PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[mattcity5]

The club site is down, is this a hard signal?

We're probably just being hacked so that they can find something new to charge us with when this goes away...

 

[Paul lakes knee]

Might be another hack or AWS problem, a few websites seem to be down, LinkedIn for example

 

[Milesvk]

The club site is down, is this a hard signal?

Probably Liverpool trying to find some new players to get them going again.

 

[chocovla]

Cloudflare seems to be down again. Loads of sites are down. It appears our club's website's behind Cloudflare.

 

[mad4city]

Maybe there will never be a decision?
Perhaps we are all only characters in a lost novel, written and discarded by Kafka or Flann O'Brien?

 

[DiscoSteve]

The (Blue) Matrix?

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Maybe there will never be a decision?
Perhaps we are all only characters in a lost novel, written and discarded by Kafka or Flann O'Brien?

Jeez, dumb it down will you …

Perhaps we are all only characters in a lost episode of Dallas.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

So are the informed and knowledgeable still saying this has to probably happen before Xmas?

It's definately but seeming that way to me.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Maybe there will never be a decision?
Perhaps we are all only characters in a lost novel, written and discarded by Kafka or Flann O'Brien?

Technically it's possible that if we're fully exonerated, or maybe have an immaterial financial penalty imposed for non-cooperation, that the outcome will never be publicly known.

If part of the outcome involves the PL being severely embarrassed, there's no way they'd want that to be known publicly. Potentially there could be a watertight NDA or gagging order.

Given the public interest in this I'd say that scenario is unlikely, but if we're still no wiser in 6 or even 12 months then that could be interesting.

 

[halfcenturyup]

So are the informed and knowledgeable still saying this has to probably happen before Xmas?

It's definately but seeming that way to me.

Who are these people of whom you speak?

 

[Centurions]

Technically it's possible that if we're fully exonerated, or maybe have an immaterial financial penalty imposed for non-cooperation, that the outcome will never be publicly known.

If part of the outcome involves the PL being severely embarrassed, there's no way they'd want that to be known publicly. Potentially there could be a watertight NDA or gagging order.

Given the public interest in this I'd say that scenario is unlikely, but if we're still no wiser in 6 or even 12 months then that could be interesting.

An NDA has to be signed by all parties and I can't see City doing that, the PL or the panel can't issue gagging orders and there's no reason for the courts to be involved.

 

[chaddblue]

Technically it's possible that if we're fully exonerated, or maybe have an immaterial financial penalty imposed for non-cooperation, that the outcome will never be publicly known.

If part of the outcome involves the PL being severely embarrassed, there's no way they'd want that to be known publicly. Potentially there could be a watertight NDA or gagging order.

Given the public interest in this I'd say that scenario is unlikely, but if we're still no wiser in 6 or even 12 months then that could be interesting.

And everybody will say we were guilty and paid off the PL to make it go away for ever more and the club won't ever be able to answer back

 

[pudge]

Sunrise, sunset

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

An NDA has to be signed by all parties and I can't see City doing that, the PL or the panel can't issue gagging orders and there's no reason for the courts to be involved.

I agree about the courts but maybe the quid pro quo for us keeping quiet was the waving through of the sponsorship deals?

 

[Centurions]

I agree about the courts but maybe the quid pro quo for us keeping quiet was the waving through of the sponsorship deals?

That wouldn't play out well in the public court, I'd have thought the club would be looking for something more positive myself. Hell, the other clubs wouldn't accept that.

 

[Gazza]

Maybe there will never be a decision?
Perhaps we are all only characters in a lost novel, written and discarded by Kafka or Flann O'Brien?

Written by Monty Python is more likely.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

That wouldn't play out well in the public court, I'd have thought the club would be looking for something more positive myself. Hell, the other clubs wouldn't accept that.

Who knows what deals get done behind closed doors. If the outcome was potentially catastrophic for the PL then it would be in the other clubs' interest to keep it under wraps. But I agree while that's theoretically possible, it does beggars belief somewhat.

 

[pudge]

There is absolutely zero chance anything is resolved behind closed doors, shrouded in secrecy, agreed on private etc

Get the tin foil hats off

 

[lefty goldblatt]

Written by Monty Python is more likely.

We are very naughty boys, though Pep IS the Messiah

 

[halfcenturyup]

I agree about the courts but maybe the quid pro quo for us keeping quiet was the waving through of the sponsorship deals?

Not sure they can do that but, even if they could, it would be unbelievably weird if it happened. Mind you, this is the PL we are talking about.

On a separate but not unrelated note, I wonder what that busybody judge is thinking having decided the process was in the public interest and should be disclosed against the wishes of the parties, only for the public to have no information for three years...... Just what was the point?