PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[jimharri]

Today would be good, seeing as it's a bank holiday over here. God bless that Welshman!

 

[blue b4 the moon]

Puma are one of our sponsors who could suffer financial damage if we lost the case. They would have done due diligence on us. So it is a good sign if they have signed a deal with the PL at this moment.

My full thoughts are that maybe they have been sullied/loss of earnings from the 115 cases and knowing we are going to win have threatened the Prem will court for various losses. The Prem not wanting to be dragged through the courts (there could be many more parties queuing up for a Prem slice on reputation issues) have instead offered them a sweetener.

Couldn't think of a video to post for this ;)

 

[jrb]

It's the final count down

 

[HelloCity]

Imagine that moment you look at your phone and see the 'Man City notification' and it simply says 'Club Statement'.

 

[Bantamgaz]

It will announced when the scousers seal the title it will page after page of how amazing they are and there at the bottom of the page .........in other news Man City 115 charges dropped

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

My full thoughts are that maybe they have been sullied/loss of earnings from the 115 cases and knowing we are going to win have threatened the Prem will court for various losses. The Prem not wanting to be dragged through the courts (there could be many more parties queuing up for a Prem slice on reputation issues) have instead offered them a sweetener.

Couldn't think of a video to post for this ;)

There is big risk for all our sponsors, Being partners with fraudsters is big reputational damage. The Puma deal with the PL is certainly interesting. Not sure if good or bad for us yet.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

There is big risk for all our sponsors, Being partners with fraudsters is big reputational damage. The Puma deal with the PL is certainly interesting. Not sure if good or bad for us yet.

They are dropping us and it’s back to those badly fitting Le Coq Sportif shirts. It’s a soft signal.

 

[ProEvo]

They should hold on until Liverpool lift the league title, then Premier League's/Man City's official X account will post "Official Statement"

 

[ayrshire_blue]

There is big risk for all our sponsors, Being partners with fraudsters is big reputational damage. The Puma deal with the PL is certainly interesting. Not sure if good or bad for us yet.

You said 34 minutes ago that it was a good sign didn't you? =)

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

You said 34 minutes ago that it was a good sign didn't you? =)

Yes. I hope it is. But it is impossible to know for sure. Would Puma do a deal with the PL if City had lost the case? But as someone else pointed out Puma may have another motive, perhaps damage limitation. I also am surprised by the suggestion that the independent regulator is being scrapped. This could also be good or bad for us!

 

[halfcenturyup]

You said 34 minutes ago that it was a good sign didn't you? =)

Clearly it's a good sign, but whether that is good or bad depends on the chances of how bad a sign it may be. Obviously, if it was possible it was good bad sign that would be bad. If it was likely to be a bad bad sign, however, that may be good.

 

[TheGhost]

Brace yourselves ....countdown to 10am

It’s 11am

 

[Citizen Green]

Not gonna be today is it.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Anyone else reckon the panel have been ready for days, but they keep reading this thread and pissing themselves laughing because they are holding the report back?

Naah. Strike that. Lawyers don't have any sense of humour .....

 

[jimharri]

Not gonna be today is it.

The sense of anti climax on here when if there's no announcement today will be, er, "massive".

 

[M18CTID]

Yes. I hope it is. But it is impossible to know for sure. Would Puma do a deal with the PL if City had lost the case? But as someone else pointed out Puma may have another motive, perhaps damage limitation. I also am surprised by the suggestion that the independent regulator is being scrapped. This could also be good or bad for us!

I wouldn't read anything - positive or negative - into Puma signing a deal with the PL and rumours that the independent regulator is going to be scrapped. I doubt either of those have anything to do with our case.

 

[ManCitizens.]

Not gonna be today is it.

No idea but I think the APT results were announced in the afternoon?

 

[foggy1974]

our kit sponsors signing a deal with the pl, surely not i thought we only did business with shady companies and the pl are whiter than white.

Well it was originally the brother of Adi Daslers company

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

As has been mentioned on here previously, and as happened with the CAS verdict, the parties get an advance copy of the verdict a few days before it's made public. This is so any obvious errors can be corrected. At that point there will almost certainly be leaks.

When Ian Cheeseman prematurely announced the CAS outcome, I'm pretty sure his information was legit, and not a lucky guess. I'd be surprised therefore if the formal announcement came completely out of the blue.

 

[leo_city]

As has been mentioned on here previously, and as happened with the CAS verdict, the parties get an advance copy of the verdict a few days before it's made public. This is so any obvious errors can be corrected. At that point there will almost certainly be leaks.

When Ian Cheeseman prematurely announced the CAS outcome, I'm pretty sure his information was legit, and not a lucky guess. I'd be surprised therefore if the formal announcement came completely out of the blue.

Any indication about the information floating about suggesting either outcome? Or likely that the club and Prem have not received it?