PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Gordyola]

Hearing more noises of a super league today. Are the slapped arsed cartel lot preparing to take their ball home?

Unify League it’s been rebranded, revised so that some of the objections of its format have been removed They have approached FIFA and UEFA

 

[Metalartin]

IF we don’t spend next month that’ll be the first indication to me that it’s not gone well.

Just a reminder on the time frame on the verdict/judgement:

‘One senior legal source told The Times that the three-man panel would be acutely aware of the attention focused on the outcome of the case and would be working flat out to get their judgment out as soon as possible. That could be the end of January, according to the source, but the number of alleged rule breaches and the complexity of the case could mean that it is delayed.’

That is just when City and the PL find out on their side(and it's the end of Jan at the soonest) because at the moment, the 3 man panel are still in the process of considering all the evidence from both sides. We will likely be left in the dark until the decision report is completed and released publicly. Didn't Stefan say March or later?

What might give away the outcome would be anything leaked about an appeal. Which would happen fast from City's side. Then again, I originally thought the PL would not launch any appeal but the way those in the UK have tried to spin UEFA's possible appeal against the CAS verdict and what a mistake it was not to pursue it, I'm not sure about that anymore.

If you don't know, UEFA's own legal advice was that they could challenge but they had little chance of success. The problem City have, is the press over here are so invested that they will exert whatever influence they have or think they might have, to avoid admitting defeat(ie they will try and pressure the PL into it). A defeat for the PL would be a defeat for them, such has been their bias against City from the very beginning(zero balance, poor fact checking, poor journalism).

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Well for a start he could have come to a press conference at the start of the season and responded to the usual suspects in the same manner as he did to David Clayton
He could have also insisted that any journalist asking Pep about the allegations would be automatically banned.
Anything to prove that he was on our side.

So you’ve got doubts that Khaldoon isn’t on our side? Am I reading this right?

 

[Goro]

Fuck em all, we just give the others a head start, tomorrow is the day we start scraping back the deficit :-)
We falsely made Anorim look good when we faced Sporting, tomorrow we kick his ass lol
I know we've dropped off but people forget the amount of games our players have faced over previous seasons, not forgetting the world cup in the middle of a season!
Once the injured players return, we kick on, Oscar Bobb could be a massive returner soon!
Keep the faith guys, One thing you never do us write us off, so FUCK THE HATERS!
FUCK OTHER FANS!
& FUCK THE CHARGES!!!

That aged well

 

[wolviedinho]

It's the first time I have ever thought what if we are guilty
These last couple of months have been so strange and hard to understand even with an injury-hit squad or players burnt out or nothing left in the tank, it's been a very big drop-off and all around the club the feeling is not right.

Now the Question.. What if we are found guilty
Will the fans understand a hard punishment and be demoted, Do I even dare I say it ? trophies and titles removed from the history books and other clubs taking us to court for loss of earnings and prize money.

I feel it could end badly and Manchester City will be finished or will be so punished the damage will be terminal.
For the first time, it crossed my mind what about the FANS in all of this and where do we go, All this is a mess, and it's starting to affect how I feel, The fans are the ones who had no control over all this and sadly we are the ones who will suffer the most, I don't think that anybody has thought what about the fans

Look I will back my club and Khaldoon AI Mubarak, he's the one who has been saying we have done nothing wrong over and over again and season after season, BUT what else would he say,

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No evidence mate. They can say what they want and make us look guilty as hell.

On the facts and on the financial paper trail we are clean.

Remember CAS- no evidence of disguised owner funding.

So all that v innuendo, slander, copy & paste.

I know where my money is on…

It ain’t the people who have turned city into a football juggernaut. Lots of missteps have happened but this is a whole new fucking level and it’s impossible to prove without direct evidence to counter our proof.

It will soon be over.

Now what about that shit team we support? Villa next… -:)

 

[Moss Side's Finest]

Well for a start he could have come to a press conference at the start of the season and responded to the usual suspects in the same manner as he did to David Clayton
He could have also insisted that any journalist asking Pep about the allegations would be automatically banned.
Anything to prove that he was on our side.

On our side? Who's side so you think he may be on? I'm confused, as he's the Chairman of the club.

Khaldoon has always been a professional, calm and collected Chairman who does what he does without drama or controversy, he doesn't want the limelight, and I for one commend him for that. If he comes out mouthing off to the press, he's giving them EXACTLY what they want to continue their obvious agendas.

No, carry on as you are Khaldoon, best Chairman the league has ever seen.

 

[Vic]

M18ctid told everybody that Cheeseman was blabbing that we were getting 40 points. Cheeseman then came out with a pathetic ‘don’t believe what you read’ without explaining why he was telling people about 40 points.

Then a few days later is saying cryptic bollocks again about ‘what he has heard’.

The bloke is a whopper. Hopefully somebody will pull him for it on his shit blog this weekend.

That first sentence makes no sense. How could he explain what he'd said after saying you shouldn't believe he'd said it?

 

[manimanc]

Lee, We have seen things that only Manchester City fans will ever see,
I just want this all over with and then we can shut all the clowns down once and for all the called us cheats

Me too Ste, it hangs over us like a dark cloud.
It'll all be done soon mate then we can party like it's 1999 :)

 

[Moss Side's Finest]

M18ctid told everybody that Cheeseman was blabbing that we were getting 40 points. Cheeseman then came out with a pathetic ‘don’t believe what you read’ without explaining why he was telling people about 40 points.

Then a few days later is saying cryptic bollocks again about ‘what he has heard’.

The bloke is a whopper. Hopefully somebody will pull him for it on his shit blog this weekend.

Is any player, staff member, fan, local media legend safe from the bile of disgruntled city 'fans'. Cheesy is as blue as blue can be, if you disagree with his views, or thinks he's misguided fine, but as a fellow blue he deserves some respect.

 

[johnny crossan]

The best thing Cheesy can do is to just zip it. He's clearly just chasing clicks repeating speculation and hearsay - which isn't acceptable for a blue of his standing.

 

[bluegaz13]

It never fails to amaze me that a negative (ish) post can have a domino effect and all of a sudden posters are questioning our ownership who have made all of our dreams come true….we certainly have seen things in our lifetime that we never thought we would be possible.

If (and it’s a big IF) we have somehow broken the rules….the cartel have been out to get and stop us from day one and have changed the rules on numerous occasions
……not for the good of football in general but for their own self interest.

City are treated differently from any other club both in the media and from administration point of view.

Where is/was the outcry when :

• Abramovic was bank rolling Chelsea.
• Chelsea manipulating their finances by selling two hotels.
• Chelsea admitting previous financial irregularities when the present ownership took over.
• United recently failing FFP
• United offshore tax avoidance accounts.
• Liverpool writing off £50 million off on new stadium plans that didn’t happen.
• Liverpool hacking our database.
• Tottenhams owners insider trading.

I have no doubt City have used every possible legal trick in the book to circumvent the rules, the same as any other sensible set of owners would do.

At the very worst….if we are found guilty, is the fact that our owners used their own money to invest in the club because of the unscrupulous tactics of the Cartel.

So in the unlikely event that the Cartel led Premier League are able to somehow make some of the ‘mud stick’ and we are found to be guilty on some technicality, we need to look at the wider picture and ask how were we supposed to compete with the closed shop that is the Cartel that tries to prevent investment and is only interested in what it/they can take out of football.

We have the Newcastle example where the drawbridge has been closed and the richest club in the world are left on the outside and maybe having to sell their best players to meet FFP.

I am certainly not going to turn on our owners whatever the outcome.

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[Ric]

Well for a start he could have come to a press conference at the start of the season and responded to the usual suspects in the same manner as he did to David Clayton
He could have also insisted that any journalist asking Pep about the allegations would be automatically banned.
Anything to prove that he was on our side.

With respect, the very notion that a man of Khaldoon’s international standing would take on the role of City Media Officer for the day just to appease some fans, is frankly absurd.

 

[wolviedinho]

It never fails to amaze me that a negative (ish) post can have a domino effect and all of a sudden posters are questioning our ownership who have made all of our dreams come true….we certainly have seen things in our lifetime that we never thought we would be possible.

If (and it’s a big IF) we have somehow broken the rules….the cartel have been out to get and stop us from day one and have changed the rules on numerous occasions
……not for the good of football in general but for their own self interest.

City are treated differently from any other club both in the media and from administration point of view.

Where is/was the outcry when :

• Abramovic was bank rolling Chelsea.
• Chelsea manipulating their finances by selling two hotels.
• Chelsea admitting previous financial irregularities when the present ownership took over.
• United recently failing FFP
• United offshore tax avoidance accounts.
• Liverpool writing off £50 off on new stadium plans that didn’t happen.
• Liverpool hacking our database.
• Tottenhams owners insider trading.

I have no doubt City have used every possible legal trick in the book to circumvent the rules, the same as any other sensible set of owners would do.

At the very worst….if we are found guilty, is the fact that our owners used their own money to invest in the club because of the unscrupulous tactics of the Cartel.

So in the unlikely event that the Cartel led Premier League are able to somehow make some of the ‘mud stick’ and we are found to be guilty on some technicality, we need to look at the wider picture and ask how were we supposed to compete with the closed shop that is the Cartel that tries to prevent investment and is only interested in what it/they can take out of football.

We have the Newcastle example where the drawbridge has been closed and the richest club in the world are left on the outside and maybe having to sell their best players to meet FFP.

I am certainly not going to turn on our owners whatever the outcome.

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If the worst case happens. All I want from the club is an unlimited streaming service without commentary so I don’t have to listen to lies when I can’t get to a game and a ban on all journalists.

Make it happen city -:)

 

[cheekybids]

Unify League it’s been rebranded, revised so that some of the objections of its format have been removed They have approached FIFA and UEFA

Hmmm call it unify……. I wonder why.

I have a theory that as soon as a government or legislative body give a title to a change immediately check the opposite meaning in my thesaurus.

Separate, split, disunite.

 

[Saddleworth2]

It raises an interesting question. He was initially COO for Manchester City when I was on City Matters. Danny Wilson was, and still is, Managing Director of Operations for City. Then Omar moved to COO for CFG Football Operations. He was replaced by Roel de Vries, but de Vries is COO of CFG. Soriano is CEO of CFG.It

City are around 80% of CFG, based on revenue. In terms of global brand recognition we're probably 90%. Yet we don't have anyone more senior than Danny who is wholly responsible for managing City's off-field business. No club specific CEO or even COO. That level of management comes from CFG.

NYCFC has a CEO and i bet the other clubs in the CFG structure also have a club-focused CEO. But the club that makes up 80% of CFG doesn't. I simply don't understand this and wonder how much of a part this might play in our seemingly poor recruitment planning and strategy.

I've also expressed my concerns about the composition of the City (and CFG) boards, which contain no executive or independent directors. People say we're a well run club but I have my doubts.

I was always a little confused about Omar's title of COO. The normal industry job title of COO normally includes leading and running all the day to day operations of a company - that means IT, HR, Operations, Property, Security - so in City's case anything that involves ticketing, match day, groundsmen, canteen staff, call centres etc etc etc.
Thats not what Omar did though, he seemed to be more involved with sponsorship and the financial side. Danny Wilson, position seems to be far closer to being a COO. It does feel strange though, the lack of club specific executive..

 

[Scaring Europe to Death]

With respect, the very notion that a man of Khaldoon’s international standing would take on the role of City Media Officer for the day just to appease some fans, is frankly absurd.

With respect, how many vulnerable City fans need to suffer mentally (and possibly consider suicide) before people realise just how tortuous this has been?
Anything is better than nothing, and word could easily have been passed down to the media officer (if that person even exists anymore).
However, not one person within the club has fought our corner.

 

[Ric]

With respect, how many vulnerable City fans need to suffer mentally (and possibly consider suicide) before people realise just how tortuous this has been?
Anything is better than nothing, and word could easily have been passed down to the media officer (if that person even exists anymore).
However, not one person within the club has fought our corner.

Pep has tbf, repeatedly, and he’s the most influential figurehead at the club.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

With respect, the very notion that a man of Khaldoon’s international standing would take on the role of City Media Officer for the day just to appease some fans, is frankly absurd.

Got to admit, it made me laugh.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

With respect, the very notion that a man of Khaldoon’s international standing would take on the role of City Media Officer for the day just to appease some fans, is frankly absurd.

One man's "international standing" is another man's aloofnesss.

 

[wolviedinho]

With respect, how many vulnerable City fans need to suffer mentally (and possibly consider suicide) before people realise just how tortuous this has been?
Anything is better than nothing, and word could easily have been passed down to the media officer (if that person even exists anymore).
However, not one person within the club has fought our corner.

Pep has come out fighting time and time again. The club has issued a statement and been steadfast in their approach that we are innocent.

I do agree with you regarding the mental suffering. We would be lying if we didn’t admit that it has affected all of us in one way or another.

Gotta try to silence the constant diarrhoea from our sporting advisories and media.

If they played a fair game I could take it but they don’t.