PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Brightwell Bros.]

I have nothing against City, as I have said many times over. I hope this is ends up with City cleared of any wrongdoing. Just saying, reading the statement from the league it seems more serious than whatever nonsense had UEFA cooked up to take your to court a few years ago.

It's obviously serious, but I think its very similar to what UEFA had + the not time barred stuff. I suspect much of City's initial defence will be that they've been through much of this already, that if you remove the suspicion that it's read with via the leaked emails that there's simple explanations for much of it, and that they ultimately haven't shared those details with the league because they don't trust them.

My gut feeling is there will be a big fine, particularly on non-compliance, but rival fans wanting titles stripped and us relegated to the conference are setting themselves up for disappointment. Or City really have spent the last decade being almost criminal with their books and sloppy in hiding it.

 

[hertsblue]

From BBC

'City were not given advance warning of the Premier League statement. They were called at the same time the statement was published.'

Man City were not given advance warning of the Premier League statement.

They were called at the same time as the statement went out. They believe some journalists were given advance warning of the statement, which evidently, they are not impressed about.

They also note the timing of the statement given the White Paper on football governance is scheduled to be published soon. It is felt that bringing this case it likely to be used by the Premier League as evidence of them being able to deal with governance issues itself.

City are confident in their position and that includes the charges that were time-barred in their Uefa case. The club are understood to have provided the relevant evidence around those charges to the Premier League some time ago

 

[Eds]

Fuck me this thread has more flappers and rags than a match day thread. Calm the fuck down, we aren't being found guilty of any of this shit that will impact us on the pitch

 

[M18CTID]

Funny how the charges only go back to just after the 2008 takeover. I'm not having it that we were run in a more squeaky clean way when Doctor Death (Shinawatra) owned us!

 

[lionellettuce]

FUGAZI

 

[pudge]

So what next? Independent Panel?

 

[Paul1970]

Let’s all settle down. If we get found guilty then more than likely it will 15 points deducted and a big fine . No titles are being stripped and we are not being relegated .

 

[Academica]

I wish people would stop posting stupid inane comments, I don’t know if they are trying to lighten the mood or whatever, but it’s not funny, witty or helpful. This is serious shit and we need to treat it as such.

 

[creditunionhero]

@SWP's back

I'm not going to check over all the pages to see if this was answered already, but you were asking for a source on the claim any possible appeal goes to the high court rather than to CAS. I'm not a lawyer or anything, and have only skimmed PL rules, but this could be the relevant section:

https://resources.premierleague.com/premierleague/document/2022/07/19/40085fed-1e9e-4c33-9f14-0bcf57857da2/PL_Handbook_2022-23_DIGITAL_18.07.pdf

Agreement to Arbitrate
X.2. Membership of the League shall constitute an agreement in writing between the League and each Club, between the League and each Director of each Club and between each Club for the purposes of section 5 of the Act in the following terms:
X.2.1. to submit all disputes which arise between them (including in the case of a Relegated Club any dispute between it and a Club or the League, the cause of action of which arose while the Relegated Club was a member of the League), whether arising out of these Rules or otherwise, to final and binding arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Act and this Section of these Rules;
X.2.2. that the seat of each such arbitration shall be in England and Wales;
X.2.3. that the issues in each such arbitration shall be decided in accordance with English law; and
X.2.4. that no other system or mode of arbitration will be invoked to resolve any such dispute.

This is fine "X.2.3. that the issues in each such arbitration shall be decided in accordance with English law;"
We will have to treated as innocent until Proved guilty. It don't think it will prevent us taking it to a higher court.

 

[OrigamiNinja]

30 charges relate to non-compliance with the investigation.

25 relate to profit and sustainability.

5 relate to the non-compliance with UEFA, which we were already fined for.

12 relate to breach of details on how much was paid to players between 2010-2016

8 relate to breach the details of how much was paid to managers between 2009-2013

50 relate to accuracy of financial reports to the PL.


Like I said, good luck proving all of that and if we found guilty of a few we will fight it in the higher courts.

This is the one that is at odds with Citys statement. If the PL have asked for something and we haven’t given it them (for whatever reason) we must know that a charge for non-compliance is coming our way. How the frig are we “surprised” if we haven’t complied 30 times?