PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

gordondaviesmoustache said:
The thing is, there are two broad scenarios that would relate to a finding in the club’s favour.

One is that the club has been guilty of institutional and sustained fraud and the PL simply hasn’t been able to prove that, or that we haven’t committed fraud at all and these charges are completely without merit. I don’t think there’s any grey area in between in terms of the substantive charges.

It’s not the fact that the media prefers the former rather than the latter as an explanation, it’s the widespread refusal to even acknowledge the latter as a possibility, other than the obligatory recital of the club’s denial.

It never gets floated, despite the implications of such an outcome actually being more significant in terms of evaluation of the competence of the PL’s ability to run and govern the game.

Even if the chances of this possibility were remote (which I would say they absolutely weren’t) it’s truly astonishing that this (as far as I can recall) hasn’t been ventilated by a single journalist of note. That in those circumstances, all this time, money and emotional energy would have been a fool’s errand.

Not a single ‘what if’ about a scenario that is entirely feasible that has implications that go to the very heart of the way our game is run.

It’s all very bizarre and more than a little bit sinister.
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American owned media. Only this
 
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Blueeye said:
Read a piece yesterday saying there will be a transfer ban on us if found guilty.whitch would piss them off if we do our transfers this month.and tie earling down
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The premier league do not have the authority to issue a transfer ban, the only football authority that can do that is FIFA.
 
The talk of fines is interesting.

One I haven’t seen anything in the press suggesting why we would be fined.

Obviously it would be because the only thing we did wrong was non cooperation.

Yet everyone thinks we are guilty of everything and should be relegated and he fine is basically a bribe or the result of bribes or power

I think it’s perhaps theoretically possible but super unlikely especially with an independent panel.

That there is a wider problem with the rules like United Chelsea Liverpool getting away with stuff and the only option being to fine us rather than impose the correct punishment and also punishing basically every club.


Of course I believe we are innocent and trust the owners.

My point is the press narrative and the view of rival fans is interesting
 
citizen_maine said:
However, don't they have to agree the 25 player squad that we submit after each window? It'd be easy to say 'you can't play him'
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I'll be amazed if thats the case, but I'm sure someone who is familiar with the rulebook will be able to tell us. All I've found on the Premier League site is the basic info of the make up of the 25 man squad which I'm sure most of us on here are aware:

www.premierleague.com

Premier League squad lists - what you need to know

Find out the rules behind how many players clubs can submit to play in the competition
www.premierleague.com www.premierleague.com
 
eastmanc said:
The Guardian is generally an excellent paper they just hate City , always have. The place is rag infested, better not reading their sports section.
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An excellent paper wouldn’t be constantly producing articles which blatantly belittle our club and be part of a media attempt to ruin us.

An excellent paper wouldn’t “hate” on one particular club, ironically a Manchester one.

It’s a free world but nothing in the non sports part would make me go near such a paper. It deserves nothing but our contempt.
 
KS55 said:
The lies they tell about us make me doubt the veracity of the rest of the paper, so I have given it up completely.
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I have found generally with the press, that whenever they write an article on something that I know a great deal about, it's a gross simplification at best and often a complete load of bollocks from start to finish.

That's why I call them 'liepapers'. However, in fairness, the date on the top of the page is usually 100% correct.
 
WRicko said:
My point is the press narrative and the view of rival fans is interesting
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The Earth was also flat until it was proved otherwise, then it was spherical, but you can bet people alive at the time thought it was bollocks and still believed in flat earth. Same will happen here.
 
eastmanc said:
The Guardian is generally an excellent paper they just hate City , always have. The place is rag infested, better not reading their sports section.
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'Excellent paper" - there is no such thing. Certainly and particularly not the Guardian with the snide toxic bile that Liew and Ronay spout about City.
 
BrianW said:
I have found generally with the press, that whenever they write an article on something that I know a great deal about, it's a gross simplification at best and often a complete load of bollocks from start to finish.

That's why I call them 'liepapers'. However, in fairness, the date on the top of the page is usually 100% correct.
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Suppose that depends whether you wipe your arse with it on the day of printing, or following days.
 
eastmanc said:
The Guardian is generally an excellent paper
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