PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Grassland Blue said:
Correct.
I believe, as I always have, that City will prevail as right is on our side.
Will it be a "pyrrhic" victory though?
That scenario needs to be avoided at all costs.
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I think that when we win, if the PL sack Masters and maybe a few key execs (Head of Legal etc) we will mend our fences with the new regime. There has to be a ‘body count’ though to show the world the PL was wrong and close the matter. This has been too big, too serious and too painful for us just to let it pass.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
It is pretty clear he is staying at least one more season after this. I don’t believe he will leave till the court case is sorted and he wants to win the first proper Club World Cup next Summer.
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In this club World cup are other nations teams (those other than UEFA) equally financially hampered by FFP & PSR, if not, how is it a level playing field?
 
PPT said:
Pep has said he will decide his future later in the year.
November: The charges get thrown out. Pep immediately announces he's staying for
another year. Boiled piss all around on an epic scale.
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March - the verdict will be announced and we will be deducted just enough points for arse to win the league......

Call me cynical - lol.
 
Grassland Blue said:
March - the verdict will be announced and we will be deducted just enough points for arse to win the league......

Call me cynical - lol.
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If they don't relegate us for using the wrong shade of white on the pitch markings there will be 8 teams that will form a super league within a month :)
 
Grassland Blue said:
I think that there is some regulation, resulting from the previous attempt to do so, discouraging that.
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Rules can change, obviously if the cartel see fit to need to change it.

I can see the football authorities killing their own brand week on week, we had the best brand on the planet but the merry tinkerers don't want competition they want a show.

I know the new football watchdog is against the European Super League but a few brown packets of magic and it's back on.
 
Anyone else surprised the Chelsea investigation is already coming to an end?

Considering, they know it happened over multiple years(back to 2012 at the very least) and we know the PL went back to near the very start of Sheikh Mansour's era for the City investigation(2009). What does it say, that:

a) They haven't dragged their feet with this one and got straight to putting a case together? Unlike the City investigation.

or

b) They have half arsed the investigation and going to treat something very serious(which City would absolutely be fucked over, if they were in their shoes) as a minor breach and somehow claim there was no sporting advantage?

For answer a), no we aren't by the bullshit excuse that City, didn't co-operate because City say they did co-operate this time and in any case if the PL felt they weren't it doesn't take 5 years to decide that.

For answer b), the parallels to City's allegations are easy to draw. All the end points are there, how the allegations arrive there is just via a different route. Getting players they wouldn't have had, sporting advantages from said players, rivals losing out, multiple PL titles and multiple CL's gained(and CL money).
 
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mexico1970 said:
Rules can change, obviously if the cartel see fit to need to change it.

I can see the football authorities killing their own brand week on week, we had the best brand on the planet but the merry tinkerers don't want competition they want a show.

I know the new football watchdog is against the European Super League but a few brown packets of magic and it's back on.
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I like your user name - wish I had thought of it.
I agree with your comments too.
But for pity's sake - don't enter brown packet territory!!
We've had enough crap about similar things hurled our way as it is!!
Haha.
 
Can I post a screen shot with no link of a new Tweet on X by Magic Hat, yes or no?
 
I was sagely informed by a United fan today that…

City have accepted full guilt and are instead working on arguing that Sheikh Mansour has plausible deniability

We are delaying frantically until 6 November as that is apparently some kind of cut-off date for being sued by other clubs

So that’s nice to know.
 
leithblue said:
I was sagely informed by a United fan today that…

City have accepted full guilt and are instead working on arguing that Sheikh Mansour has plausible deniability

We are delaying frantically until 6 November as that is apparently some kind of cut-off date for being sued by other clubs

So that’s nice to know.
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That’s the statute of limitations date. But it may not apply when fraud is alleged. In any case one PL club cannot sue another due to PL rules. The procedure is an independent commission. Unless I’ve missed something, we already have one which has the power to order City to pay damages to other clubs.
 
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leithblue said:
I was sagely informed by a United fan today that…

City have accepted full guilt and are instead working on arguing that Sheikh Mansour has plausible deniability

We are delaying frantically until 6 November as that is apparently some kind of cut-off date for being sued by other clubs

So that’s nice to know.
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Metalartin said:
Anyone else surprised the Chelsea investigation is already coming to an end?

Considering, they know it happened over multiple years(back to 2012 at the very least) and we know the PL went back to near the very start of Sheikh Mansour's era for the City investigation(2009). What does it say, that:

a) They haven't dragged their feet with this one and got straight to putting a case together? Unlike the City investigation.

or

b) They have half arsed the investigation and going to treat something very serious(which City would absolutely be fucked over, if they were in their shoes) as a minor breach and somehow claim there was no sporting advantage?

For answer a), no we aren't by the bullshit excuse that City, didn't co-operate because City say they did co-operate this time and in any case if the PL felt they weren't it doesn't take 5 years to decide that.

For answer b), the parallels to City's allegations are easy to draw. All the end points are there, how the allegations arrive there is just via a different route. Getting players they wouldn't have had, sporting advantages from said players, rivals losing out, multiple PL titles and multiple CL's gained(and CL money).
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Have I missed something? Have Chelsea been charged?
 
leithblue said:
I was sagely informed by a United fan today that…

City have accepted full guilt and are instead working on arguing that Sheikh Mansour has plausible deniability

We are delaying frantically until 6 November as that is apparently some kind of cut-off date for being sued by other clubs

So that’s nice to know.
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It really makes you wonder just how many of their 659million loyal fuckwits have serious mental issues, and how many have not received treatment.
 
M18CTID said:
Have I missed something? Have Chelsea been charged?
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No, just an answer from Richard Masters on the talkSport interview recently, where he said they are close to wrapping up the investigation already, in so many words. Here it is:



A lot of Chelsea fans seem to think they'll be fine because it was under a different ownership. That has never been a valid excuse in the past and it will easily be torn to shreds, if the PL tries that one, given how they've went after City. Self reporting shouldn't be a huge factor either, I imagine the PL had to do their due diligence just as much as ClearLake did before the takeover was approved. If they saw too much, I wouldn't be surprised if the PL were the ones who told them to report it.
 
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leithblue said:
I was sagely informed by a United fan today that…

City have accepted full guilt and are instead working on arguing that Sheikh Mansour has plausible deniability

We are delaying frantically until 6 November as that is apparently some kind of cut-off date for being sued by other clubs

So that’s nice to know.
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I hope you reminded him that he was a know nothing prick.
 
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