PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[old blue]

Standard.

Are you expecting fireworks? :-)

 

[waspish]

We got 6/10 weeks of the scummy media daily making shitloads from clicks on this haven't we!?

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

I asked someone I know at the club what the mood was like now that the case has finally started, and he said no-one is even really talking about it, which is hopefully a sign of supreme confidence. There doesn't seem to be any emergency contingency plans being drawn up, or people fearing for their jobs or anything like that, just business as usual. Given what's at stake, namely an existential threat to the club, you'd expect there to be a bit more concern if they truly feared the possibility of a guilty verdict.

It's hard not to be concerned, especially as a fan. That said I can't see how we can be found guilty of the majority of the more serious charges simply because we have already been cleared by CAS.

 

[KS55]

I’ve always assumed that as long as he’s giving us the best possible representation, his reputation is not really impacted by whether we win or not. Don’t good lawyers take on cases they may lose all the time?

And it looks like he has been on a retainer at City. He couldn’t walk away, even if he wanted to. He’s up for it.

 

[Damanino]

cant wait for the PL and media trying to slip Chelsea verdict under the carpet in the meantime. that is coming out sooner ideally than our verdict in the 115 case, wonder how media will portray that and the asterisks against any Chelsea trophies since Abra's time wrongdoings.

 

[Lowtower]

Why aren't they wearing our home kit?

 

[waspish]

No, it's actually the PL who do that, as do all the various national associations for their clubs.

Yep like the PL allowed 40m Covid money to the rags!

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Surprised @tolmie's hairdoo is not playing. Has he got a brain injury?

At the poodle parlour, getting the curls done

 

[waspish]

Imagine if this things on live TV like in the USA? I wouldn't get any work done whatsoever.

Imagine this thread?

Well it's like that now but through X by the media rehashing everyday one way narrative for the next 6 weeks

 

[BlueMonkey79]

Jsut ask yourselves one question.

Would the club be spending millions on re developing the stadium if they had a whiff that we may be on dodgy ground.

Construction would have been the first thing that would have stopped. No way would the owner risk losing pointless millions, if he thought we were in danger of getting relegated, banned or whatever else is on the table.

 

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

His reputation is unlikely to take a hit. Each case is unique and it's never really as clear cut as win or lose. Simon Jordan says we lost the UEFA case with CAS remember! I would expect the calmness within City (based on the rumours) to be because Pannick has advised on each and every charge and its chance of success/failure. He'll have advised them on how to manage the process with the PL from day 1. He knows how to argue a point, which case law to rely upon, which words to use and all the tricks in the book which is why he costs so much.

The failure to cooperate is going to hit us. I can't see how it wouldn't. Similarly to CAS, you have to cooperate with a sporting body in order for it to carry out its duty. We'll have arguments around why we didn't, but I would expect us to get short shrift and be fined. Again, I'd anticipate Pannick has a fair amount of evidence to justify why we didn't cooperate and, if it gets to the sanction stage, why it should be a financial and not sporting penalty.

Being cleared of all charges is a 6-0 win over the rags.
Being cleared of all but the non-cooperation and getting a fine is a 6-1 win. You celebrate both the same!

I would imagine the failing to co-operate ones are going to be harder to get off. I would have thought that was either we have or we haven’t. Saying that, this is why we pay millions to these lawyers.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

What's all this about Jaber Mohamed paying 30 mill to city on behalf of etisalat? The Independent seem to think it's a big deal.

Miggles getting over excited. I think uber-cretin Piers Moron tried to make issue out of the same point in that shite anti-City expose he sneezed out last year, only for ex-Arsenal chairman David Dein to piss all over his chips by firmly declaring it ‘not a smoking gun!’

 

[wolviedinho]

His reputation is unlikely to take a hit. Each case is unique and it's never really as clear cut as win or lose. Simon Jordan says we lost the UEFA case with CAS remember! I would expect the calmness within City (based on the rumours) to be because Pannick has advised on each and every charge and its chance of success/failure. He'll have advised them on how to manage the process with the PL from day 1. He knows how to argue a point, which case law to rely upon, which words to use and all the tricks in the book which is why he costs so much.

The failure to cooperate is going to hit us. I can't see how it wouldn't. Similarly to CAS, you have to cooperate with a sporting body in order for it to carry out its duty. We'll have arguments around why we didn't, but I would expect us to get short shrift and be fined. Again, I'd anticipate Pannick has a fair amount of evidence to justify why we didn't cooperate and, if it gets to the sanction stage, why it should be a financial and not sporting penalty.

Being cleared of all charges is a 6-0 win over the rags.
Being cleared of all but the non-cooperation and getting a fine is a 6-1 win. You celebrate both the same!

Trial of the century?

Ruination of a great club?

Irrefutable evidence?

Costs running into hundred of millions?

Titles stripped?

Mansour and Abu Dhabi name ruined?

Police banging at the door?

£5k per hour is not enough.

Fall out will have to hit him in some way?

In fairness? He didn’t look to bothered -:)

 

[ballbag]

Miggles getting over excited. I think uber-cretin Piers Moron tried to make issue out of the same point in that shite anti-City expose he sneezed out last year, only for ex-Arsenal chairman David Dein to piss all over his chips by firmly declaring it ‘not a smoking gun!’

So Miguel is basing his whole doom and gloom outcome on a load of bollocks proved already to be a load of bollocks? But he's still not letting it go?

That's SO unlike the dwarf ****.

 

[DelToro]

Why aren't they wearing our home kit?

It’s our 5th away kit.

 

[KS55]

I thought he drove a Lamborghini....?

He drives nothing. A flunkie does that while the good sheik sits back and checks his bank account.

 

[Bald fraud]

We got 6/10 weeks of the scummy media daily making shitloads from clicks on this haven't we!?

They must be fucking creaming their kecks the wankers!

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Could end up like the OJ Simpson trial
Ederson tries to put on a pair of keepers gloves and they don't fit.

 

[Gordyola]

So called legal expert from Liverpool University interviewed on BBC Radio Scotland this morning when asked to explain the charges against City started by explaining that City were trying to avoid the EPL regulations about keeping losses below £105M over three seasons!!!!
Hope the legal minds on the independent panel have a bit better idea on what the case is all about

Kieran Maguire Spouting shite again claimed City were owned by a sovereign wealth fund on BBC FiveLive earlier Not repeated it since I text them asking them to check the facts

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

I would imagine the failing to co-operate ones are going to be harder to get off. I would have thought that was either we have or we haven’t. Saying that, this is why we pay millions to these lawyers.

The mitigation will be the same as UEFA. Why should we co-operate with an organisation that has carried out a smear campaign against us? If the PL was professional it would have been rigidly impartial. It is supposed to act for ALL clubs. It has acted in bad faith all the way through. Just last week the official PL Comms Office attacked its own selected panel over the Leicester case. That is totally unethical.