PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

cheekybids said:
The PL sat on the APT until we got frustrated & announced it ourselves. The last shareholder meeting was Tuesday & no leaks from that, absolutely nothing, no snide comments, no club sources providing innuendo. It’s taken 2.5 years to stop any gossip or the media asking whatabout City at the moment you’d imagine the announcement is due. It’s weird because I’d imagine board members having to resign & restructured that would need discussing here & surely that would leak. There’s not even been a leak or gossip what City & the premier league have agreed as part of the APT-settlement.
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A few board members at other clubs though!
 
adr2.8i said:
"soon" can mean so many things........i asked the missus "when can we make love again?" , and she said "soon" .............that was just before covid 19 hit
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Yeah, but how soon is now?

I tend to think that someone who appears in the thread for the first time for a long time, who has a reputation for giving accurate info, doesn't just appear in the thread to say soon without it being imminent.

Imminent, when's that then?
 
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domalino said:
I can’t see them doing it in the international break because it’ll mean 2 whole weeks with nothing to take it out of the news cycle.

If the result is good for City, the PL won’t want to release it and get 12 days of the football media’s full attention.

And if it’s bad for City and they have any say in the release date they won’t want 12 days of focus on how we’re the worst thing ever to happen to football.

The cynic in me says they’ll release it on a Friday at 4pm (probably with a Friday night game) and let a full slate of fixtures immediately take the attention of every football journalist in the country.
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There is logic in that.

In a wider sense though, the collective expectation seems to be that the club and PL would both get the verdict, wait till they have reviewed it and then coordinate the timing of the release. What is that based on, really?

When the charges were announced, by all accounts the club were surprised and found out on the same day. The announcement from the PL was early, got in there quick giving the club little time to prepare a comment, and needed errors corrected afterwards, such was the rush job to get it out.

What's to say when both parties are notified of the decision, there isn't a similar 'race' by the PL to be the first to get the announcement out and in some small way take initial control of the narrative?
 
wolviedinho said:
Says who? They have known for months.

Why be so gullible? Law? Lol

A club that allegedly frauds the world in plain sight doesn’t care about the legal system. Unless it can be useful, as in the apt case.

We won. Waiting on a piece of paper to clear us after spending a fortune over the last few windows and building the millennium falcon -:)

I would say they clearly do know and the points above back that up.

Ain’t no loaded gun or cliffhanger. Nicely worded document will have to do, plus the remuneration and new commercial deals.
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I believe the club are confident in their position hence how they've been operating but there has quite clearly been no decision by the panel.

The biggest decision in world football has not been kept a secret
 
domalino said:
I can’t see them doing it in the international break because it’ll mean 2 whole weeks with nothing to take it out of the news cycle.

If the result is good for City, the PL won’t want to release it and get 12 days of the football media’s full attention.

And if it’s bad for City and they have any say in the release date they won’t want 12 days of focus on how we’re the worst thing ever to happen to football.

The cynic in me says they’ll release it on a Friday at 4pm (probably with a Friday night game) and let a full slate of fixtures immediately take the attention of every football journalist in the country.
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It's an independent panel so I don't see how the PL are in control of timelines.
I also expect that the panel will announce a date and time in advance of the report being released, that's normally what happens.
 
bluemc said:
Playing devil's advocate, neither has the chairperson of the Premier League ;-)
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You are comparing apples to oranges tho, you are comparing an honorable man who is trusted by royals and presidents across the world, who is head of multiple multi national businesses and is instrumental in conducting trillion pound deals with countries to a man who was fourth choice for his current job and who has the spine of a jellyfish and still hasnt resigned despite being found guilty of implementing illegal rules, arguing that the calendar was wrong with leicester and been told it seems he doesnt know what he is doing by a parliamentary enquiry, any one of those three would have made someone with any backbone and sense of decency resign and apologise yet he remains.

These are two very different types of people.
 
mancboy said:
You are comparing apples to oranges tho, you are comparing an honorable man who is trusted by royals and presidents across the world, who is head of multiple multi national businesses and is instrumental in conducting trillion pound deals with countries to a man who was fourth choice for his current job and who has the spine of a jellyfish and still hasnt resigned despite being found guilty of implementing illegal rules, arguing that the calendar was wrong with leicester and been told it seems he doesnt know what he is doing by a parliamentary enquiry, any one of those three would have made someone with any backbone and sense of decency resign and apologise yet he remains.

These are two very different types of people.
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It is bizarre just how many people think Khaldoon would risk all that for a football club.
 
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