PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

bobbyowenquiff said:
Apparently we are state owned. So how can our owner Sheikh Mansour have been accused of topping up our revenues from Etihad with his own cash? If we were state-owned the UAE state could have just increased payments from Etihad from its own coffers because Etihad is a state-owned airline. This whole saga has been a farce from start to finish.
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Only this. One of the reasons the most serious allegations won't be proven. The underlying case makes no sense.

Edit: there are many more.
 
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argyle said:
Most of the last 8 pages has been tedious stuff about The Guardian, left wing, etc.

Can we take that to off topic.
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It’s very much on topic. You’ve got a media voice that makes out it is ethical & righteous yet making false claims to imply guilt to benefit corrupt organisations. In war you’d describe it as “false flag” under liberal but actually doing the bidding of US capitalism & although it can go in the media thread it’s specific to the charges.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
And that approach conspicuously ignores the fact, that for better or worse, the modern world which (inter alia) supports the medium within which we are communicating, is founded upon oil.

It makes the world we live and thrive in, go round.

Without it, as things stand, civilisation would collapse.
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Exactly as I said. Oil isn’t illegal so selling it and making profit is perfectly fine. Why do these idiot opposition fans have such a problem with it
 
Damanino said:
there will be a coordinated media response if we are found not guilty. how PL messed up, how they didnt do their investigation well enough,how they didnt look for evidence in the right place, how their lawyers fucked up, how the panel had ties to City, how Masters is a weak leader for PL, how PL needs even stronger FFP going forward.

very little will be about City not being guilty of the charges. probably two articles from M Samuel vs 1000s written with vitriol of getting away with it

most will be about how PL leadership not fit for purpose.
they are not good enough if they couldnt punish City severely. this will be the crucial take.
that PL needs a leadership who can catch City.
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''Completely innocent of false accusations after being wrongly charged by a conspirital cabal, comprising the PL & a group of American shareholder members" said Lord David.
 
FanchesterCity said:
The press has always presumed our guilt and essentially presented it as the PL trying to prove what everybody knows but fighting City's legal might and financial obfuscation and subterfuge.

City being guilty is the starting premise, albeit not explicity stated, it's implied in tone.

With the rare exception of the likes of Martin Samuel, nobody has ever questioned the process of how the PL choose to apply extreme scrutiny towards City, and seemingly cursory assessment of many other clubs.

Even if we accept 'the hacked emails' gave the PL some cause for concern, it should still be questioned why nothing was detected by their own processes at a much earlier stage. Essentially it sounds like they'd have found nothing on their own, and only via hacked emails did they have any reason to investigate ofurther. Even after this, they have hardly acted in a timely manner, but rather 'gathered evidence' over a prolonged period whilst also claiming we have obstructed investigation.

Clearly the entire process doesn't work well - neither for the PL nor the accused club.

As you rightly say... if we are declared to be innocent or as many will claim 'manage to get away with it', what will it say about the decisions and processes within the PL? If the evidence is so weak why did the PL continue trying for so many years? If it's so strong, then unless the evidence is quite recent, what took so long to charge us?
It should spell the death knell for the PL's ability to regulate itself, through no fault of anything but it's own incompetence.
It ought to warrant a similar level of investigative scrutiny into its own operations and communications regarding this case. Let's see how cooperative they and the member clubs are then.

I really hope this doesn't get brushed under the carpet, but I suspect it might end up that way. It'll be a monumental PL fuckup, possibly premeditated witchhunt and should be exposed as such.
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Hold their feet to the fire of clarity transparency and accountability.....for as long as it takes City.

No equivication.

Never forget that these bastards have waged a 10 + year campain of destruction against our club.

If our response leads to ruination of the guilty so be it.....thats what they intended for us !!
 
Bald fraud said:
Can’t wait for khaldoons interview when this shit show is put to bed!
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His interview will last 115 minutes and will end with his announcement of wholesale reductions in ticket prices, 6000 safe standing seats in the 'Great Northern', and SSL3/2 becoming exclusive to City fans.*

He told me aboot it yesterday on Saadiyat....nice guy !!

* He wants away fans shifted doon to the shit, wet seats in ESL110/111....."shit views and shit acoustics" he said.

"A man of vision & common sense" i replied.
 
cheekybids said:
It was a ridiculous statement, baseless. As GDM said if City win their case it’s because there was no evidence of wrong doing….. again. A 5 year campaign of hate designed to destroy a founding member of the premier league backed by under-performing rivals.

It’s the beginning of the real investigation, if they have the bollocks.
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Perhaps it would be somewhere near correct if they added the word "illegal" before "rules".
 
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