PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

canyerdogputoutafire said:
Unfortunately for me atleast, I have been diagnosed with another cancer to go with my prostate cancer which fortunately can be operated on. I have just returned from something called prehabilitation, no me neither. The physio asked me to walk briskly for 6 minutes and also enquired about my week in which I informed him I had been to the co-op arena to say goodbye to the lads. Well City bingo ensued, sinking ship, 60 points, hoodwinked sponsors. So I asked him how did he feel about Rashford coming back on £375.000 a week, silence
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Good luck with both cancer treatments, Blue.
Hopeful for 100% remission in both.
 
Not concerned at all in the slightest and haven't since the allegations and charges were made over 3 years ago, look at all the companies that have partnered up with City over past 3 years, Kellogs and Silentnight being 2 of more local ones , why would these companies tarnish their integrity and cause reputational damage by joining 'cheats' ? simply they wouldn't and would want reassurance before any financial commitment, the lunatics have been released from the asylum following Pep's departure with absolutely wild conspiracy theories whilst all claiming to be in the know when the reality is Pep and City have ruined them for years and by calling us 'cheats' is a excuse for their clubs failings when the reality they just cannot except that City are better than them all both on and off the pitch and we definitely aren't the club they all claimed to feel for back in the 90's
 
Stoned Rose said:
Tbf this dickhead might actually be right.

I’ve said for ages there’s no way the parties don’t know the decision yet.
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Of course it is entirely likely that they don't know the decision! I've seen you claim this a number of times now.

What do you think, the panel at the end of the hearing just casually said, aye don't worry lads, you are all in the clear, see you in 2 years with the written up verdict? Or the other way round?

The lawyers may well have felt how they thought it mught have went, but that's not in any way the same as eithet party knowing the outcome.
 
St Helens Blue (Exiled) said:
For those that are interested.
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Interesting that the Tragic Twat is still referring to last year's change of lead auditor as if it has any significance. A cursory review of the accounts since the takeover show Julien Rye as lead in 2009-2016, Stuart Wood in 2017-2024 and Safiq Isa as new lead last year. It seems BDO has an eight year rotation policy. Absolutely not unusual on high-profile clients. Nothing more unusual than that imho.

Changing lead may have had some effect on how the case was disclosed, though. There were certainly some changes in that respect last year, iirc.
 
.db. said:
Even if we are not guilty of a single one of the proper financial regulations they have accused us of breaking, we will likely be found guilty of the non-coöperation charges so everyone will forever say we were guilty just like they have with the CAS/UEFA case.

Plus, like the CAS/UEFA case, even when the financial charges were found to be unsubstantiated, everyone just pulled out the bits from the report that had what UEFA accused us of and said that the CAS report said we were guilty. Some were in full understanding of what they were doing, many were just too stupid to understand that they were just quoting the accusations and not the verdict.

All of this will forever be spun against us and we will forever be seen as cheats and all our success seen as invalid. We will never be respected, we will never be accepted, because the fans of the Redshirts and media luvvies are all too insecure to allow us to be seen at their level.

Most of us have thick skin as a fanbase so will be able to rise above it, but it will always be there and will always follow us around.

I kind of like it because I’ve never wanted to be sycophantically loved by the masses and the media and it’s always much cooler to be a sub-culture than mainstream. But some fans do want the respect and acceptance and think we deserve it so it will be tough for them.
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We rise above whatever is thrown at us.
And that's why supporting City is so important.
Our character building over years of being the laughing stock of The Football League has taught us to laugh at adversity and support our chosen Team.
 
halfcenturyup said:
Interesting that the Tragic Twat is still referring to last year's change of lead auditor as if it has any significance. A cursory review of the accounts since the takeover show Julien Rye as lead in 2009-2016, Stuart Wood in 2017-2024 and Safiq Isa as new lead last year. It seems BDO has an eight year rotation policy. Absolutely not unusual on high-profile clients. Nothing more unusual than that imho.

Changing lead may have had some effect on how the case was disclosed, though. There were certainly some changes in that respect last year, iirc.
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Yeah, we are fully audited every three years and for the third of three, the lead auditor introduces a new one to our processes and is then never seen again.
 
Coatigan said:
Of course it is entirely likely that they don't know the decision! I've seen you claim this a number of times now.

What do you think, the panel at the end of the hearing just casually said, aye don't worry lads, you are all in the clear, see you in 2 years with the written up verdict? Or the other way round?

The lawyers may well have felt how they thought it mught have went, but that's not in any way the same as eithet party knowing the outcome.
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The most important element here is that City will already know if they’ve broken any rules. City won’t need charges, a panel or a big debate on Talksport to tell them this. They’ll already have known. Let’s not lose sight of City’s public response of irrefutable evidence and putting this shit to bed once and for all. In my opinion if City knew they’d been naughty they’d have coughed it, entered into a plea bargain type scenario and asked for proceedings to be conducted in private. There’s no way they’d have stood on and come out with the irrefutable line and dragged the club through a public mud slinging for years.

I’m extremely well versed in court cases having participated in and given evidence in, around 200 with my job. If I can hear the evidence and read the room, I’m 100% sure a collection of KCs can.

Every KC in that room will have formed a global view and probably a micro view re each charge as the hearing unfolded. You are right to say they cannot “know” what the outcome is going to be, but they will very well know which way the wind has blown and how the decision is very likely to go. These charges are not like a criminal trial where doubt can be introduced. These charges are binary. You either have breached a rule or you haven’t. There can’t be any “erm, well, I’m not sure, what do you think about it?” in play. You’ve either breached a rule or you haven’t.

Given this, the KCs can be as sure as they can be, in lieu of an official verdict.

City will have debriefed with their legal team and all business manoeuvres since then will have been based on the KCs and City’s top men’s hearing of the evidence and their reading of that room. In my opinion, City’s commercial activity since looks like a club with supreme confidence that nothing serious is coming their way. In fact, it just looks like business as usual.

My own view is that it cannot possibly have taken this long to provide the parties with the outcome. I know there are various schools of thought on both sides but for me, nah, I’m not having it.

I can’t explain the silence though. There must be something going on we don’t know about.
 
VYisaBLUE said:
Not bothered with whatever happens, I would enjoy a romp through the Championship if that's what is ordered up. Some dodgy accounting, allegedly, can't take away the Yaya goal v Stoke or the Aguero moment or the Rodri banger, or the 4-in-a-row
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Exactly, we’ve lived the actual experience and the emotions that came with it, all safely locked away forever in our psyche.

No ‘panel’ can ever take those away, regardless of the verdict.
 
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