PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Will anyone hazard a guess as to why the hearing start date is being kept a gaurded secret. I cannot imagine why it is so important or indeed what purpose it serves.
 
Iassel said:
I mean that one is simple to answer - Adam Lewis will have advised them that in his opinion there was enough to proceed with. On Mancini & Fordham that’s understandable, even if they’re ultimately nothing burgers.

The most important question is why they decided to proceed on the most serious sponsorship allegations that - barring some gamechanging documents that even if they existed, City wouldn’t have provided to them - there is almost certainly no path to success for the PL.

A cynic might suggest that with the delay between the charge sheet being drawn up and released, they were still hunting for something more cogent on the sponsorship stuff, as Mancini & Fordham aren’t gamechangers, but ultimately panicked into pulling the trigger early once the whitepaper on regulators came out..

Certainly if the PL can’t land the serious charges this case will be discussed by Business MBA’s for a longtime to come as a what not to do.
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If you throw enough shit at the wall some of it might stick.
 
Iassel said:
I mean that one is simple to answer - Adam Lewis will have advised them that in his opinion there was enough to proceed with. On Mancini & Fordham that’s understandable, even if they’re ultimately nothing burgers.

The most important question is why they decided to proceed on the most serious sponsorship allegations that - barring some gamechanging documents that even if they existed, City wouldn’t have provided to them - there is almost certainly no path to success for the PL.

A cynic might suggest that with the delay between the charge sheet being drawn up and released, they were still hunting for something more cogent on the sponsorship stuff, as Mancini & Fordham aren’t gamechangers, but ultimately panicked into pulling the trigger early once the whitepaper on regulators came out..

Certainly if the PL can’t land the serious charges this case will be discussed by Business MBA’s for a longtime to come as a what not to do.
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Personally, I believe the PL chose to take the action they did irrespective of Lewis's advice (which I can only think would have been "you aren't going to prove the main body of these allegations with the evidence you have and the counter-evidence you know the club will have"). They have over-stretched to their own detriment, imo, but, again, what we don't know is why they chose to do that. It may have been simple case "house-cleaning", or it may have been something sinister, or many things in between.

I never bought the IR argument. Bringing a very serious case you aren't going to win against a member is the most stupid way for the PL to show anyone they can regulate anything themselves. But the announcement was clearly rushed, so, if not the IR, just what exactly?
 
jamielowndes said:
Yeah, the people who think there is a secret underground cartel of all the other big clubs and the PL collaborating together to plot our downfall are the rational ones.
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Well you have to wonder don't you?

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