PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

CC1 said:
I haven’t seen anything that encourages me to believe that this will be dealt with fairly. I think it will be a huge miscarriage of justice that will be brushed under the carpet by the media because they WANT us to be found guilty. There are too many things against us: the cartel clubs; the hatred of our success; the makeup of the panel; the fact we’re affecting the profitability of the so-called big clubs & the agenda to address our UEFA successful result.
If it was a truly impartial panel, I’d feel confident but to spend 4 years investigating us - to the detriment of regulating truly failing clubs - there’s no way they intend to lose

Our only hope is if we can go to the high courts but I don’t think we can
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The guy in charge of the panel is a KC and leading sports lawyer.

He isn't going to jeopardise his career by overseeing a kangaroo court/ trial by media.
 
Bluewonder said:
The guy in charge of the panel is a KC and leading sports lawyer.

He isn't going to jeopardise his career by overseeing a kangaroo court/ trial by media.
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Hope so. Guess we’d do our best to ruin him IF he wasn’t impartial
 
This whole thing stinks and have no faith in us recieving a fair hearing. That said no matter what the outcome i will still be there cheering us on each week, in truth a small part of me would love to go back to the dark old days just so I could go to York away.
 
ayrshire_blue said:
Correct me if I'm wrong though isn't the main charge we're facing namely that we deliberately mislead the PL over finances for a 9 year period? As I understand it, none of what you're commenting on suggests that they have deliberately mislead anyone, given the image rights company was literally changed to Manchester City football club (image rights) ltd. It suggests it's being plainly open rather than deliberately misleading surely?

Apologies if I've picked you up wrong. I appreciate your part in this discussion with PB.
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If and a big if the company controlling was in the Man City group I would think that then would create even more questions concerning the sum paid for the image rights.

I haven’t got a view to be honest re the sponsorship as much as anything I don’t think the full details were ever covered by UEFA or even in the CAS ruling so without having sight of the full run of emails or indeed other documents that UEFA didn’t go after CAS stated they couldn’t form a view on certain areas and I too don’t know but you can be certain they the PL will have taken heed of CASs comments

The image rights issue is different for me because , and as I have pointed out before, players wages in England and how they are paid and by whom is under the FA/PLs remit . No part of a players remuneration can be paid by any other entity.

As for the managers payment the question will be simply this. On the balance is it feasible that a manager will be paid less for managing the lead club in the group than he receives for doing a small amount of work for a minor club. If they think that’s unlikely then the next question is why was it done
 
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