PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

PPT said:
Hopefully. Maybe I’m just pessimistic?
But the PL have gone all out on this one with a death or glory approach. It is the last and final opportunity to finally finish us off. They don’t give a shit about fairness or justice and they don’t have to. They want us gone.
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The problem for the Premier League is that they are being bullied by the eight, or was it nine clubs, who originally wrote and backed that letter. The Premier League would probably prefer that this situation just disappeared.
 
feelymcfeel said:
Per some BBC article on the spuds and Levy, ENIC have promised to put an extra £150m into Spurs. I though owner investment was bad and everything had to come from above board, audited, forensically analysed commercial and matchday revenue?
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Different clubs play by different rules.
Do keep up!
 
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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In general I don't disagree with this, but to be fair..something has come out, hasn't it?

First we had the Der Spiegel leaks, which of course the club says were misquoted and taken out of context (very possible, but I don't think we know the full picture) and then there's the very real possibility that the PL have had information from a whistleblower.

There's also the separate question of how widespread the conspiracy would actually need to be here. I'm not sure it's as wide as some are saying.

Of course this is going to be extremely difficult for the PL to prove, and the inherent implausibility will be a big part of City's defence. But we must admit the possibility that the PL do have some good evidence. I think that even if they were pressured into taking this action (and again that's very possible), it seems very unlikely they'd do so without a respectable basis. Personally, while I do think on balance City are more likely to be successful, I'd be surprised if the PL don't have a respectable case.


For what it's worth I say this as an experienced professional in an adjacent field who has investigated and litigated fraud and misrep cases of this magnitude.
 
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