PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

I’ve missed this ambassador news, is there a link?
"Despite his departure as Manager of Manchester City, Pep will continue his relationship with the City Football Group, by taking up a role as a Global Ambassador. The role will see him giving technical advice to the clubs in the group, working on specific projects and collaborations."

Taken from the official website
 
"Despite his departure as Manager of Manchester City, Pep will continue his relationship with the City Football Group, by taking up a role as a Global Ambassador. The role will see him giving technical advice to the clubs in the group, working on specific projects and collaborations."

Taken from the official website
So a load of side contracts with other clubs then? Another load of charges incoming.
 
He has been reading my posts again ;)

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I'm solid in my belief, based on information from respected sources, that the outcome was decided (and informally known by the parties) within 3 months of the end of the hearing. I also believe the outcome wasn't great for one of those parties, which has been a major contributory factor in the inordinate delay. (Hint: it wasn't City).
 
I'm solid in my belief, based on information from respected sources, that the outcome was decided (and informally known by the parties) within 3 months of the end of the hearing. I also believe the outcome wasn't great for one of those parties, which has been a major contributory factor in the inordinate delay. (Hint: it wasn't City).

So Colin, if thats true, in your opinion, is it damage limitation negotiating now then to minimise the premier league liability in all of this?
 
I'm solid in my belief, based on information from respected sources, that the outcome was decided (and informally known by the parties) within 3 months of the end of the hearing. I also believe the outcome wasn't great for one of those parties, which has been a major contributory factor in the inordinate delay. (Hint: it wasn't City).
How come no leak then that is what I dont understand. There is always a leak
 
I'm solid in my belief, based on information from respected sources, that the outcome was decided (and informally known by the parties) within 3 months of the end of the hearing. I also believe the outcome wasn't great for one of those parties, which has been a major contributory factor in the inordinate delay. (Hint: it wasn't City).

:) One thing he didn't mention in the article was whether such an issue would be grounds for a post-appeal arbitration or, for that matter, a post-arbitration High Court action. If it is, we would be looking at the end of the next decade for a final outcome, not just the end of this decade. I don't care much. I will be dead by then ....

Pretty sure the club's counsel will have been setting out appeal strategies for all contingencies in the last three and a half years. Even if, like you, I am convinced they won't need them.
 
If it wasn’t great for EPL then I guess it wouldn’t look too good for Rosen either ……..?
 
How come no leak then that is what I dont understand. There is always a leak
Nothing has previously leaked with regards to any of the cases vs The PL from City’s end. It’s another reason I am confident, because the Premier League cannot help themselves leaking to their cronies (Ziegler) being the main one, and if City were at serious risk of losing, we’d likely know via these leaks by now.

I don’t think PB is a bullshitter, he found out about the UEFA/CAS decision just after the club did, before the decision was announced, and told us all we’d won. So he has form for ITK credentials.

Maresca agreeing to join and Pep taking another CFG role, surely means those two individuals are confident.

Let’s see, but I think the news is coming before the World Cup. Just got a feeling, and it’s going to be a great week when it does.
 
I think the fact that Pep will still be employed by CFG after he leaves his managerial role speaks volumes of his (and the clubs) view on the result of the case. If they knew, or had any suspicions that it could be a horrible outcome, I'm sure both Pep (to protect himself) and Khaldoon (out of respect for Pep) would have ensured that he was as distanced from the fallout as possible. I may be wrong, but I genuinely believe he would have just completely left if it was about to go tits up
 
Just read Stefan's article. In short, taking 19 months may be seen as too long to get a safe judgement. The reason it took so long is almost certainly (according to the article) so they can get any guilty decisions worded so correctly that the 19 months won't actually become an issue. That about right? Doesn't that simply suggest we have been found guilty on some points and, presumably, some significant ones?
 
So Colin, if thats true, in your opinion, is it damage limitation negotiating now then to minimise the premier league liability in all of this?
I'm speculating wildly here but I've said before that I've been told the PL didn't come out of it well.

Let's say that the outcome was so bad for the PL that there's a possibility of damaging legal action against them over their conduct and of some of their member clubs. Obviously they wouldn't want that, so maybe the delay is due to the two parties trying to reach some sort of settlement outside of the 3-man tribunal. So not about the outcome itself, which was decided soon after the end of the hearing in line with PL rules, but about the potential
consequences of the outcome.

As I say, that's pure speculation but I think it's slightly more feasible than one of the panel members not being able to get a new supply of the ink cartridges they were using to write up their verdict.

How come no leak then that is what I dont understand. There is always a leak

Well the proceedings are meant to be in strict confidence but maybe, as I speculated above, there's a possibility of legal action. Leaks could be very damaging, or even fatal, in that scenario.
 
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Just read Stefan's article. In short, taking 19 months may be seen as too long to get a safe judgement. The reason it took so long is almost certainly (according to the article) so they can get any guilty decisions worded so correctly that the 19 months won't actually become an issue. That about right? Doesn't that simply suggest we have been found guilty on some points and, presumably, some significant ones?
Hasn't he been saying it would take ages since the start?
 
Just read Stefan's article. In short, taking 19 months may be seen as too long to get a safe judgement. The reason it took so long is almost certainly (according to the article) so they can get any guilty decisions worded so correctly that the 19 months won't actually become an issue. That about right? Doesn't that simply suggest we have been found guilty on some points and, presumably, some significant ones?

It's a bit of a circular argument - the panel wants to make sure the judgment can't be appealed on grounds of the length of time it has taken, so they have had to take a long time to write it.

No-one had spoken about this until The Lawyer mentioned it last month - up until then the length of time it was taking was apparently explainable by complexity and volume - so a pinch of salt is probably required.
 
I'm solid in my belief, based on information from respected sources, that the outcome was decided (and informally known by the parties) within 3 months of the end of the hearing. I also believe the outcome wasn't great for one of those parties, which has been a major contributory factor in the inordinate delay. (Hint: it wasn't City).

Let's hope that you are correct.
 
Just read Stefan's article. In short, taking 19 months may be seen as too long to get a safe judgement. The reason it took so long is almost certainly (according to the article) so they can get any guilty decisions worded so correctly that the 19 months won't actually become an issue. That about right? Doesn't that simply suggest we have been found guilty on some points and, presumably, some significant ones?
That assumes, as I said in my post above, that the waiting is for the judgement itself. I doubt it is, as the panel would have been pretty clear on that by the end of the hearing,
 

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