PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

BamberBridgeBlue said:
I can’t help thinking this is the beginning of the end of football (for me). We go into this hearing with a no win scenario all round. Half of the Premier League teams are American owned and just want to milk the “product” for all its worth. If they can’t dominate the Premier League they’ll destroy it by walking to a European Super League, which ironically is in its inaugural season starting midweek. Football is on a precipice. The harshest sentence they dare impose IF we are found to have breached rules is a large points deduction ensuring relegation. Appeals aside, if we accept the decision we are so well run we’ll be back after a season and challenging again. That won’t be enough for the red cartel yanks.
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Don’t worry when the red cartel realise they can’t have their way the US owners will sell up. At least that is Soccernomics prediction. Our owners can wait this out theirs can’t. We are playing a very long game.
 
BamberBridgeBlue said:
I can’t help thinking this is the beginning of the end of football (for me). We go into this hearing with a no win scenario all round. Half of the Premier League teams are American owned and just want to milk the “product” for all its worth. If they can’t dominate the Premier League they’ll destroy it by walking to a European Super League, which ironically is in its inaugural season starting midweek. Football is on a precipice. The harshest sentence they dare impose IF we are found to have breached rules is a large points deduction ensuring relegation. Appeals aside, if we accept the decision we are so well run we’ll be back after a season and challenging again. That won’t be enough for the red cartel yanks.
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If they manage to get rid of us. New rules will be put in place to make sure we never come back
 
bluemc said:
Our "local" paper has not had City representation for a long time. The last person we had giving us a fair crack was Stuart Brennan, and he was a rag! Although to be fair he tended to be pretty impartial in his reporting, but since he left it's a paper written by rags, for rags. And the website is a mess!
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That’s why traditional media & papers are dying & fan media is taking over, we have options now and can filter out the bias and gaslighting of the “City correspondent” types
 
Bald fraud said:
If they manage to get rid of us. New rules will be put in place to make sure we never come back
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Absolutely this. Look how they've constantly changed the rules both here and in Europe to stop us and we've still been the most successful club. They are terrified of us and rightly so. If they find us guilty and we get royally shafted the clamour will be, "We can never allow this to happen again for the good of football." Of course that will mean the red cartel dominating again, with Spurs and Chelsea allowed to make up the numbers to make it look like a competition. The rest can get to fuck.
 
old blue said:
Did they not do that with our neighbours twice. A game postponed because they found a fake bomb and secondly when the brain dead hordes piled into the swamp and proceeded to smash the place up, causing at least a pounds worth of damage. My memory is not what it was but it culminated in massive fines and points deductions. Or not.
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I guess so but I think that's a bit different to going on strike which is which is what I was replying to. I believe that no action was taken against the rags because both games were postponed on police advice due to safety concerns - I am pretty certain i have read that on this forum somewhere.
 
halfcenturyup said:
Replying to myself here but if I was Rosen I would be appointing panel members without any affiliation to any premier league club whether they have a direct or indirect interest in this case or not. Hell, any panel member who has an interest in football at all. When it comes to the verdict, City's lawyers would be on the merest suggestion of bias in the reasoning quicker than a rat up a drainpipe. I have no doubt he will be appointing the best qualified, most independent people on this of all cases. After all, the primary arguments are entirely legal, nothing to do with football at all.

What do we think?
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You are Nick Harris / Tragic Twat and I claim my £5
 
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eyalluvitt said:
That’s why traditional media & papers are dying & fan media is taking over, we have options now and can filter out the bias and gaslighting of the “City correspondent” types
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There’s a reason the establishment was outraged at the thought of Sheik Mansour owning the telegraph. I wish you were right but I think we overplay the death of the media & papers.
 
halfcenturyup said:
Replying to myself here, which is a bit weird, but if I was Rosen I would be appointing panel members without any affiliation to any premier league club whether they have a direct or indirect interest in this case or not. Hell, any panel member who has an interest in football at all. When it comes to the verdict, City's lawyers would be on the merest suggestion of bias in the reasoning quicker than a rat up a drainpipe. I have no doubt he will be appointing the best qualified, most independent people on this of all cases. After all, the primary arguments are entirely legal, nothing to do with football at all.

What do we think?
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Personally I think the PL want this dragging out as long as possible. It damages the City brand at this crucial time whilst Pep is ruining the PL. So I am half expecting them to find a further road to lead this down.

So any action, including bringing in biased judgement, is what they would do.

But I see everything through a political lens rather than actual legalalities. Or legalities.
 
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