PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Coatigan said:
Maybe you are underthinking it ;).

Listen, all fair. I said what I had to say, happy with the responses that disagree.

Doesn't change what I think, that would take years of media behaviour otherwise to budge.

While we are at it, if this does go against us, Stefan may want to prepare himself for getting all his historic quotes on the seriousness of the charges thrown right back on his face by the same media that asked for them in the first place, and he'll fine well know it.

I was ready to drop it a couple pages back, but keep getting drawn back in by some of the responses.

Not much more to see here.
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Fair fucks mate.
 
Tevez City said:
It doesn't make sense at all.

If they know anything, they will break the story themselves instead of emailing Big Steve about it.
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The media and comms teams of both parties may well have been given a steer on timescales from the lawyers. This is routine and allows everyone to prepare a response. It is not like a crimininal trial. I have always thought that the faster the process the better for City but that may be just blind optimism.The comms teams will each prepare two different responses in advance based on a win or defeat.
 
Stoned Rose said:
They’d (if the rumour is even true) want big Steve on purely because he’s good tv. He speaks his mind and is confident doing it.

You’re overthinking it @Coatigan
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I'm prepared to go on and offer the voice of reason.

Do you think they'll fly me Business Class from Jumeirah and put me oop in a 5* hotel at licence feepayers expense ?

I'll use my alternative ID.......SlimeBall StoneWall, that should cut the mustard !!
 
terraloon said:
Some months ago I got absolutely slaughtered on here because the view you articulated in the above posts was close to the view I was putting forward.

Image rights payments are far from clear cut. It used to be that you could divert a set % of overall package to IR now it’s more to do with proven worth.

Several/ most big players in English football have agreed settlements with HMRC I believe a couple more are still to.

The demise of Portsmouth exposed warts and all the boundaries that were not only being pushed but trampled over by clubs diverting payments from standard PAYE to entities that were related to players. The football creditor rule was challenged by HMRC following Portsmouths insolvency event but to put it mildly HMRC had its arse kicked.

As you say that there is little put in the public domain concerning the details of these minor charges, because that’s what they are, so that vacuum has been filed by people joining the dots.

As I have pointed out I have been involved in many a football club investigation so nothing surprises me.

From company cars being provided to the children to a wife working for a non trading company and being paid tens of thousands a year. To children’s education fees being paid to a players of shore company on behalf of his father scouting in Africa when the father was dead.

None of us have a clue the strength of case the PL has put forward.
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How do YOU know that?
 
mcfcphil said:
I’d say zero chance anyone in the media knows the verdict beyond a steer of confidence from either side, which really tells us very little.

This is arguably the biggest story in Premier League history - no media outlet is sitting on that if they have a concrete view of the decision.
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No way they will have the decision well in advance from three judges. The parties will get some steer on timescales for sure. Both sides may get the broad decision perhaps 24 hours in advance of a public statement. Sometimes over a weekend before a Monday release. The public reputational side of this is crucial and so are the comms.
 
Nephin Man said:
That sounds logical. I was just listening to my gut, though I would argue a ruling in City's favour is not what the media want to hear and any delay in announcing it gives them a stay of execution to milk the last drop of anti-City sentiment out of the old paradigm before they revise their narrative. They have all the future to tell us about the outcome.
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The only thing media outlets will care about right now is 1) being first to break this story 2) having everything in place to produce as much content as possible in the 24 hours following the announcement
 
Coatigan said:
Ok.

The BBC are inviting resolute blues to comment on the verdict, to show them celebrating and feeling vindicated. Aye, sure, ok.
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It's probably part of that series of podcasts about City and the allegations. They did say they would be airing more after the release of the award. I imagine they are just getting their ducks in a row.
 
remember arthur mann said:
The outcome will be released on the ides of March. Plenty of backstabbing.
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I blame the players and pep!

Only 1 game per week! Least we had the crap football to watch and worry over. Now the day of reckoning is upon us and @Coatigan is climbing the walls.

Anyway to complain directly to the playing staff? -:)
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
I cant see the BBC, ITV, Sky, all knowing what the verdict is when no one else does, and without leaking it! This is just getting prepared for whatever happens.

It would be good for our youtubers to be prepared for any narrative they push forward. IE If there is a charge of non cooperation the media will be keen to press home how guilty we are. The media companies will have had their legal staff pouring over all the details and will highlight something poisonous. I’d even say it would be good for our owners to brief the youtubers and podcasters we have beforehand even to make sure we KNOW what the outcome is. (All academical if we have totally lost the case though.

The APT stuff and them claiming a victory really showed their true colours. Twats.
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I don’t think the club should be briefing our fans, that could play out poorly.

However, we will have a statement prepared (as we will have the verdict before the public), so this will give a starting point.

By the time your watching it most people’s minds are made up anyway.
 
We know the result should be fairly soon, so it’s no wonder BBC, Sky etc do.

I actually expected it to be a longer time, everything considered.
 
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