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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I thought you were serious for a second
 
WRicko said:
What happens if the outcome is as positive and quick as you suggest ? Will the owners not want more information in the public domaine so as to undo the damage to our reputation ? A quick result in our favor doesn’t do this certain people will claim cover up others will just be baffled

If the Premier League come out and say it’s all fine now does Khaldoon come out and explain things or is that it. I would really like him to come out and go for the Red clubs and the premier league for coming after us I accept that won’t happen but I would like him to explain things to people that don’t read your posts.

Maybe it doesn’t matter especially as far as other fans are concerned but I carnt help but think it must have had some affect on sponsors etc or why would people be out to get us
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If its ends up in a face saving exercise & City get what they want out of the negotiations, I would imagine there will be NDA involved.
 
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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Think City didn't want sensitive details being available to the cartel clubs especially after the pl swept lfc database hacking under the carpet.
 
Chris in London said:
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.
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Yeah i agree mate and it will still be spun we are guilty as we got fined.
 
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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It's called the Napolean theory

All Premier league clubs are equal but some are more equal than others
 
foggy1974 said:
Think City didn't want sensitive details being available to the cartel clubs especially after the pl swept lfc database hacking under the carpet.
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A question for the legals. This "independent" commission is part of the PL process is it not? So do the PL have access to all the evidence anyway?

Edit: When it's over I mean .....
 
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