I've a feeling that all those that Peps pointed the finger at will be reluctant to take civil action because City may actually have something on them personally.I would love Levy to have the balls to call pep out if he is that arsed
Not leak stories to the press
Sue pep you little pussy, you hate spending money any anything so stop threatening spend it on lawyers
I’ve watched it three times! Incredible story. Truly amazing he got away with it, for as long as he did. So it happens. Enron is another example. But I’ll bet a pound to a pinch of shit that’s not the case here and anyone who thinks it’s likely to have happened is an idiot.The Madoff doc is fascinating & I imagine City was run like that under Peter Swales.
I keep coming to the same conclusion.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.
There are a couple of other examples where a CEO and accounts auditors have colluded to artificially inflate revenues, mainly to increase the companies share price - Enron and World CommTaking 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.
Exactly. The people involved have too much to lose from being inveigled into a conspiracy like this.I keep coming to the same conclusion.
And ultimately the thing that fans want us charged with (related companies pumping money into the club due to social influence) isn't what we are charged with cos it's totally fine. So why would Etihad Airways refuse to pump the money in from their own accounts? Why would their commercial director be like "oh yeah, there's a football team that wants me commit a career ending cooking of the books when I could just actually take up a sponsorship deal that looks decent on my CV". None of it makes sense.
Ha ha ha , like we care
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.
I can think of one, yes…Has anyone heard anyone who is legally qualified put out an alternative view to this that generally says City are fucked and the premier league can get all these charges over the line? I’ve not heard one yet.
Pep was the outstanding leader he has always been with a fly in his mouth that he wanted to spit out. English isn’t even his first language but brilliantly eloquent.The amount of comments before Pep’s conference that Pep should not be there alone to take the questions. That is why we did. No more perfect response than the manager himself defending our club. Very very powerful and took them all by surprise.
After about a month it’ll only be in the forefront of the minds of United Liverpool and Arsenal fans.I think that goes beyond banter tbh, and probably just a taste of what to expect week in week out.