PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

halfcenturyup said:
I am not sure the PL itself has it in for us that much, tbh. I think they made a knee-jerk reaction to pressure from the usual suspects when the DS emails came out. All this is just a consequence. And the hundred and whatever breaches are down to the club playing hard to get with evidence, more than anything else. Seems the club wants this to play out this way, the PL had no choice about how to proceed imo once they had started the investigation.

Would have been much smarter to wait until after CAS then just look at things CAS didn't cover imho.
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the PL are run or told how to run by Gill n Parry
every rule change every decision favours certain clubs

clear n obvious
 
Fiftyyearsandcounting said:
I've been a City supporter since the mid-50's. Seen all the ups and downs, good seasons and bad, wins and failures. Wouldn't bother me too much even if we ended up in National League. Every away ground full, win almost every game, lower division team maybe winning FA cup and/or EFL cup, storming up the divisions.
Watching City win, against any team, is what I want.
Mind you, not sure if the likes of Erling, KdB, Jack and Pep will stay.
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Not a single player would stay apart from a few younger and older fringe players !!

Anyway its not gonna happen so no point even talking about it
 
levets said:
Amongst all the PL rules, there must be one that implies, particularly in spirit; that ‘all clubs be treated equally’? The 4 year investigation into just our club, shows this doesn’t happen. Has any other PL club ever been under such investigations?
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I think it’s time we released on headed paper a letter asking the premier league to investigate the other 19 clubs yearly financial statements.

Start with the rags and the dodgy offshore accounts then head to dipperland and ask why they made up a stadium rebuild to dodge ffp. Moving on down south to London and the hidden Russia ruble. Soft loan this and soft loan that. Maybe check in with the Rwanda relief club!

As for the rest…fuck em.
 
wolviedinho said:
I think it’s time we released on headed paper a letter asking the premier league to investigate the other 19 clubs yearly financial statements.

Start with the rags and the dodgy offshore accounts then head to dipperland and ask why they made up a stadium rebuild to dodge ffp. Moving on down south to London and the hidden Russia ruble. Soft loan this and soft loan that. Maybe check in with the Rwanda relief club!

As for the rest…fuck em.
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Amen to all of this mate!
 
richards30 said:
We will get hit with non cooperation charges anyway?
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Those are the only charges we are likely, on the basis of what is in the public domain so far, we are likely to go down on.

The PL investigation was commenced the day after Der Spiegel published the hacked emails. At an early stage in the investigation we were asked to disclose a series of documents. The Premier League was entitled to ask us for this under the rules, but we refused. The League then began a disciplinary procedure against us for failing to comply with the disclosure request. That disciplinary complaint was eventually allowed, and we appealed first to the High Court, then to the Court of Appeal. Those appeals were ultimately unsuccessful.

The net effect of all that was that we had to provide the material that the PL asked us for, which we initially, and wrongly, refused to provide.

I think we are bang to rights on the complaint of non-co-operation insofar as it relates to that.

The question is, since (a) we ended up paying the costs of the unsuccessful appeals, and (b) if the charges are otherwise unsuccesful, how serious should the sanction be for that non-co-operation?

My guess would be a similar sized fine to the one upheld by CAS.

My reading of Tolmie's earlier posts is that there appears to be an acknowledgement on the PL's part that they won't make anything else stick, and an acknowledgement on our part that the non-co-operation charge is the one we don't have a defence to.
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
This could be thrown out but the damage is done, the media and their lackeys have done the hatchet job on City and in the eyes of every football fan posting their vitriol on social media pages such as Sports Bible or listening to Talk Sport, they have us bang to rights in their opinion rather than what a court or panel thinks .
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Correct so actually giving a fuck what they think or say makes it harder to bear
 
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