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Thank God. I thought I was going crazy.

Yes, your point was right but I was replying to someone who suggested the IC wouldn't even consider limitation.

The allegations already include breaching FFP over a number of assessment periods. My guess is they have adjusted earnings before tax for the effects of each of the alleged breaches and made the allegations on that basis. Personally, I think the only matter that would push the club into a...

It depends which allegations you are talking about, imho. And what the allegations actually are. Proving an allegation doesn't automatically mean "knowing concealment" (proving fraud presumably does). And I am not sure a mistake, or a difference in interpretation on an accounting matter, if you...

They know what Israel is doing and support it. They have since this latest episode started, and before, for that matter. As for the earlier post about Iran, they don't care one jot about Israel and therefore the plight of the Palestinians other than as a stick to beat the Great Satan with. Iran...

Big test for all three clubs at the weekend. Let's see which squad has the biggest balls ...... (I think we know already)

If only we had Palmer on the pitch at the end of the game to take one of those "easy to score" penalties. ** lights touch paper and retires **

You think the panel will be ignoring time limitation in its judgment and imposing penalties on all matters irrespective of the event dates, and then the club will have to appeal to the High Court to have the Limitation Act applied to the judgment?

I would imagine they are alleging the club acted in bad faith and presented incorrect financial information to UEFA for the years up to 2018. Now, what UEFA could do with that is anyone's guess but I would imagine, even if UEFA had the energy to reopen the club's case, which I doubt, it would...

Another problem is that football has a pyramid. If you reduce the gap between top and bottom in the PL, you are just increasing the gap between the bottom of the PL and the top of the Championship. It also has to be balanced with other European leagues if the PL wants to maintain its place, and...

He isn't entirely wrong though, even if he doesn't help himself sometimes with the way he puts his points across.

But they have been instigated purely with the desired outcome (for the PL) of the club failing FFP. They want to restate the accounts for Etihad's and possibly Etisalat's "disguised equity funding", the fair value of those and other AD sponsorships, Mancini's salary, the Fordham expenses, the...

It's a tricky problem to solve. Fwiw, I favour no cost control in the PL as long as there is FFP at UEFA level (so that the top 7/8 must comply), but then a proactive monitoring of losses (you expect to make losses next year, put the equity in now) together with some proactive controls of...

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It's pretty clear most of the allegations are the same as those that were either rejected by CAS in 2020 for the years that weren't time limited, or were found by CAS in 2020 to be time limited (which makes sense as the two investigations are based on the same "evidence"), or were investigated...

Damn. You beat me to it :(

Pretty much everything found in the club's favour was 2-1 with UEFA's German voting against (presumably as it wasn't declared). The few things found in favour of UEFA (some procedural stuff and non-compliance) were unanimous, iirc.

Not sure having some form of financial control is a minority opinion on here. The issue is balancing an owners' right to invest in a club against, firstly, putting the club at financial risk on the one hand and, secondly, increasing competition within, and the competitiveness of, the league...

Arteta is a bit of an empty vessel, I think. He picked up what Guardiola does, but he doesn't understand why. So he can't change to a plan B if it's not working.

Not sure, but isn't it two different things? i) Everton have borrowed money and are repaying over 400k per week. ii) 777 have to repay some of their own debt before the PL will approve the take-over. But they don't have any cash? Anyone?