Chelsea hit with 74 FA charges for alleged rule breaches

Tracking back said:
Breaking News on Sly Sports:

"The club (Chelsea) has demonstrated unprecedented transparency during this process including; giving comprehensive access to the Club's files, emails and historical data."

Chelsea.......... it continues: "will continue to work collaboratively with the FA to conclude this matter as swiftly as possible."

The media are doing a thorough job to reassure the public that there's no innuendo or doubt that the (American) owner Todd Boehly has done anything untoward.

See! They can do it, if they want to.

But there's no media bias.......... apparently.
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Has our dear friend Moaninho had his 3 titles stripped yet ? He's been a strong supporter for integrity, particularly for FFP !
 
Centurions said:
Kaveh Solhekol has been busy explaining why it wouldn't be fair on the present owners and players to do more than fine them.
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Yes.

I saw that.

I think the gist of Kaveh's advocacy towards Todd Boehly, is that he's an American.

But there's no media bias.......... apparently.
 
pauls said:
Has our dear friend Moaninho had his 3 titles stripped yet ? He's been a strong supporter for integrity, particularly for FFP !
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Yes indeed.

However, his integrity only applies to other clubs' adhering to the financial fair play rules.
 
blue is best said:
No it doesn’t seem to, I mean surely due diligence would be front and centre when checking the accounts of the business you are going to be throwing a few billion at to acquire.
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My understanding is that there would have been some sort of confidentiality agreement in place which would have restricted BlueCo from doing anything with matters revealed during DD until they were confirmed as the new owners.
Once the purchase was completed then the matter was reported to the PL, FA &UEFA.
manimanc said:
Haven't we got a couple of Chelsea fans on here?

They've been pretty vocal on our alleged charges.
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If you go back over my posts re our issues I have always suggested we were going to get a charge .
It’s a pity we don’t get full details of the FA charges but what we do know is that it is unlikely that we will defend the allegations meaning that it will move pretty quickly to sanctions.
Nothing is off the table but I can’t but help think that we are seeing almost an agreed
process playing out here.
I find our statement far too close to arse licking. The only reason I can possibly think we are sucking up to them is there has to be more that we don’t know about discussions between us and the FA
I said a while ago that I thought our matters will be dealt with before yours and I suspect that will be the case.
There will I believe more charges for us from the PL, once the FA case is resolved, the PL charges , will be around incorrect financial information.
 
terraloon said:
My understanding is that there would have been some sort of confidentiality agreement in place which would have restricted BlueCo from doing anything with matters revealed during DD until they were confirmed as the new owners.
Once the purchase was completed then the matter was reported to the PL, FA &UEFA.

If you go back over my posts re our issues I have always suggested we were going to get a charge .
It’s a pity we don’t get full details of the FA charges but what we do know is that it is unlikely that we will defend the allegations meaning that it will move pretty quickly to sanctions.
Nothing is off the table but I can’t but help think that we are seeing almost an agreed
process playing out here.
I find our statement far too close to arse licking. The only reason I can possibly think we are sucking up to them is there has to be more that we don’t know about discussions between us and the FA
I said a while ago that I thought our matters will be dealt with before yours and I suspect that will be the case.
There will I believe more charges for us from the PL, once the FA case is resolved, the PL charges , will be around incorrect financial information.
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Good honest post that, applauds
 
terraloon said:
My understanding is that there would have been some sort of confidentiality agreement in place which would have restricted BlueCo from doing anything with matters revealed during DD until they were confirmed as the new owners.
Once the purchase was completed then the matter was reported to the PL, FA &UEFA.

If you go back over my posts re our issues I have always suggested we were going to get a charge .
It’s a pity we don’t get full details of the FA charges but what we do know is that it is unlikely that we will defend the allegations meaning that it will move pretty quickly to sanctions.
Nothing is off the table but I can’t but help think that we are seeing almost an agreed
process playing out here.
I find our statement far too close to arse licking. The only reason I can possibly think we are sucking up to them is there has to be more that we don’t know about discussions between us and the FA
I said a while ago that I thought our matters will be dealt with before yours and I suspect that will be the case.
There will I believe more charges for us from the PL, once the FA case is resolved, the PL charges , will be around incorrect financial information.
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Incorrect financial information has a much simpler moniker: Fraud.
 
Centurions said:
Kaveh Solhekol has been busy explaining why it wouldn't be fair on the present owners and players to do more than fine them.
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And yet paying agents and players off books during transfer deals is about as bad as it gets in terms of sporting integrity. Not quite as bad as Juventus bribing refs and rival players to fix matches....but a lot worse than even the worst allegations against City that our owner allegedly topped up sponsor income from his own pocket.
 
waspish said:
Think this through now some owner cheats like fuck then sells the club to a mate he cheats like fuck and sells it to a mate! Sorry it’s Chelsea football clubs who are cheats they got the sporting advantage! Imagine if they didn’t get Hazard we did or another team? Because he only went to Chelsea because he and his agent got paid of the books by the Russian
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yeah but Hazard and Willian didnt know honest guv
 
Citizen of Legoland said:
Of course they should be punished. You can’t just break rules and expect wrongdoings to get written off when the ownership changes. That’s the buyer’s fault, they should ensure that they have a way to make a claim against the seller for any financial punishments received in this way or accept the risk.
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The timing of these announcements by the PL seem very tactical. They have settled the APT case and now they are seen to be pursuing Chelsea properly. It is almost as if they are trying to soften the blow of being damaged in the 115 case. Comms people spend a lot of time thinking about the timing of these things. The PL defensive narrative for the 115 case is bloody obvious.
The false narrative is: "We did our best with City but they were obstructive and we couldn't conduct our investigation as fully as we would like. We don't regret the decision though because we have a duty to all PL clubs to investigate such serious allegations. We treat all clubs the same. Look at Chelsea. The club alerted us to the financial discrepancies and co-operated so we could carry out our investigation. We will always act in the best interest of clubs and the integrity of our national sport."
This message will be drip fed to the usual suspects in the UK media and the PL-friendly Club Directors in off the record briefings because the official public statement will be bland to reduce legal risks. My gut feeling is (unless it is this weekend) the publicity will be stage-managed in the October international break.
 
hertsblue said:
Funny how it all charges seem to be against the teams threatening the red top cartel, us and now Chelsea. Yet they allowed the Rags to get away with over 3 times the allowed PSR amounts due to dodgy covid claims. When UEFA found the Rags guilty of their FFP, surely the PL should have investigated as probably so much to find re transfer deals inc friendlies that never took please, the Bebe transfer stank to high heaven and probably so much more
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And Tevez from Wet Spam.....
 
terraloon said:
My understanding is that there would have been some sort of confidentiality agreement in place which would have restricted BlueCo from doing anything with matters revealed during DD until they were confirmed as the new owners.
Once the purchase was completed then the matter was reported to the PL, FA &UEFA.

If you go back over my posts re our issues I have always suggested we were going to get a charge .
It’s a pity we don’t get full details of the FA charges but what we do know is that it is unlikely that we will defend the allegations meaning that it will move pretty quickly to sanctions.
Nothing is off the table but I can’t but help think that we are seeing almost an agreed
process playing out here.
I find our statement far too close to arse licking. The only reason I can possibly think we are sucking up to them is there has to be more that we don’t know about discussions between us and the FA
I said a while ago that I thought our matters will be dealt with before yours and I suspect that will be the case.
There will I believe more charges for us from the PL, once the FA case is resolved, the PL charges , will be around incorrect financial information.
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I have no problem with Chelsea. I am glad they knocked United off their perch for a while. It is the corrupt PL leadership and their hypocrisy that bugs me most. Are we seriously expected to belive that LFC, MUFC, and AFC have not paid agents and players off book cash bonuses (to avoid tax). City are being hammered for Ya Ya Toure's image rights deal (four years before FFP came in). All major players in the world had similar deals. In fact the Inland Revenue allowed it at that time. We were cleared by CAS of breaching UEFA FFP but the PL launched a witchunt going back 15 years. United breached UEFA FFP but there was no investigation by the PL.
 
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