PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[M12Blue]

Had a conversation tonight with a fan from another club whose speaks regularly with his chairman. He thinks City will be punished but not with all the charges but still enough to be relegated to the championship! I carnt name the chairman or the club!

It’s Christmas mate not April 1st

 

[Keith Moon]

Now? Probably not relevant

Now it’s up to God, I suppose. But what worries me is that we don’t know exactly what we are accused of regarding Financial Misrepresentation, nor do we know what the Premier League has uncovered or what Pinto might have conjured up from the archives.

 

[Inter Me Nan]

Had a conversation tonight with a fan from another club whose speaks regularly with his chairman. He thinks City will be punished but not with all the charges but still enough to be relegated to the championship! I carnt name the chairman or the club!

 

[Essex blue]

Forget it. It's bollocks. Don't get worked

Can you say what town the club comes from, without naming the club? Can you say what league the club plays in?

premier league and london

 

[Paladin]

Forget it. It's bollocks. Don't get worked up.

Haha, I'm not! Thanks for your post earlier, which was a bright beacon of reality, within the storm clouds of doom and gloom.

May I take this opportunity to respond to your greeting by wishing you, Stefan and other Jewish members a happy Chanukah, and to those like me that celebrate it, a happy Christmas.

I would also like to extend a huge thank you to all the knowledgeable posters in this thread who continue to navigate us through the crooked paths of the FFP regime and the 115/130 charges. Your knowledge, and willingness to share it, is immensely appreciated.

 

[Damocles]

Had a conversation tonight with a fan from another club whose speaks regularly with his chairman. He thinks City will be punished but not with all the charges but still enough to be relegated to the championship! I carnt name the chairman or the club!

Why would the Chairman of an unrelated club have any knowledge or opinion of a completely sealed legal process that hasn't even made its mind up yet?

 

[theres only one carlito]

Had a conversation tonight with a fan from another club whose speaks regularly with his chairman. He thinks City will be punished but not with all the charges but still enough to be relegated to the championship! I carnt name the chairman or the club!

And you can’t spell can’t

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Had a conversation tonight with a fan from another club whose speaks regularly with his chairman. He thinks City will be punished but not with all the charges but still enough to be relegated to the championship! I carnt name the chairman or the club!

was it droylsden haha

 

[Big Joe Corrigan]

And you can’t spell can’t

There’s

 

[manimanc]

Had a conversation tonight with a fan from another club whose speaks regularly with his chairman. He thinks City will be punished but not with all the charges but still enough to be relegated to the championship! I carnt name the chairman or the club!

Oh do fuck off.
What an absolute bellend.

 

[cheekybids]

Had a conversation tonight with a fan from another club whose speaks regularly with his chairman. He thinks City will be punished but not with all the charges but still enough to be relegated to the championship! I carnt name the chairman or the club!

Well my chairman told us he has irrefutable evidence, it’s clear & organised & he’ll have his say once we are cleared.

 

[xgorton]

Had a conversation tonight with a fan from another club whose speaks regularly with his chairman. He thinks City will be punished but not with all the charges but still enough to be relegated to the championship! I carnt name the chairman or the club!

Was it Colin Compton from the wheeltappers and shunters club ?

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

As everybody congregates on here, just once again, a message to say ‘Fuck the lot of ‘em’, and a Very Merry Christmas to all Blues and their Families, wherever you are in the world.

Love you all x

 

[cookster]

Had a conversation tonight with a fan from another club whose speaks regularly with his chairman. He thinks City will be punished but not with all the charges but still enough to be relegated to the championship! I carnt name the chairman or the club!

Not another, he said, she said fairy tale.

Don't worry all, just caught Father Christmas emptying his sack.
He said 3 points on boxing day and the charges are all sorted, win for City.

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

Had a conversation tonight with a fan from another club whose speaks regularly with his chairman. He thinks City will be punished but not with all the charges but still enough to be relegated to the championship! I carnt name the chairman or the club!

The sad thing is you've still got better sources than Miguel Delaney.

 

[BerkshireBlue]

Not wanting to hijack the thread but "over the top security policies" really? What does 'insecure methods' even mean? Wrong on so many levels.

It's a proven fact that if you lock down your IT so much that staff struggle to do anything they'll resort to other methods to get around the lock down. I'd suggest if you know fuck all about security policies then start reading about ISO 27001, SOC 2 certifications and Cyber essentials and come back with some actual knowledge rather than a load of bollocks like you've just written

 

[cheekybids]

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah & Peace & goodwill to you all. I’m off to the beach with family to meet good friends & everyone will be asking me about little Citeh. The experts contributing to this thread has allowed me to hold my head high whilst schooling them on the charges.

Thank you all!

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

Good to hear Stefan.

But just for the knicker-wetters (and there seems to be a few) let's reiterate:
1. The Etihad allegations were all comprehensively covered at CAS.

• Etihad paid properly for their sponsorship.
• No money came from ADUG.
• Etihad paid fair value for their sponsorship.
• Etihad got fair value for their sponsorship.
• Etihad are not a related party (and it would make no difference if they were due to the above points).

I would be amazed if there was any issue with this group of charges. In fact they may be the subject of the rumours (but we don't know how true these are) that around 50 of the charges might have been dropped. The PL would need some pretty damning evidence that wasn't available to CAS to land these charges.

2. The Mancini allegations are a complete red-herring/crock of shit (delete as applicable). This was far more likely to be Mancini seeking a tax advantage of some sort (which isn't in itself illegal) than any attempt to disguise an expense. The numbers involved are completely insignificant given the scale of our losses at that time. Also likely to be time-barred anyway.

3. The Fordham stuff is the only one of the three substantive allegations where I initially thought that we might have been on dodgy ground. But then I thought about it and the point of these was to get revenue on the books in 2012/13, in order (as we thought back then) to meet the Annex XI transitional relief that we hoped would help us avoid punishment.

However they didn't, we negotiated a settlement, and UEFA were aware of Fordham around 2015, with the arrangement ending in 2017 or 2018. No charges were ever brought over Fordham and Der Spiegel's 'revelations' about the arrangement in 2018 were already a known quantity. Of course it's possible that the IC may take a different view but even if they do, the amounts involved are really significant.

Happy Chanukah to you and yours Stefan (and any other Jewish posters) and Happy Xmas to those who celebrate. There are things that worry me about City and our direction of travel, but the PL case isn't one of them.

Point of information. The related party question wasn't explicitly covered at CAS but, as I said, Etihad aren't a related party and even if they were it wouldn't make a blind bit of difference.

chag Hanukkah sameach and thanks for the post. Wont calm anyone down mind, just ask someone who spoke to someone who knows the chairman of a National league team (insert rolling eyes emoji here)

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Had a conversation tonight with a fan from another club whose speaks regularly with his chairman. He thinks City will be punished but not with all the charges but still enough to be relegated to the championship! I carnt name the chairman or the club!

"I'm getting the word, nonce"

 

[Goro]

Had a conversation tonight with a fan from another club whose speaks regularly with his chairman. He thinks City will be punished but not with all the charges but still enough to be relegated to the championship! I carnt name the chairman or the club!

That’s a very sus convo you had my friend
can’t name any name at all

you can easily say pep is signing for more years because he knows that city will be fine