PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Marvin.]

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Pep may have been speaking out of pure expectation. Or to delay questions for another month. Or to prompt a questions about it, and detract from what was going on in the pitch. Or to give the ayers a bit of a shake, or to give everyone else a bit of a shake. Or just said something that popped into his mind at that moment.

A lot of the expection that we will here something in this period is coming from his comment, and then anyone hedging their guesses is gambling on that.

As a result a bunch are interpreting what 'the hold-up' or 'the delay' means, whether the club actually know, whether they say they don't but they do, who knows what and who believes what.

But the reality could well be, there IS no hold-up, there is no delay, this is the time it takes and would have taken anyway. And the club really havent heard anything, and will do when they do. And it is simply the expectation that is misplaced, and not anything else.

The expectation of a March announcement seems to have come from Pep's press conference on the 7th Feb. when he talked rather casually about a verdict and sentence in one month.

 

[johnny crossan]

I just a had a egg, bacon and sausage "sandwich" on wholemeal bread, proper fucking cultured me

egg, bacon and sausage ... would be considered by some gourmands as rather unrefined.

 

[johnny crossan]

Why are you so confident on this. It makes absolutely no sense that City or the PL have the verdict and are sitting on it. Its the biggest story in world sport. The second that verdict is delivered its going to be absolutely everywhere. The PL leaks like a colander.

I think it makes perfect sense, they are in total control of the publication date and are clearly still negotiating the settlement.

 

[Bodicoteblue]

Always The Last To Know

 

[blueparrot]

Not sure how sustainable or viable that would be. If there is a punishment, it still needs to go through the process to get decided, and then appealed and either reduced or upheld.

If that doesn't happen before the next season, then they have the exact same issue as now, it comes at a point in the season and causes chaos.

The only way to avoid it (assuming we aren't cleared and there is a punishment) would imho be that it comes out now, goes through the sausage machine, and is decided before the next season.

Probably, my only thinking was IF there is a point deduction announced this week, pending appeals,and was a deduction for next season the it could open up a can of worms with teams missing out this season on maybe CL arguing the deduction should apply this season.
Probably overthinking it though and hopefully there is no point deduction anyway.

 

[Shaggy]

egg, bacon and sausage ... would be considered by some gourmands as rather unrefined.

Well all I can say to them is

 

[Brightwell’s left peg]

Haven’t the cunts realised that I’ve got an unusually quiet week next week ffs?

I expect you’ll still be billing 50 hours to somebody though!! ;-)

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Yes, I’d say that could theoretically be left to the parties to agree (assuming they can) in these circumstances. Especially given the level of public interest. If they couldn’t agree then it would naturally revert back to the panel to decide.

Or they could suggest xx date and invite the parties to comment.

It’s not going to be a ‘neutral’ verdict though so why would the ‘winners’ want to agree a timetable that suits the other side?
The only way that might work, I suppose, is that City have won and the PL have said they want a new team in place before the announcement, fresh start and all that, or Khaldoon wants the mother of all statements issued. However, as that seems a tad fanciful, I can’t foresee any reason why, if found innocent of most if not all the charges, City wouldn’t want to shout it from the rooftops asap.

 

[CC1]

The club and the PL have known the outcome since the proceedings were completed in December last year. To claim this verdict has continued to be kept secret by the panel judges since then is absurd.

Whilst it’s obviously going to take considerable time for careful consideration of the panel’s findings - in order to produce the written decision- I’d be surprised if Khaldoon & Mansour haven’t had a full briefing from their very expensive lawyers which will include their expert predictions on how it went & the likely outcome.
We can only interpret this by looking at the club’s financial activities & plans since the “trial” ended.
But they’re doing an excellent job of keeping it to themselves. Although Pep’s behaviour & Haaland’s commitment is maybe a soft signal.

Just my hopeful non legal opinions - of course!!

 

[citizen_maine]

Probably, my only thinking was IF there is a point deduction announced this week, pending appeals,and was a deduction for next season the it could open up a can of worms with teams missing out this season on maybe CL arguing the deduction should apply this season.
Probably overthinking it though and hopefully there is no point deduction anyway.

There's nothing to suggest other teams get any say in when/how sanctions if any, are applied

 

[Coatigan]

Probably, my only thinking was IF there is a point deduction announced this week, pending appeals,and was a deduction for next season the it could open up a can of worms with teams missing out this season on maybe CL arguing the deduction should apply this season.
Probably overthinking it though and hopefully there is no point deduction anyway.

I think it is a more of a case of crossing that bridge when or if we get to it. For everyone concerned, including the club and the league.

 

[1961_vintage]

Ahh cheers, I’m struggling to follow news on the charges from all the news on Fanny Craddock.
So completely missed that.

One of the not-so-well-known known things about Fanny Craddock was her attempts to organise an arranged marriage with the as-then famous children's TV presenter Brian Cant.

If the union had been allowed to go ahead, it would have formed the basis of her plan to relaunch her career as a cockney stand-up comedienne, Fanny Cant.

 

[Dukefan9]

From a wishful mindset- there’s no way that they would tell the parties the verdict before they finish all the legal writings would they? Just announce it to get it over with and then released the documents months later. I would appreciate that

 

[93.20]

egg, bacon and sausage ... would be considered by some gourmands as rather unrefined.

I had egg bacon sausage beans AND chips in the St Pancras spoons yesterday. Proper pond life me

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I expect you’ll still be billing 50 hours to somebody though!! ;-)

Only losers bill by the hour.

 

[Brightwell’s left peg]

Only losers bill by the hour.

I’ve been around some very impressive and rich losers in my time in that case.

 

[blueparrot]

There's nothing to suggest other teams get any say in when/how sanctions if any, are applied

No they won’t but if we were deducted 10 points next week and it was applied next season, then we finished 5th I’m pretty sure the 6th team would kick off. Anuway probably won’t come to that.

 

[Gazza]

One of the not-so-well-known known things about Fanny Craddock was her attempts to organise an arranged marriage with the as-then famous children's TV presenter Brian Cant.

If the union had been allowed to go ahead, it would have formed the basis of her plan to relaunch her career as a cockney stand-up comedienne, Fanny Cant.

I hope you don't write her material, fucking hell that was bad.
But TBF still miles funnier than Lenny Henry.

 

[LeonardoDaVnci]

Lost in the chaos...
The BMF poster who claimed a CFG staffer told him to get the champers ready.
Last week BBC radio, on multiple channels, were pushing Clive Yrie Myrie 115 podcast, for no apparent reason. Sky Sports emailed their footy pundits on guidelines on what not say about the judgement. @Prestwich_Blue posted a highly unusual 'all hands' brief was given to CFG staff last week. My blood pressure issues have resurfaced. All soft indicators of an imminent announcement, ie not months, days.

 

[nmc]

One of the not-so-well-known known things about Fanny Craddock was her attempts to organise an arranged marriage with the as-then famous children's TV presenter Brian Cant.

If the union had been allowed to go ahead, it would have formed the basis of her plan to relaunch her career as a cockney stand-up comedienne, Fanny Cant.

Fanny and Johnny Cradock used to do a very popular TV show, where they'd do a recipe every week. You could write in to get the recipe.

One week they did doughnuts. Johnny finished the show by saying, 'Here’s the address if you want your doughnuts to look like Fanny’s.'