PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

Well done Leicester

 

[Asa's left peg]

PL - ' yes, any club can go to appeal and we will abide by any decision '.

Sky, BBC, newspapers- 'judges enemies of the people and let Foxes off'.
Clockwork.

 

[TonyM]

My third

Chelsea, City and Leicester in that order.

Well obviously Chelsea first.

 

[Metalartin]

Unless I'm missing something the biggest take away is that the independent commission aren't afraid to side against the PL. Which is hopefully a good sign.

As for the approach LCFC used to defeat the charges, it would still be described as City getting off on a technicality again, if City attempted to use it for for the Mancini payment or the false accounting accusations. So I'd rather that be last resort after proving: No related parties paid any of the sponsorship money after all. Mancini did provide the services he was paid for to a club in the UAE and there was no reason this should have gone on Manchester City's accounts. Have at it with the non-cooperation bollocks though.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Cigarette?

Not in a beer garden, having a shag is alright, just don't light up after.

 

[cheekybids]

‘Escape’ is an injudicious choice of word from the sinfully brain-dead ****. Another fucking fraud who is commenting on things he doesn’t understand.

Trying to ruin clubs by using rules & regulations & then crying clubs use rules & regulations as a defence. Its fucking mental.

 

[cheekybids]

there’s a song in there somewhere

I think that falls under a ‘tragedy chant’

 

[cheekybids]

Well, well.

I'll tell you what. After the refusal of the clubs to change the rules following Chelsea's hotel nonsense, and after this, if the tribunal rules at all in favour of City on the APT case and the PL is found to have applied illegal rules and has to change them it would be an embarrassment to the PL like never before. The APT verdict suddenly becomes very important.

How is that "looking tough" to hold back an independent regulator looking now, Mr Masters?

What a mess.

Added to the fact the generous allowances given to he Rags underlines corruption.

Clubs charged up to now Leicester, Everton, Forest & City & none have yank ownership. Curious & curiouser!

 

[bumbleblue]

Added to the fact the generous allowances given to he Rags underlines corruption.

Clubs charged up to now Leicester, Everton, Forest & City & none have yank ownership. Curious & curiouser!

And all have or had owners willing to invest, potentially pushing the red cunts plus spurs further behind.

 

[Winchester]

And all have or had owners willing to invest, potentially pushing the red cunts plus spurs further behind.

Yes,
The plot doth thicken

 

[ufo]

Cocks out.

You are kyle walker and i claim my chicken

 

[ufo]

I think that falls under a ‘tragedy chant’

Im singing that song when we get cleared drunk and cocks out

 

[cheekybids]

Im singing that song when we get cleared drunk and cocks out

In the fountain ;)

 

[blueju]

14, from what I can recall (although I think that includes alleged undisclosed payments to Yaya Toure as well).

We couldn’t declare cake on our tax return?

 

[blueju]

If our team was shite and languishing in 10th for the past 10 years none of this Der Spiegel/UEFA/115/Shite press would have happened.

Fact.

And we hadn’t landed the worlds greatest manager ahead of the entitled ones.

 

[blueju]

Maybe they left the back doors in the rules for their golden teams to use if they had to?

Is that why the rags are desperately trying to get relegated?

 

[halfcenturyup]

Interestingly (to me, at least), @petrusha and I had a chat a while ago about how poorly written some of the PL rules were. Not in this context, but that makes it worse, not better.

Interestingly 2 (and only to me), I was writing last night about Mancini in my great tome on the PL's allegations. I quoted the actual rule the club is alleged to have breached and literally just wrote "the wording is important". Scary *Twilight Zone music*

 

[cheekybids]

Interestingly (to me, at least), @petrusha and I had a chat a while ago about how poorly written some of the PL rules were. Not in this context, but that makes it worse, not better.

Interestingly 2 (and only to me), I was writing last night about Mancini in my great tome on the PL's allegations. I quoted the actual rule the club is alleged to have breached and literally just wrote "the wording is important". Scary *Twilight Zone music*

After we’ve wiped the floor with them there should be a full & open enquiry.

I’d love to see Masters questioned about the motivations he had as the CEO to try & ruin clubs whilst stating he aim was to ensure clubs don’t get ruined.

 

[Newman Noggs]

This "Independent Commission", whose decision Leicester were appealing. Is this the same "independent commission", albeit with different members, we're in front of in September ? If so, that they ignored such an obvious flaw in the PL charges and went along with the PL's "interpretation" of the rules doesn't fill me with optimism, at least for the September hearing.

 

[halfcenturyup]

@slbsn Does this Leicester ruling put paid to any attempt by the PL of charging Chelsea, Everton, Villa et al for acting in bad faith, as the PL had threatened to do, for their end of season "swap" deals, or, for that matter for Chelsea's non-footballing asset sales? After all, there is nothing in the rules to stop them specifically, and the "spirit of the rules" argument seems to have gone out of the window.

Those swap deals can't be picked up by APT either, I don't think because the rules were so specifically written with a 5% common shareholding rule deliberately to exclude clubs in the PL transacting with each other?

It seems to me the PL is in a bit of a mess credibility-wise. Hopefully, City can heap some more pressure on with a favourable verdict in the APT case.