PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

This window, and the contract received by Erling, MUST be because of information received. I cannot accept that this would be our course of action if we believed the tribunal were going to find against us.
 
Family Man Ashton said:
I don’t need to see the contracts. Just look at what happened with Parma, Málaga, Rangers, AEK Athens, Marseille, and Juventus. If we’re found guilty of fraud, there’s no way we can force players to stay, so the argument about 'no release clause inserted' is irrelevant.
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And you believe that we would set ourselves up for a contract settlement of such a scale?
 
halfcenturyup said:
Fair enough, but imho we don't know enough about the PSR assessments or any Chelsea settlement to get excited about them.

I will, however, continue to call out the opacity around PSR assessments on the grounds that it damages the credibility of the process and leads to conspiracy theories.

I'll also call out the weakness of the PL and its rulebook if any Chelsea settlement is deemed to be outside the disciplinary process.

And I'll continue to call out Masters as the worst possible sort of individual to be managing a dysfunctional collection of football clubs.

But I won't be getting my knickers in a twist (at least on this thread) about things on which we don't have enough information to come to a sensible conclusion. Life's too short. Or at least mine is these days :)
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Like you I do think there is little to no information out there to make any sort of call as to which way the IC have viewed matters.
Interesting point was many commentators drew the conclusion that the reason that Chelsea were so active in the transfer market was that the PL was pushing for a transfer embargo and despite the Ziegler comments I personally wouldn’t at all be surprised if that is still a possibility
In terms of Chelsea agreeing a settlement well that would be fully in accord with the PL disciplinary process it’s worth noting that this sort of resolution is common place in football it’s an approach that both Chelsea and indeed City have benefited from at UEFA
In terms of any settlement being signed off part of the process would be scrutiny by members of the IC board
 
slbsn said:
Honestly, how many signals do you need that the club remain supremely confident. There are never any guarantees but the club are not preparing to lose the case. How much clearer could it be?
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The reassurance Haaland got must have been pretty strong.
 
Family Man Ashton said:
I don’t need to see the contracts. Just look at what happened with Parma, Málaga, Rangers, AEK Athens, Marseille, and Juventus. If we’re found guilty of fraud, there’s no way we can force players to stay, so the argument about 'no release clause inserted' is irrelevant.
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I think some are missing the point regarding these deals. If there was any doubt of a harsh punishment, there’s not a chance Txiki or Viana would be convincing players to sign on the dotted line. It doesn’t even make financial sense to be making these deals if we’re about to spend a minimum year out of the prem and possibly a few years out of Europe.
 
Family Man Ashton said:
I don’t need to see the contracts. Just look at what happened with Parma, Málaga, Rangers, AEK Athens, Marseille, and Juventus. If we’re found guilty of fraud, there’s no way we can force players to stay, so the argument about 'no release clause inserted' is irrelevant.
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Yep I am sure mass signings and major contract commitments are the actions of a guilty party. Don’t believe the media narrative, we’ve done fuck all wrong apart from pissing off the red club cartel and their premier league poodle Masters et al. We clearly know how the case is gone and they’ve got fuck all on us and we know it.

There are things they ignore like clubs selling hotels to themselves, selling their women’s football team, £50m allowance for a stadium that never happened, £35 allowance for share dealing costs ffs, £41m allowance for a pandemic when no other club gets more than £1m, etc et fucking cetera.

We ain’t guilty of fraud, it’s the most blatant corruption in plain sight you could imagine, surprised so many have fallen for it

Edit - let’s hope Erling’s new contract has been funded by the reputational damages we know we are getting from the PL
 
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slbsn said:
Honestly, how many signals do you need that the club remain supremely confident. There are never any guarantees but the club are not preparing to lose the case. How much clearer could it be?
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Just out of interest Stefan, is this the soft signal you heard about the other week? I know you said that it wasn't transfer related so I thought it could be sponsor related. It never crossed my mind that it could be contract related
 
Family Man Ashton said:
I don’t need to see the contracts. Just look at what happened with Parma, Málaga, Rangers, AEK Athens, Marseille, and Juventus. If we’re found guilty of fraud, there’s no way we can force players to stay, so the argument about 'no release clause inserted' is irrelevant.
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There's a bit of a raggy smell about this tweet???
 
oldius said:
And you believe that we would set ourselves up for a contract settlement of such a scale?
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To start with, I firmly believe we will be cleared—no doubt, 110%. However, if you look at what happened to clubs that have been relegated for financial irregularities or fraud, contractual release clauses meant nothing.
 
terraloon said:
Like you I do think there is little to no information out there to make any sort of call as to which way the IC have viewed matters.
Interesting point was many commentators drew the conclusion that the reason that Chelsea were so active in the transfer market was that the PL was pushing for a transfer embargo and despite the Ziegler comments I personally wouldn’t at all be surprised if that is still a possibility
In terms of Chelsea agreeing a settlement well that would be fully in accord with the PL disciplinary process it’s worth noting that this sort of resolution is common place in football it’s an approach that both Chelsea and indeed City have benefited from at UEFA
In terms of any settlement being signed off part of the process would be scrutiny by members of the IC board
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Thing is you cunts DID ACTUALLY make dodgy payments and your most successful period WAS based on dodgy payments to agents that gave you sporting advantage?
 
Family Man Ashton said:
I don’t need to see the contracts. Just look at what happened with Parma, Málaga, Rangers, AEK Athens, Marseille, and Juventus. If we’re found guilty of fraud, there’s no way we can force players to stay, so the argument about 'no release clause inserted' is irrelevant.
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It really isn’t irrelevant mate

Do you honestly believe the club would spend this amount of cash knowing players could walk for free?

If you do believe it, you’ve not been watching very closely since 2008
 
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