PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

ninjamonkey said:
Dont think this has anything to do with us, we'll likely be fine with them making twats of themselves and setting themselves up for a lawsuit if thats how they want to play it but sky are probably fearful of a full blooded City retaliation and a full attack on anybody and everybody in the event of us being cleared. Most of them are too thick to be trusted to speak on the issues without opening themselves up for a lawsuit so their employers are just telling them to shut their mouths before it costs them dearly.

The premier league claimed a victory when they were found to be acting unlawfully, obviously they're going to claim a victory in this too. We all know we're guilty for the dozens of non-complience charges, and they'll do their best to convince as many morons as possible of our guilt through those alone if the rest goes our way.

The headlines have been written already "man city found guilty of x charges in ffp case" and completely ignore the bit where they have to explain we're guilty of nothing but not cooperating in order to seek a fair hearing.

I hope that we can somehow contest those charges if we're cleared of everything else as those verdicts would indicate we were entirely justified in not cooperating in the first place and therefore shouldn't be punished for not cooperating with a governing body that cannot act lawfully or without bias. We really need a complete clean sweep to try and lay this to rest once and for all. A single guilty verdict even if it's just for not cooperating gives the disingenuous and the thick a way to keep claiming guilt.
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“We all know we’re guilty of dozens of non-compliance charges”
Do we? I didn’t, genuinely.
 
Ric said:
I don’t think that’s a realistic scenario tbh.
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People being able to make their own interpretation of any verdict isn't particularly helpful.

I suppose the ridiculous PR battle that played out after the APT case should've been an indicator. Sounds rather infuriating.
 
One main concern I have is that the Premier League will claim victory on non-compliance, and basically state that they couldn't get the required evidence needed to sentence the punishments required for the charges put forward.

That way, we claim the bigger victory, but the PL cover it all in doubt by saying they couldn't obtain the evidence needed as City hid it.
 
Gorbachev said:
One main concern I have is that the Premier League will claim victory on non-compliance, and basically state that they couldn't get the required evidence needed to sentence the punishments required for the charges put forward.

That way, we claim the bigger victory, but the PL cover it all in doubt by saying they couldn't obtain the evidence needed as City hid it.
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I honestly don't understand how this approach/result could benefit the PL more than them coming out and saying "there were concerns, we investigated, the evidence showed there was no wrongdoing, we did the right thing and everything is good".
 
Dreading the verdict. No matter what happens, it’ll be played out like a victory for both sides and some idiots won’t see past that if we’re found innocent.

Let the posturing begin.
 
Ric said:
I doubt even the club are expecting exoneration on every single charge.
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Isn’t it a case of there being 3-4 genuine cases to answer though?

The charges number is more superficial than anything else. It’s not like there’s 115/130 different incidents and we have to bat away each one.

If you got accused of stealing at work and they hit you with 15 technical breaches of the staff handbook, if you prove you didn’t then all 15 breaches fall. It’s not like you’d be innocent of 12 but guilty of 3.
 
Manchester_lalala said:
As already mentioned, that looks like City have already warned them that anymore of their bullshit and we’ll be taking action. Could be looking into it to much but good indication that City are expecting good news.
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Tim Sherwood by all accounts had his wrists slapped .
We won’t take a pinch again Khaldoon said - and if he’s wrong , he’s going to have to fall on his sword , nothing else but a complete victory is good enough. I think most of us have grown skins as thick as a rhino the past few years, it’s a shame that things are shit on the pitch to coincide with the impending result.
It’s the words it may go to an appeal that slightly bothers me , not exactly the outcome Khaldoon expected is it?
 
flb said:
Tim Sherwood by all accounts had his wrists slapped .
We won’t take a pinch again Khaldoon said - and if he’s wrong , he’s going to have to fall on his sword , nothing else but a complete victory is good enough. I think most of us have grown skins as thick as a rhino the past few years, it’s a shame that things are shit on the pitch to coincide with the impending result.
It’s the words it may go to an appeal that slightly bothers me , not exactly the outcome Khaldoon expected is it?
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The premier league won’t appeal they were already moaning about legal costs
 
chesterbells said:
I’m being so naive then, because I thought based on what the club said at the time, that we would clear our name, because we weren’t guilty of anything. This sounds like the club didn’t even believe that all along …
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some of the charges relate to non cooperation i expect were likley be cleared on the most serious of the charges but get some sort of fine for the non cooperation charges.
 
skillman said:
Dreading the verdict. No matter what happens, it’ll be played out like a victory for both sides and some idiots won’t see past that if we’re found innocent.

Let the posturing begin.
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I am more now, because after this tonight, it seems like one of the 3 possible outcomes (full non-guilty outcome for City) is now off the table. Maybe it never was on it, but I interpreted some of the positive mood music recently as meaning that might still be a possibility.
 
chesterbells said:
I am more now, because after this tonight, it seems like one of the 3 possible outcomes (full non-guilty outcome for City) is now off the table. Maybe it never was on it, but I interpreted some of the positive mood music recently as meaning that might still be a possibility.
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Genuine question: why? What has actually happened, other than Sky Sports pre-empting further complaints from City by telling their pundits not to talk shit?
 
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