PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

I am genuinely intrigued how the process plays out.

Would they start by hearing the case on the most serious charges in the hope that by winning these everything else naturally falls apart or would they start by looking at say the Mancini contract and the wording of the rule.
If the PL accept that the Leicester appeal sets a precident then do the PL agree to not challenge those charges?
It then makes you wonder about the APT case, if we know that we have won specific points in that case does it follow that the panel dismiss any charges directly related to anything we may be been succesful in?
 
foggy1974 said:
If someone comes on here and backs up their argument by saying I've got lawyers in the family. Do you think:-

a) that convinces us & we're doomed
or
b) they're bullshitting & haven't got a clue, probably a rival fan with a victim persuasion.
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See my previous post about "I have a "friend" who is a "lawyer" who says:".
 
The perfect fumble said:
"You are taking it all a bit seriously" is the educated man's version of "calm down, calm down".

I know you've not courted this but many City fans, rightly or wrongly, have invested a lot in you. With the club so tight lipped they're desperate to hear someone get the counter argument out there, and whether you like it or not, many see you as the man, but you're not the man, you've never pretended to be, regardless of Jordan's "City acolyte" bullshit.

As you've stated on many occasions, you've no inside knowledge of what City are up to. Clearly your experience and training make you a better interpreter of events than the bloke on the street, and you are to be applauded for making the wider public aware that the PL have a job on their hands proving these very serious charges, but you must know that along with the very real good you do you're spun to high heaven for negative headlines.

You might say, and with some justification, that these negative headlines would exist regardless of anything you do and you'd be right, but they wouldn't be spun with the byline "says finance expert Stefan Borson".

So am I asking you to desist? No, more power to your elbow, the red top client media will do what they do regardless and red top social media will do their thing as well, I gather you're going to be talking with the Mancunian Way soon and I'll look forward to that. But Redmen TV? If you were going to take that gig you must've known how they'd spin it, so a little push back on the loaded questions would've been welcomed.

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How severe could Man City's punishments be?​

I suppose we should be grateful for the question mark.
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What if I actually do mean I think you are taking me going on Redmen too seriously? Because that’s what I think. I mean it’s, at worst, neutral in its impact. There isn’t a single person seeing this thumbnail whose view will be changed. There maybe some that watch because of it and learn it really all isn’t as simple as they’d been led to believe. With respect, I don’t think I’m going to change my approach and sometimes maybe it will go wrong. I don’t think it’s very serious either way.

PS have you actually watched the video? Be honest
 
kevlardog said:
I have a few lawyers in my family and it's not that uncommon to take your time building a ecase you perceive to be good. Wether it's actually any good is a separate thing. But just because it took long isn't necessarily telling of anything.
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It is uncommon for an entity to take four years to build a case based on rule breaches, only to lay the charges with a whole raft of mistakes.
 
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slbsn said:
What if I actually do mean I think you are taking me going on Redmen too seriously? Because that’s what I think. I mean it’s, at worst, neutral in its impact. There isn’t a single person seeing this thumbnail whose view will be changed. There maybe some that watch because of it and learn it really all isn’t as simple as they’d been led to believe. With respect, I don’t think I’m going to change my approach and sometimes maybe it will go wrong. I don’t think it’s very serious either way.

PS have you actually watched the video? Be honest
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Yes I've watched it.

Either ways keep it up, there's more than one way to skin a cat or a liver bird for that matter.
 
kevlardog said:
I actually am not as optimistic as most people here. I think we'll got done for some but not all charges. And I'm not referring to non-cooperation. I find it incredibly unlikely that they've dragged this on for as long as they have, and without dropping any charges, to not have high confidence some things will stick.
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Just to add to this negative post of yours.

You joined in 2023.

All your posts are about the 115.

Do you not watch the team play? No posts about us making history winning 4 in a row. Nothing about haaland ripping it up.

You just stand out, do you get me? It's odd behaviour you only posting about the alleged charges, you haven't put anything on related to us playing or us winning things or hating the red mardarse clubs.
Fair comment yeah?
 
KS55 said:
The Times is most guilty; it still claims to be a paper of record. The red tops can be forgiven a tiny bit since clicks is all they want. They are hardly NEWSpapers any more.
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The Times is just a more upmarket version of the Sun.
The same stories, but written and presented differently.
 
manimanc said:
Just to add to this negative post of yours.

You joined in 2023.

All your posts are about the 115.

Do you not watch the team play? No posts about us making history winning 4 in a row. Nothing about haaland ripping it up.

You just stand out, do you get me? It's odd behaviour you only posting about the alleged charges, you haven't put anything on related to us playing or us winning things or hating the red mardarse clubs.
Fair comment yeah?
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Better off ignoring him or her pal.
He/She could simply be a pessimistic blue.

Or there again a sad act pretending to be a blue to shit stir,not worth the time either way.
 
When all this shit’s over and the charges are not proven, I wonder if Stefan will be offered the same platforms to discuss the independent panel’s findings.

Mind you, Redmen and Talkshite will have to form an orderly queue behind Sly and the BBC’s saturated coverage of our irrefutable evidence and much anticipated exoneration. Stand by your beds Stefan and Big Steve.

Sorry all you Eastenders and Masterchef fans.
 
kevlardog said:
Not at all, I just think that all of this is based on the facts and info we know so far. We do not have any of the new info/evidence the PL will use (if they even have any), so I'm hesitant to build confidence without any knowledge of their new "findings".
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Did you go to:
The Wembley Gillingham game
The QPR Agueroooo game
the Aston Villa game when we came back from 2-0 down to win the keague
Wembley v rags in our treble year
Istanbul - (no comments from you about the transport issues)
West Ham game when we won PL for 4th time

If so , where are your celebratory comments? Strange that ….
 
kevlardog said:
I actually am not as optimistic as most people here. I think we'll got done for some but not all charges. And I'm not referring to non-cooperation. I find it incredibly unlikely that they've dragged this on for as long as they have, and without dropping any charges, to not have high confidence some things will stick.
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Man or mouse?
 
Broken Biscuits said:
When all this shit’s over and the charges are not proven, I wonder if Stefan will be offered the same platforms to discuss the independent panel’s findings.

Mind you, Redmen and Talkshite will have to form an orderly queue behind Sly and the BBC’s saturated coverage of our irrefutable evidence and much anticipated exoneration. Stand by your beds Stefan and Big Steve.

Sorry all you Eastenders and Masterchef fans.
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We should put out a documentary on it. Would be beautiful.
 
CC1 said:
Did you go to:
The Wembley Gillingham game
The QPR Agueroooo game
the Aston Villa game when we came back from 2-0 down to win the keague
Wembley v rags in our treble year
Istanbul - (no comments from you about the transport issues)
West Ham game when we won PL for 4th time

If so , where are your celebratory comments? Strange that ….
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Tbf, he only joined after all those events happened!
 
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