PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Holcombe bloo]

Yeah but he could also have also stayed where he was in Spain, London office or the chairman’s suite.
The fact he was so visible and was even pressing the flesh and working the room with the comparative scruffs in the Legends Lounge was absolutely unprecedented.
He was also extremely unguarded in his comments and called the premier league ‘these bastards’

I like that he’s harnessing his inner delia. Did he stink of sherry?

 

[LongsightM13]

I like that he’s harnessing his inner delia. Did he stink of sherry?

No he was bullish in supporting our club and the good name of MCFC against our many enemies.
Weird how some people in this madhouse find that strange

 

[Bald fraud]

Yeah but he could also have also stayed where he was in Spain, London office or the chairman’s suite.
The fact he was so visible and was even pressing the flesh and working the room with the comparative scruffs in the Legends Lounge was absolutely unprecedented.
He was also extremely unguarded in his comments and called the premier league ‘these bastards’

Well he’s right on that one. The silence is deafening on this now. let’s hope it’s a good sign!

 

[Nicholas van Whatsisface]

Interesting to see the Daily Fail’s attempts to get the allegations they’re facing in the current phone hacking case thrown out on procedural grounds at the High Court earlier today - thereby avoiding having to answer to the substance of the accusations.

Relying on procedural arguments apparently no longer being an approach which - in their view, when referenced by CAS in City’s case - clearly constitutes nefarious practice, and which they loudly trumpeted as apparently clear evidence of our guilt in the charges we faced at UEFA/CAS.

It was also particularly amusing to observe that one of the two key arguments they’re using in having the case dismissed is that any evidence should be considered to be ‘time barred’ as it took place 10 years ago, and should therefore be inadmissible.

Sound familiar?

Hypocritical cunts are happy to use the fact we didn’t have to face the charge around our Etisalat sponsorship (due to it being time barred) as confirmation we ‘got off on a technicality’ and therefore must be guilty of disguising owner funding in that case.

Which of course clearly leads to the conclusion that, by extension, we must also be guilty of the whole fucking lot.

Yet when it’s them doing it - it’s all tickety-boo and there's nothing at all to be read into it!

Mind you, they’ve actually had the temerity to call upon the EU-derived Human Rights Act as a defence against naming the journalists in question - which, given their historic positions on both the EU and the Act itself, is quite staggeringly audacious in its hypocrisy.

So a touch more mendacity into the mix should be considered par for the course for our pals at the Fail!

 

[Holcombe bloo]

No he was bullish in supporting our club and the good name of MCFC against our many enemies.
Weird how some people in this madhouse find that strange

Im glad he was pal, I just like to see the funny side, maybe it’s my coping mechanism through all this bullshit!

 

[LongsightM13]

Interesting to see the Daily Fail’s attempts to get the allegations they’re facing in the current phone hacking case thrown out on procedural grounds at the High Court earlier today - thereby avoiding having to answer to the substance of the accusations.

Relying on procedural arguments apparently no longer being an approach which - in their view, when referenced by CAS in City’s case - clearly constitutes nefarious practice, and which they loudly trumpeted as apparently clear evidence of our guilt in the charges we faced at UEFA/CAS.

It was also particularly amusing to observe that one of the two key arguments they’re using in having the case dismissed is that any evidence should be considered to be ‘time barred’ as it took place 10 years ago, and should therefore be inadmissible.

Sound familiar?

Hypocritical cunts are happy to use the fact we didn’t have to face the charge around our Etisalat sponsorship (due to it being time barred) as confirmation we ‘got off on a technicality’ and therefore must be guilty of disguising owner funding in that case.

Which of course clearly leads to the conclusion that, by extension, we must also be guilty of the whole fucking lot.

Yet when it’s them doing it - it’s all tickety-boo and there's nothing at all to be read into it!

Mind you, they’ve actually had the temerity to call upon the EU-derived Human Rights Act as a defence against naming the journalists in question - which, given their historic positions on both the EU and the Act itself, is quite staggeringly audacious in its hypocrisy.

So a touch more mendacity into the mix should be considered par for the course for our pals at the Fail!

Fantastic post, well played sir

 

[LongsightM13]

Im glad he was pal, I just like to see the funny side, maybe it’s my coping mechanism through all this bullshit!

No apology needed pal
He was proper on one mate, seemed to take it all very personally as an insult to both his professionalism and his personal integrity
Certainly increased my confidence!

 

[M18CTID]

Well he’s right on that one. The silence is deafening on this now. let’s hope it’s a good sign!

While I'm hugely encouraged by City's and Soriano's bullishness, I'm not reading too much into the current silence. It was always going to be a big news story in those first few days but eventually other stories start to grab the headlines with this one naturally fading away until there is something new to report. Of course, it could also be that City have "had a word" with regards to some of the more inflammatory and accusatory pieces which might be adding to the lack of reporting for now.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

While I'm hugely encouraged by City's and Soriano's bullishness, I'm not reading too much into the current silence. It was always going to be a big news story in those first few days but eventually other stories start to grab the headlines with this one naturally fading away until there is something new to report. Of course, it could also be that City have "had a word" with regards to some of the more inflammatory and accusatory pieces which might be adding to the lack of reporting for now.

Alvarez signing an extension and the North stand development is providing the clues on what is happening. Although we put down the money to bring Alvarez here he is at the beginning of his career and could go where he likes. If City were having their wings clipped with fines, Point deductions, transfer bans it would have an affect on him and his career with team recruitment going forward. He has however put pen to paper.

You also don’t start making plans for extending the North stand and putting a hotel behind it if City’s hierarchy think we have a case to answer to from the Premier league. If the mood music is correct coming from the club it will be interesting seeing how the Premier league tries to secretly make the investigation vanish. A lot of this has played out behind closed doors, we won’t see a blow by blow account of what’s going on and Soriano lighting up a cigar outside the high court once vindicated. We could be in the end game of it all now.

If this plays out that way in fully exonerated, what happens to the media and all those clubs and their supporters who tried to brand City as cheats? Potentially two different panels in the CAS and whoever the Premier league has nominated will have found City not guilty. Where will these people go to hoping for the club’s demise?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Yes I’d like to know this too. If it was said at a supporters do there’s no need for anonymity

I wasn't there but my understanding is that it was Roel de Vries.