PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

cheekybids said:
Despite what people tell us I believe independence in regulatory bodies & arbitrators is a myth—not because laws don’t demand it, but because power, funding, and appointments quietly shape outcomes. True autonomy only exists when no major stakeholder feels threatened; once political, financial, or reputational risks emerge, influence creeps in through soft pressure, strategic delay, or selective enforcement.
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Spot on. There is always, and always has been, political interference. The recruitment process is always political and there are always back channels. The new football regulator will be politically influenced. That said hopefully it will be an improvement on the current totally corrupt structure where a small cartel of clubs control major decisions within the PL leadership team.
 
halfcenturyup said:
Also telling that Simon Jordan is suddenly and firmly in the "PL PSR should be completely ditched" camp. Which makes sense to me, tbh. It's taken a while but he definitely likes to be in the right. Eventually.......

Soft signals, I suppose.
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Jordan's main source from Club Directors is Levy so you can be very confident that he has been given a heads-up on which way the wind is blowing. I also think Stefan's calm and measured media narrative has had an influence on many in the media. The loons like Delaney and Harris increasingly look like outliers.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Spot on. There is always, and always has been, political interference. The recruitment process is always political and there are always back channels. The new football regulator will be politically influenced. That said hopefully it will be an improvement on the current totally corrupt structure where a small cartel of clubs control major decisions within the PL leadership team.
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It’s in every avenue & most people are trained from birth to do what authority wants without asking. Just like refs, rewards follow so it doesn’t need a brown envelope.

Diplomacy, lobbying, think tanks are all forms of legalised corruption. It’s no different to the mob collecting protection or running the unions.

Regulators, courts, committees will all look for the grey to prove their point when it’s fucking clear. Every day I turn in the news to be gas lit by media & politicians telling me something is different to what I can see & hear.

The problem is little Citeh is innocent & a big fucking player & the premier league is likely the first thing foreigners associate with Britain so they’ve left themselves with a problem. If the premier league, Rags, Dippers, Arsenal all corrupt then what else is? Politics, Finance……. Surely not.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Fucking farcical it’s taken this long, assuming it’s taken this long and there aren’t backchannel conversations going on, to limit damage one way or the other, as the determination has already been circulated to the parties.

I know what some legal professionals have said on here on this point, but I am not so dismissive of this suggestion.

Think it’s perfectly plausible the club officially know the outcome.

Still think it’s going to be fine. All logic points towards that.

Absolutely fucking mental two and a half years.

Never a dull day following this football club!
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What’s that famous old saying….

“The only things certain in life is death & Taxes….and NEVER finding out the 115/30 decision”
 
lonestay said:
Undoubtedly there is some talk going on between City and the prem . City seem cool about it all so I imagine they have a good hand at the table
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I can see it now,the fat red cartel ponce smirks as he reveals 4 of a kind,only for Khaldoon to show a royal flush….”now fuck off you ****”

Be nice that;)
 
Damanino said:
I am 100% sure not one character was written on this decision in the whole of August.
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Are the panel members writing this thing themselves, though? I find it hard to believe they are sat in front of a computer typing 500 pages. Surely they have staff members working on it and, I don't suppose, none of the staff have the entire month of August off?
 
halfcenturyup said:
Are the panel members writing this thing themselves, though? I find it hard to believe they are sat in front of a computer typing 500 pages. Surely they have staff members working on it and, I don't suppose, none of the staff have the entire month of August off?
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Apparently so because this was too sensitive to be entrusted to any lesser staff (according to a BM Forum answer some weeks ago).

I have zero experience working within a legal company but they seem to employ many people so surely they must do something?

Not sure that the panels conclusions should appear in writing after a decision is made by the way does seem a little cart before the horse.
 
Will this thread have more words than the judgement when it's finally released? Will it have 10x the words? 100x? 115...?
 
lonestay said:
Not a deal in the classic sense of a deal to try and make a problem go away before any legal action , but if the prem have now been forced to come to City because it's being proven to them that their rules are illegal and could even be seen as corrupt then they will want to try and see how much of that can be kept out of the public eye, and for that they will be needing Citys cooperation, this is where the likes of Khaldoon and Mansour
Will be striking the best possible deal to ensure the prem never come after us again, and that the prem change how they operate in the future, effectively becoming City's bitches .
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I don't think it's been suggested that PSR rules are illegal? Where would that leave pretty much every other football association who have similar rules.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Jordan's main source from Club Directors is Levy so you can be very confident that he has been given a heads-up on which way the wind is blowing. I also think Stefan's calm and measured media narrative has had an influence on many in the media. The loons like Delaney and Harris increasingly look like outright liars
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Corrected for you
 
halfcenturyup said:
Are the panel members writing this thing themselves, though? I find it hard to believe they are sat in front of a computer typing 500 pages. Surely they have staff members working on it and, I don't suppose, none of the staff have the entire month of August off?
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They will 100% write it themselves in its entirety. Gross dereliction of duty if they don’t.
 
Gordyola said:
Even if it is dumped by the PL they will still have to comply with UEFA Squad Cost Rules
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And UEFA's profitability rules as well, which are stricter but punished less severely than the PL's.

Which is why it makes so much sense to scrap PSR for the PL. PL clubs in European competition will be monitored, and sanctioned if needed, anyway by UEFA on the same basis as other European clubs but other PL clubs will have the chance to invest to catch up.

But that, of course, is why the big six clubs won't support it ....
 
You know what, I'm just thinking about the day we're cleared. For the first time I've realised I won't be celebrating, and I hope the rest of us don't too. When we're cleared we should all be fuming at the whole charade even more than we are now.

Fuck celebrations, that's for those that have "got off". We should never have been charged and we have every right to shout loud about it. That will be the time when we should do nothing but turn up the heat on every other club out there.

Years and years of investigating us and doing their best to sully our name. Now investigate the rest. This is what we as fans need to demand.
 
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