PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Pingu the Penguin]

The PL didn't inform City before they announched the charges but informed the usual suspects (journalists).

Says it all.

It's really helpful

 

[Gordyola]

I get all this but I will admit I'm worried by this latest chapter. We all know why this has been happening over the years and who's behind it. They tried to get us using Europe and indeed actually banned us. Unfortunately for them we had CAS which rightly found in our favour. That failing they've gone down the easier route, the premier league. Now we may be innocent but if the fuckers judging us are in cahoots with our enemies and find us guilty we are fucked as apparently there's no equivalent of CAS to appeal to. We will know it's a stitch up but there will be no way on God's earth any of the rabid anti City mob and media will report it that way.

Not having CAS will mean we can go to law and let the courts decide

Agreed. Find the people who insist on defending the board/ownership bizarre. They are not the club, the fans are, and they've embarrassed us. Regardless of the outcome the damage has already been done. Soriano has to walk and I'd be surprised if Khaldoon doesn't take a big step back in the future as well. We were there before them and we'll be there if they decide this isn't worth the effort anymore.

You find it bizarre and are calling for resignations for something thats unproven? that what I find bizarre
Its taken the EPL 4 years to come up with these charges if there was anything substantial it wouldn't have taken that long

 

[jollylescott]

From BBC

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

So much for due process and natural justice. Their contempt for us is clearly venomous.

 

[manimanc]

Agreed. Find the people who insist on defending the board/ownership bizarre. They are not the club, the fans are, and they've embarrassed us. Regardless of the outcome the damage has already been done. Soriano has to walk and I'd be surprised if Khaldoon doesn't take a big step back in the future as well. We were there before them and we'll be there if they decide this isn't worth the effort anymore.

As if your post has input to discussions.

Take yourself and your 2 wanker posts back to the red shithole.

 

[KS55]

Bottle of Stella in hand mate, I'm fucking fuming, all the way to the High Court this if that nerdy ponce finds us guilty. The Premier League has shit on the team who has driven the quality of their product and increased its world wide audience. These are thunderbastards, make no mistake.

Too much gloom on this thread, I reckon. We are a long way from being found guilty—years possibly. A large tranche of the charges will be dropped and we can concentrate on the ones that count.
Chin up everybody, City for ever.

 

[Indaparkside]

Hope we don't have to replay the 6-1

I know we’d have to change the song it should of been 12

 

[chaddblue]

Hope we don't have to replay the 6-1

Why not? We might actually score 10 next time

 

[argyle]

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?

City believe they have complied. Plus it depends on what the PL was asking for, City may have thought they were fishing for something and were well within their rights to refuse.

 

[kaz7]

Not his first rodeo by the looks of things...​

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Murray Rosen QC has been a full-time arbitrator and mediator, specialising in sports disputes since 2016. He is an arbitrator at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in Lausanne (CAS) where he has sat on more than 20 cases. He is the first Chair of the new Premier League Judicial Panel, and was formerly chair of the Table Tennis England Board of Appeal. He has sat in many ad hoc and disciplinary tribunals, usually as chairman, for the Football Association, Football League and International Tennis Federation and other associations. He has also mediated in disputes between players and clubs, associations and media bodies. Sports involved have also included rugby, tennis, pentathlon, Formula 1 and rallying, swimming, boxing and snooker.​

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He has also been on the Sport Resolutions panel since its outset (as the Sport Disputes Resolution Panel) and helped to draft the first revision to its rules. As counsel for over 30 years he appeared in relation to a wide variety of sports, including motor sport, boxing, snooker and athletics. was the founding chairman of the Bar Sports Law Group and a chairman and director of the British Association for Sport and Law.​

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He is a strong believer in fairness and in the power and benefits of sport and has a keen appreciation of its social, political and financial aspects. He has participated in sport all his life, is a member of the MCC and Arsenal FC, and still regularly plays real tennis and ping pong. His knowledge of the sports scene and the issues which arise, both commercial and regulatory, in relation to the governance of sport, and its competitions and events, makes him a sympathetic hands-on tribunal chairman and a successful mediator. He has recently initiated an ad hoc working party consulting and reporting on the Impact of Covid-19 on sport disputes resolution procedures, supported and published by LawinSport.​

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This is further cause for concern. The person pushing through these charges is not some disgraced fromer Prime Minister of Belgium now on UEFA's teat, or some career football beurocrat. This guy is a genuine expert in the field he's operating in.

Arsenal FC it says , hmmm

 

[domalino]

Interesting. A breakaway European super League may be nearer than we all think. Money is the genie, and the genie will not go back into the bottle easily. All City are doing is playing the financial game better than anyone else. Absolutely zero chance of going bankrupt.

People have forgotten the SuperLeague had a bunch of financial rules built in to fuck us and PSG over and benefit Real, United and Barca.