PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Didnt we get all of this in March?! Someone on here says it is soon, people get excited, twitter sees the excitement and people start tweeting how soon it is going to be. Those tweets are then copied back on here, people on here get excited....... Then the ITKs suddenly see it and realise they have to jump on the bandwagon too. Meanwhile months and months later we are still waiting?

What is different this time because it seems to be the same hot air.
 
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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Oh don't get me wrong I absolutely agree hence the wink at the end of my prior post.

The downfall of Richard Masters will be delightful to see. Although as much as we want public humiliation for Masters, executives at the red cartel and pundits alike, I expect City's leadership will act with more humility than us fans would. There will be fall guys on the side of the PL but the whole thing will be stage managed to ensure little public damage on either side, which is probably what is being worked through now.
 
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Gorton_Tubster said:
Didnt we get all of this in March?! Someone on here says it is soon, people get excited, twitter sees the excitement and people start tweeting how soon it is going to be. Those tweets are then copied back on here, people on here get excited....... Then the ITKs suddenly see it and realise they have to jump on the bandwagon too. Meanwhile months and months later we are still waiting?

What is different this time because it seems to be the same hot air.
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Nothing is different, it is all pure speculation. Nobody close enough to it to know anything is the type of person to drop hints.
 
blueste41 said:
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.
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Didnt the premier league suppress the APT ruling until City forced their hand
 
give it to gordon said:
It is bizarre just how many people think Khaldoon would risk all that for a football club.
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Exactly. I think there's a degree of egocentrism in all football fans . It's an obsession and a distraction for many of us but quite a few more , who hate our team, have difficulty raising their heads higher than the height of the grass on the pitch when it comes to global politics and power . Any astute commentator would have pointed this out many yonks ago, but we're not dealing with astute , only with a type of symbiotic dependency between the PL and the media .
 
Coatigan said:
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?
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Another Monday and no verdict it appears. So I would say both parties have a variety of responses all written up and ready to go depending on which way the wind blows. The narative will be controlled by the winner most likely and it will be damage limitation for the losing party.
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
The narrative wasn't controlled by the winner in the APT case. I'm still not sure we even won that given the fake narrative our media put out.
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We won insofar that we proved the APT rules unlawful, in practice we achieved little, until we got the out of court Puma sponsorship settlement.
 
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