PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

projectriver said:
Reluctantly jotted these thoughts down
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In view of your excellent thread, I think it will be nigh-on impossible for the IC to find that a level of conspiracy took place to the extent that at least half-a-dozen executives lied to auditors, CAS, the FA and UEFA. There is no doubt in my mind that Etihad and Etisalat form the most serious of the allegations against us, so the Premier League will almost certainly require further compelling evidence to what was offered at CAS. Emails alone will surely not meet the standard of proof required.

Much is uncertain, but the careless handling of the bringing of charges against the club (foregoing the courtesy of informing the club before going to the press, coinciding with the government white paper on independent football regulation, stipulating breaches from the wrong handbook, etc), suggests to me that no such additional evidence exists.
 
projectriver said:
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That's half the story, isn't it? The first hurdle the PL has to pass is presenting cogent evidence in support of the alleged breaches.

Then they have the second hurdle you explained: trying to make the case that executives of three or four companies are lying in the club's counter evidence.

Seems to me, simply put, that the PL is screwed in both ventures?
 
projectriver said:
Just can't be arsed really because just watch the numbers on this vs the original. But I had a thought so I did it quickly because I think it makes an important point.
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Ah. That’s understandable - initially thought you were ”reluctant” because it was bad news somehow!
 
abu13 said:
Fucking hell, the Thread on our charges over on the Caf is a sight to behold.
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Thanks for that, they really are a desperate lot for sure.
Like the dippers they are of the opinion that if they get rid of us they will dominate again, fuckers finished 8th so a big turnaround required.
 
ballbag said:
The Lance Armstrong analogy is the biggest wail of desperation and straw-clutching I've seen. Its another throwaway comment masking how shit other clubs are ran compared to us. Nothing more than that.
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It doesn't even make sense, when there are teams who have spent more than us... It'd make sense if they meant there were other cyclist taking far more drugs than Armstrong, but he won anyway!
 
Churchlawtonblue said:
Every one seems to pull the mental health card these days. It should not be used as an excuse for unacceptable vindictive behaviour. Especially when you see the effects nonsense posted on social media has on others, including our fan base.
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Precisely. He doesn't give one single fuck about the people his raving bile affects.
 
halfcenturyup said:
That's half the story, isn't it? The first hurdle the PL has to pass is presenting cogent evidence in support of the alleged breaches.

Then they have the second hurdle you explained: trying to make the case that executives of three or four companies are lying in the club's counter evidence.

Seems to me, simply put, that the PL is screwed in both ventures?
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When you think one in four people on the planet are United fans you’d think there’d be at least one whistleblower out of all the people that would have to be involved in this kind of ‘fraud’…
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
Our rival fans have gone so far down the rabbit hole that will NEVER recover if we aare not stripped of titles.

If at the end of this we are left as treble, 4peat, record breakers they might just give up on football. Here's hoping.
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And it's hysterical since the chances of us being stripped of titles are nil.

Idiots who keep banging on about the charges really do not understand WHY teams have been stripped of titles in the past.

Juve for example were stripped of titles for match fixing. Very different, and much more serious, than what City are accused of doing.

Pretty much every unbiased analyst who understands the PL rules and possible sanctions said it would be playing in a lower division at worst - and even that assumes City are found guilty on the more serious charges.
 
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