PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Taking my blue-tinted spectacles off, the more I think about it, the more absurd the notion that the club has systemically and substantially cooked the books becomes.

It would involve a deception on a par with Bernie Madoff, but to involve a much greater conspiracy, in terms of numbers involved. It would also involve incompetence from auditors and banks on a scale similar to the SEC and Bear Stearns in the Madoff case. Logic says the likelihood of all that occurring to be vanishingly small. The serious charges simply make no sense, if logic is applied. There may be a couple of technical breaches, but that would be true of any club.

Conspiracies are notoriously hard to keep going over a sustained period. The bigger, the harder. People fall out, or become aggrieved, or something unforeseeable occurs to move the pieces on the board. Something always happens eventually. The notion this size of conspiracy went on for the period alleged simply doesn’t hold any water.

Something evidential would have come out by now.
 
John Wayne said:
It is slightly different to the UEFA non-cooperation charge. City openly admitted to not complying with a bent UEFA investigation carried out in its adjudicatory chamber. This time, however, we have sent everything that was asked of us UNLESS we were advised that the specific items requested by the PL were not relevant to the investigation. This would include everything post-2018.

I find it very interesting that no charges have been brought against us post-2018, except for non-cooperation. This would tell me that outside of the Der Spiegel/hack material and what we have submitted to the PL, they have nothing.
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As I said before I am not going( as a Chelsea supporter) comment on the validity or otherwise of the charges but will on process.

I am not sure that City would have any grounds to withhold any documents re finances if requested even if they were thought by City to be irrelevant

Power to Inspect
E.1.
Without prejudice to its powers of inquiry under Rule W.1, the Board either by itself or by any Person appointed by it shall be empowered to inspect the financial records of any Club which it reasonably suspects has acted in breach of these Rules.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Taking my blue-tinted spectacles off, the more I think about it, the more absurd the notion that the club has systemically and substantially cooked the books becomes.

It would involve a deception on a par with Bernie Madoff, but to involve a much greater conspiracy, in terms of numbers involved. It would also involve incompetence from auditors and banks on a scale similar to the SEC and Bear Stearns in the Madoff case. Logic says the likelihood of all that occurring to be vanishingly small. The serious charges simply make no sense, if logic is applied. There may be a couple of technical breaches, but that would be true of any club.

Conspiracies are notoriously hard to keep going over a sustained period. The bigger, the harder. People fall out, or become aggrieved, or something unforeseeable occurs to move the pieces on the board. Something always happens eventually. The notion this size of conspiracy went on for the period alleged simply doesn’t hold any water.

Something evidential would have come out by now.
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The Madoff doc is fascinating & I imagine City was run like that under Peter Swales.
 
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