Ultimately last nights ‘developments’ from Mr. Harris read like this to me:
- Rehashing of previous issues already within public domain re email
- Regardless of how MCFC & Etihad communicate in said email, burden of proof comes down to financial transactions between the parties, these were provided to CAS last year & cleared City of the charge of disguising equity funding. Email(s) by and large irrelevant legally.
- Regardless of the above, email used for supposed new story is before PL FFP rules were implemented, if PL choose to proceed on basis supposed wrong-doings impacted future FFP periods they are outside 6 year SoL UK law
- Only way said above SoL law is ‘nullified’ & City ‘guilty’ is if it can be proven that owner funding was indeed disguised. This can’t be done using emails alone (see point 2) so incredibly high bar for PL to prove if it even comes down to that.
Basically storm in a teacup.