PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Checked this figure with a commercial silk the other day and he said it seemed high. About half that by his reckoning, which is around where I guessed it would be.

It could be right, there’s billions at stake tbf, but I think it’s likely to be lower than £5k an hour fwiw.
Well that’s not fair on the lad.
Butties cost £13 a pop down there, hope he’s took a packed lunch.
 
We’d lose the day trippers who spend £200 in the club shop (aka Soriano’s target audience).

We’d lose the YouTubers who bag tickets for any game they like and film themselves talking into their precious iPads for 90 minutes.

We’d potentially regain some of the hardcore, disillusioned legacy fans who have been priced out/ground down by the ‘matchday experience’ in recent years and understandably voted with their feet.

That being said, hopefully we’ll never know because we will tear the PL a new one!
How many you tubers go to the games.
 
The more I think about this case the more confident I am. City have ploughed huge sums into the club since the charges and are completely relaxed and confident.

I go back to Stefan's early appearance on TS when he mentioned the Enron scandal. It sticks in the mind because it was an extremely rare case of fraud, which makes the allegations against City unlikely from the off.

Then you have the fact that CAS have determined a lot of this in our favour already.

Then you have the law itself and burden of proof. Will hacked emails (I don't believe they have anything else) be sufficient to convince a panel that audited accounts were fraudulent? And what about when senior City officials testify they were lawful?
 
The more I think about this case the more confident I am. City have ploughed huge sums into the club since the charges and are completely relaxed and confident.

I go back to Stefan's early appearance on TS when he mentioned the Enron scandal. It sticks in the mind because it was an extremely rare case of fraud, which makes the allegations against City unlikely from the off.

Then you have the fact that CAS have determined a lot of this in our favour already.

Then you have the law itself and burden of proof. Will hacked emails (I don't believe they have anything else) be sufficient to convince a panel that audited accounts were fraudulent? And what about when senior City officials testify they were lawful?

And every single sponsor implicated has continued to conceal and lie is a big call? Plus questioning the accountants and that other the likes of Etihad as well?
 
I guess it's possible that the 3-man commission had looked at the evidence and come back with the view that it would be a 10 or even 12-point deduction based on the evidence they'd seen so far. And that to save the huge expense of a 3-month hearing, and probably an appeal, the PL were prepared to settle for less, in order to avoid the expense.

It's also possible that they were told that it was the IC's view that it was only 50/50 that they'd land the main allegations, and they wanted to try to get a result without that uncertainty, and one that satisfied the cartel as well.

It could also be possible that they did this entirely off their own bat, having discussed with the cartel what they'd consider the minimum adequate outcome.

We don't know, and we'll only know when the IC makes its findings known.
Would the IC members really see all the evidence from both sides before the hearing, surely that’s the purpose of the hearing. I can imagine the PL legal team telling the PL that on the basis of the evidence it’s what they believe
 
There is another point about the determination, namely that the wider consequences will absolutely be in the minds of the decision makers.

An unpopular, unexpected, controversial decision that has huge geopolitical consequences might provide a path of less resistance for the panel than that of a popular, expected, uncontroversial decision that does not.

The power of the red cartel in the ultimate outcome of this process is hugely overstated on this thread.
 
Pannik is a FOC he won't have a clue about new technology. :-)
In defence of FOC a lot of the earliest adopters and developers of computer technology have died a ripe old age Tim Berners Lee is 69 he developed the internet William Henry Gates is 69 both a year older than our esteemed Lord
But I know what you mean
 

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