PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[ChicagoBlue]

I’m loving how all the know-nothings are already pontificating on the punishment!

“Relegation!”
“100 point deduction!”
“Kicked out of ALL competitions!”
“Sent to bed with no supper!”

What a sad statement about how the hordes are so desperate for it all to be true and City get some comeuppance, because, well, “they DIDN’T win by playing the best football ever seen in British football and, erm, we are all a bit jealous of their success!”

Personally, I think I’m going to wait to see how big the fine is for the “non-cooperation” portion of the 115 before I lose a wink of sleep over hundreds of millions of dollars of potential corporate fraud for the last decade!

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[oldius]

I’m loving how all the know-nothings are already pontificating on the punishment!

“Relegation!”
“100 point deduction!”
“Kicked out of ALL competitions!”
“Sent to bed with no supper!”

What a sad statement about how the hordes are so desperate for it all to be true and City get some comeuppance, because, well, “they DIDN’T win by playing the best football ever seen in British football and, erm, we are all a bit jealous of their success!”

Personally, I think I’m going to wait to see how big the fine is for the “non-cooperation” portion of the 115 before I lose a wink of sleep over hundreds of millions of dollars of potential corporate fraud for the last decade!

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Once you realise that their content is ONLY designed to elicit a click, the content becomes very obvious. There is no interest in objectivity, nor factual content, just what will act as the best trigger. Outrageous statements about extreme punishments and the presumption of guilt act EXACTLY in that way for the swathes of angry and embittered fans of clubs who have suffered in the wake of our success.

 

[Shirley]

Pannick is an Arsenal fan

So is Starmer

 

[Oldham Exile]

................And I expect Pannick will be fucking brilliant at it. It usually helps if you’re far smarter than the person you’re asking questions of, which in relation to Masters will unquestionably be the case.

I imagine that he is absolutely shitting himself as the date for his face-off with Pannick draws nearer

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I imagine that he is absolutely shitting himself has the date for his face-off with Pannick draws nearer

Assuming he’s a witness. It’s perfectly conceivable he isn’t. Difficult to tell in the absence of any particulars around the evidential basis for the charges.

 

[Fordyboy46]

The media play a blinder when they print stories about this case, not one is printed in a positive outcome for City it's all about the worst possible situation we could find ourselves in. Like everyone else says it's pure clickbait for the red gullible twats so they can go into work with a tiny hard on believing everything they read

 

[mancboy]

Assuming he’s a witness. It’s perfectly conceivable he isn’t. Difficult to tell in the absence of any particulars around the evidential basis for the charges.

I would think seeing as he mumbled and fumbled his way through the government enquiry it would be remiss not to call him.

 

[Tueartsoverhead kick]

Assuming he’s a witness. It’s perfectly conceivable he isn’t. Difficult to tell in the absence of any particulars around the evidential basis for the charges.

I bet if he is, he will call in sick with a note from his mum :)

 

[slbsn]

Can you (or anyone else) say roughly how much we are accused of putting in that we were not allowed t0?

Are we talking £5million, £25 million, £50 million or £100million or more?

And over how many years?

I am genuinely unclear what the quantum of our alleged offences are meant to be.

C£60-70m pa

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Doubt it. Documents won’t come alive until pored over in opening, cross examination and then in closing anyway. And the overall bundle will be huge so no chance they will have flicked through the whole of that

Surely each skeleton argument will have, at the very least, identified essential reading in advance of the hearing?

 

[mancboy]

The media play a blinder when they print stories about this case, not one is printed in a positive outcome for City it's all about the worst possible situation we could find ourselves in. Like everyone else says it's pure clickbait for the red gullible twats so they can go into work with a tiny hard on believing everything they read

i was shown one yesterday by some bellend on tiktok and his reasoning was that the pl wouldnt have gone this far unless they had something and i just said uefa did and he had nothing it, its just white noise at this point and depends whether you have the energy to taunt them and correct their stupidity.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Fair point but the Dippers, Rags and Chav's also signed up to the rules but have flagrantly breached them with very little investigation by their PL paymasters.

No argument from me on that mate.

 

[cheekybids]

Assuming he’s a witness. It’s perfectly conceivable he isn’t. Difficult to tell in the absence of any particulars around the evidential basis for the charges.

Khaldoon:” I’ll pay you £5k per day but I want that **** Masters on the stand.”
Pannick: “I’ll do him slowly over 2 days so he has to go to bed knowing what’s happening the next day.”

 

[give it to gordon]

Once City are cleared could City take action against the people behind this witchhunt ?
Why are other clubs allowed to break the rules like rags ?
Why isn't the pl doing a 4 year investigation into the other 19 clubs ?

 

[slbsn]

Surely each skeleton argument will have, at the very least, identified essential reading in advance of the hearing?

Of course but it just won’t mean much on those initial reads

 

[JASR]

The media play a blinder when they print stories about this case, not one is printed in a positive outcome for City it's all about the worst possible situation we could find ourselves in. Like everyone else says it's pure clickbait for the red gullible twats so they can go into work with a tiny hard on believing everything they read

Ah you say that, but over in the alternative facts land of red cafe,

Approx:
’the media is so far up City’s arse, they barely mention it (115), it’s getting clearer everyday which journalists are getting brown envelopes from them.’

 

[halfcenturyup]

Assuming he’s a witness. It’s perfectly conceivable he isn’t. Difficult to tell in the absence of any particulars around the evidential basis for the charges.

Having asked for all the emails, texts and Whatsapp messages in the PL's possession that mention City from 2008 onwards I would imagine it's very, very likely that Masters will be asked to explain the content of some of those, at least.

 

[GOULDYBOBS]

Hope we go for that odious prick Tebas

 

[The blue phantom]

I bet if he is, he will call in sick with a note from his mum :)

The guy is an absolute shithouse. Don't forget this is the spineless **** who refused to be at our stadium to hand the PL Trophy over in May. Sent his deputy.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

No-one is sure what the details of the allegations are, but for Etihad they are probably saying that 8 million per year of the sponsorship was paid by Etihad directly and the rest by "someone else" assumed by the PL to be ADUG, over all the years 2009/10 to 2017/18.

The Etihad sponsorship began at around 40 million a year and is now thought to be around 65 million a year, so anywhere between 30 and 55 million a year funded by ADUG over 9 years, so say 300-400 million.

Then you have any amounts for Etisalat, Aabar, ADTA they think they have on top.

Iirc, UEFA at CAS suggested 200 million, but they weren't looking at the same number of years as the PL.

Fordham is probably around £65m over 5 years, while the Mancini contract was just under £6m over 3 years.