PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Blue_Lightsaber]

no, the club, but it was in response to another poster saying do we know what the PL have so that there is no smoking gun.

Lots have people have mentioned this. If this is the case and and we, the club, know exactly what the PL have, then why is anybody worried?

Kangaroo court anxiety.

It's natural since they're trying to literally go for our jugular here!

 

[Gundoggin]

The fact they are going us in the first place, they obviously think they have something on us.

PL bullish ?
I think they have dug their own grave !

 

[Silva2021]

Over the week I have mellowed a bit on this.

I absolutely hate all the grubby hands behind it, however I’m getting the feeling that we have not co-operated and tried to derail this wherever we can.

The PL rightly or wrongly started this investigation and over the 4 years and have nothing further to go on due to City providing nothing further.

We hoped with no evidence more then CAS, they would not gone with charges and they have not.

However, if that is the case the PL are not necessarily to blame.

It would be our legal advice or that we are comfortable of what would happen in this stage of the process.

Like everyone else, I would like a quick resolution but it seems unlikely.

We seem to be indicating years to resolve (subtle way of saying to PL, it’s going to cost you a lot).

 

[Manchester_lalala]

UEFA weren't disputing that Etihad paid MCFC, they were alleging that ADUG gave the money to Etihad to pay MCFC. This, apparently, would be part of a conspiracy to fraudulently increase sponsorship income at MCFC, presumably over and above what Etihad could have paid without the funds from ADUG.

Don't buy it myself, but I think that was the crux of it.

I’m now law expert, but do City or Etihad even have to prove that the funds were fully paid by Etihad? I know this has already been dealt with it at CAS, but if UEFA asked to see the transactions in both ADUG’s and Etihad’s books can we politely tell them to fuck off? Is that when the failing to cooperate charges occur?

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Only thing I can think of is Rui Pinto gave the PL more info, or different information than EUFA got there hands on.

It would have been presented in the four years of litigation.

Premier League would have sought a quiet resolution.

 

[pardoeofftomexico]

Over the week I have mellowed a bit on this.

I absolutely hate all the grubby hands behind it, however I’m getting the feeling that we have not co-operated and tried to derail this wherever we can.

The PL rightly or wrongly started this investigation and over the 4 years and have nothing further to go on due to City providing nothing further.

We hoped with no evidence more then CAS, they would not gone with charges and they have not.

However, if that is the case the PL are not necessarily to blame.

It would be our legal advice or that we are comfortable of what would happen in this stage of the process.

Like everyone else, I would like a quick resolution but it seems unlikely.

We seem to be indicating years to resolve (subtle way of saying to PL, it’s going to cost you a lot).

 

[KS55]

It all depends on what city have done to cooperate.

With UEFA, City didn’t even present evidence in their defence until CAS.

The CFCB specifically asked for the testimony of Pearce and Hogan (City’s main defence against the charges was their testimony that what was discussed in the email didn’t happen) and they refused to give it until City were charged, convicted, banned, appealed and reached CAS

City produced a dossier of the “irrefutable evidence” to the investigatory chamber. Leterme, iirc, declined to read it.

 

[wolviedinho]

I think Leterme sort of hints that they’ve been speaking with the PL about their investigation. He said the PL’s evidence is a lot more solid, or something along those lines.

This is what I am getting at. I hope the club have not been blindsided and that we are playing a clever game knowing the premier league was coming for us and actually do want the information that proves our innocence to come out. The second option would be remarkable.

 

[wolviedinho]

City produced a dossier of the “irrefutable evidence” to the investigatory chamber. Leterme, iirc, declined to read it.

Too busy counting his bung money.

 

[jrb]

Pep for Prime Minister exclusive.



The government has no plans to rewrite the white paper on independent football regulation in response to the Premier League’s charges against Man City, sources have told Football Insider.

The policy proposal – the most significant shake-up to football governance in England in a generation – had been due for publication earlier this month but has now been pushed back to the end of February.

But Football Insider has been told by a senior source that the situation will have no impact on the substance of the white paper, which was leaked to the press in late January.

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport believes that the Premier League’s intervention does not affect the reforms that are needed in football.

Man City charges will have no impact on independent regulator - sources

Football Insider has learned that The government has no plans to rewrite the white paper on independent football regulation in responde to Man City charges.

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