PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Jesus H Gabz]

@Ric might be worth having a no reply sticky thread about the CAS judgement broken down by one or more of our resident lawyers, if anyone is prepared to do it?

I’d certainly find it really interesting & useful

Don’t make it easy for the peeping press, they need to read 15,000 posts like the rest of us :)

 

[Dribble]

His past would tell you he’s no Robin Hood he’s a dirty extorting scoundrel who the media have miscast for their own purposes.

And there lies my bafflement.

It's like a burglar robs your house & finds bank statements & a book on tax avoidance. He gets caught & the victim is questioned & accused of looking into tax loopholes (albeit there's zero evidence the victim went through with it), but everyone forgets about the thief & that there's an actual victim of his crime. #UnFuckinBeLIEvable

 

[Chi-town blues]

I'm really struggling with the idea that expert opinion evidence would be enough for the PL to succeed on those charges. EG, you put all the papers in the case in front of Deloittes (say) and they say "look at this , this and this, BDO got conned." But BDO say "no we didn't" and E & Y say "we agree with BDO". How can you possibly say the accounts aren't true and fair when two leading firms of accountants say in their opinion that they are? You would be saying that City and Etihad weren't entitled to rely on their own auditors, which is plainly nonsense.

It seems to me these charges needs direct evidence of collusion. I can't see how the PL make a charge of deliberate falsification of the accounts stick unless they have evidence from someone on the inside saying "I know the accounts say X but what actually happened was Y."

That isn't going to happen on the basis of the Der Spiegel emails, so unless the PL have something we don't know about, I'm baffled about why they have made such absolutely devastating accusations with the square root of fuck all to justify them.

Balance of probability = square root of fuck all to the power of infinity .

 

[HelloCity]

Don’t know if anyone has said but I used to have a shred of respect for True Geordie, biggest game of the season Arsenal vs City and he has no city fan on. Show has gone down hill for various reasons… brings on Craig from Anfield “AGENDA”. No city fan to talk about charges while, they talk with absolutely no idea what they’re on about, this well I’m not gonna say what Craig is I think we all know, abysmal.

Stop linking this shite.

 

[M12Blue]

Don’t really understand how anyone could be in the ref’s ear apart from the match officials and Stockley Park. And could this voice have been dubbed on afterwards to make the recording “interesting”?

Was there not at some point previously a non match official in the var box, someone associated with PL who shouldn’t have been there. I may be wrong but it does suggest 3rd party involvement in var is possible.

 

[Dribble]

This - as far as I know - has never been answered.
Let's face it, if he wanted to hack a club for the exposure or for blackmail/monetary gain, why City? Surely the G14 clubs would have been a better target?
He's obviously been hired by somebody to target us specifically - I don't believe it was random... we need to find out who!

Why isn't more being made of this? Surely we must be able to get to him & offer a financial incentive for proof he was hired by a hostile party to hack City?

He either hacked us with the intent of selling on the data, blackmailing us, or he was hired to hack us. Either way, I'd want answers... \0/

 

[dublinblue12]

Don’t know if anyone has said but I used to have a shred of respect for True Geordie, biggest game of the season Arsenal vs City and he has no city fan on. Show has gone down hill for various reasons… brings on Craig from Anfield “AGENDA”. No city fan to talk about charges while, they talk with absolutely no idea what they’re on about, this well I’m not gonna say what Craig is I think we all know, abysmal.

If anyone like me is thinking of watching in the hope that Craig ends up crying by the end of it he doesn't unfortunately, though he looks like he is coming close at times. The outrage is beautiful but I agree with previous poster, stop sharing and giving them a pay day

 

[journolud]

cockfosters station after last nights game there was a bunch of city fans singing and joyful one song we'll cheat when we want to lots of laughter some arsenal fans started shouting comments to which another arsenal fan shut them up and said city just doing what every club even we have done and good luck to them,he was met with little muttering but most agreed with him

Wouldn’t put it past the PL to use our chanting of this as an admission of guilt. Could be the strongest evidence they have

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Don’t know if anyone has said but I used to have a shred of respect for True Geordie, biggest game of the season Arsenal vs City and he has no city fan on. Show has gone down hill for various reasons… brings on Craig from Anfield “AGENDA”. No city fan to talk about charges while, they talk with absolutely no idea what they’re on about, this well I’m not gonna say what Craig is I think we all know, abysmal.

Look how giddy the plastic dipper is. It’s actually a balanced video, although not once did any of them suggest we may be innocent.

 

[argyle]

Don’t really understand how anyone could be in the ref’s ear apart from the match officials and Stockley Park. And could this voice have been dubbed on afterwards to make the recording “interesting”?

The likelihood is it didn't happen and isn't true.