PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[manimanc]

They'll always think that because this whole thing is based on one very simple concept:

"There's no way the dirty Arabs are performing better than our historic clubs. The only possible explanation is they must be cheating."

In a nutshell mate.

If we didn't win leagues and cups or be anywhere near the top 4 none of this would be happening.

Not one bit.

 

[Gazza]

I‘m sure he does. But, taking City down doesn’t further his cause any. Taking the PL down a peg, helps Spain hugely. I was reading some quotes by the agent of the Viking yesterday and one thing she said was that players ask for Madrid in Spain but when it comes to England, they ask for the Premier League. Many aren’t too bothered where, they just want to be here and play in it and that is what really worries Tebas.

They'd have had a league as competitive as ours if the two greedy clubs hadn't carved up all the TV money between themselves.

 

[Goatmeal]

We don't consider them relevant in terms of what we can dismiss out of hand, based on the evidence we have.

Is any of this likely to come out in the press or will that only happen after both parties have met?
If this was made public by a club statement I think that would be a good thing.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Cyril Smith look alike.

And actalike I shouldn’t wonder

 

[LeonardoDaVnci]

MCFC are a business with a turnover of hundreds of millions of pounds. So why would the Crown Prosecution Service not be involved when the PL accuses the executives of MCFC of False accounting repeatedly for over a decade. Maybe they have been in discussions with the PL and based on the evidence presented decided not pursue the case.

 

[BringBackSwales]

City want it all done and dusted in a matter of months.

95 per cent of the charges are already considered off the table

How sure are you about this pal?

 

[kaz7]

Is any of this likely to come out in the press or will that only happen after both parties have met?
If this was made public by a club statement I think that would be a good thing.

The club wont make any statements , legal action insists on that

 

[Metalartin]

Off topic but the new "outrage" around Newcastle's ownership sounds very familiar:

Newcastle’s chairman, Yasir al-Rumayyan, was described in a US court document as “a sitting minister of the Saudi government”. It has led to Amnesty International calling for the league to re-examine the assurances given by Newcastle’s owners that the Saudi state would not have control of the club.

Everyone accepted that the PIF was Saudi state money and that there is no legal reason why you can block it on that basis alone. How much does someone who works in the Saudi government being Chairman really change? Did they expect no Saudi's in the boardrooms or else that constitutes state control or something? It just seems so lazy, just how they try and use Sheikh Mansour's and Kahldoon's roles in Abu Dhabi/the UAE to justify their "state owned" comments.

Amanda Staveley, still seems to be the public face of it anyway, if it's an optics concern.

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

How sure are you about this pal?

OP is as far as I can tell the most well-connected poster on here. Which is to say they don't always get it right 100%, but anything they do say is 99% what the noises coming out of the club are. So take what they say with a pinch of salt, but they're not a bullshitter or blagger either.

 

[eastmanc]

And actalike I shouldn’t wonder

Steady on that's slanderous.