PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[ayrshire_blue]

No one has answered me about this point so here goes:
Can someone tell me why the charges go back to 2009 when PL FFP came into force in 2014?
Is it trying to blacken our character so other lesser charges can be seen in a worse light?

Afaik (and I'm most definitely a KFA), our charges aren't really FFP related at all but more in respect of false accounting.

 

[Gundoggin]

I think one of the charges relates to wetting the grass too much when we played the Scousers.

Apparently Melissa Reddy is going to give evidence on behalf of the PL.

Melissa Reddy wet herself on our pitch ?

 

[schfc6]

No one has answered me about this point so here goes:
Can someone tell me why the charges go back to 2009 when PL FFP came into force in 2014?
Is it trying to blacken our character so other lesser charges can be seen in a worse light?

Wondered the same myself.

 

[bitterblue78]

Haha

 

[Stoned Rose]

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Imagine being bummed that royally in public.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Anyone any idea as to.why the date for the hearing has to be a secret?

They’re waiting for the fixture list so they can kick it off just as we’re about to face Liverpool away, Arsenal away and Real Madrid away in the CL.

 

[SilverFox2]

It'll all calm down in a few days.

Then it'll flare up again when/if Forest and Everton get punished.
Rinse and repeat.

I'm bored of reading,and hearing the same nonsense from opposition fans and a bunch of dicks in the media pandering to them.
Plenty of the media are making some nice money out of generating hysteria amongst largely(willfully) ignorant football fans,so it'll run and run.

The fact that City's hearing has been sort of kicked into the long grass has been as much of a curse as a blessing.

Reading all this media hate against City makes me more than ever realise that the Panel must be independent and use their professional Judgement.
The media bias will always exist so get used to it.
No amount of education will stop this so stick to our hope / belief that a Panel will select fact over scapegoat.

 

[g180aj]

The quality of questioning was appalling - gongs all round!!!

There was a bloke on the end of the table who looked like he was scrolling through social media.

 

[ste.sully]

Anyone any idea as to.why the date for the hearing has to be a secret?

I don't know but if a "date" has been set then it will be in the not too distant future - potentially this summer? There was talk about late 2025 but doubt it.

 

[CC1]

I don't know but if a "date" has been set then it will be in the not too distant future - potentially this summer? There was talk about late 2025 but doubt it.

Why?

 

[Silva2021]

It’ll only be over if and when we stop winning and drop into mid table obscurity so we’re no longer a threat to the cartel

If we are cleared there’s absolutely no chance that the decision will be accepted by anybody outside the club and our fans

Disagree, although there will be kick back and comments they will have to accept it especially if an independent regulator is in force.

The reality this end of prem or FFP (or whatever they wish to call it next week) it is doing it’s job. Newcastle this week admitted they had hit a glass ceiling, there does not seem to be an influx of Investors wishing to invest.

2 years after the announcement it will be hardly mentioned.

Strap in though, there will be some middle ground they will do us on.

An accounting error on some part that will be done in good faith, so not fraud.

That would have caused us to fail UEFA FFP but not PL.

Somehow we’ll get fined for it and maybe a transfer ban for a season and people will make out we cheated.

 

[eyalluvitt]

 

[oakiecokie]

They're wetting their knickers about it mate, on their tiny minds 24/7 these allegations. It's going to be amazing when we're exonerated again. There will be several suicides in Liverpool and the home counties/London. Lol

Fucking hell Fordy thats the the most positive thing I`ve seen you post ... ever. ;)

 

[oakiecokie]

Darlington’s move nearly finished them as a club.

Derby and Reading aren’t doing particularly well.

Stuart Pearce says "Hi".

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

Anyone any idea as to.why the date for the hearing has to be a secret?

Because there isnt one ?

 

[Barcon]

Even after Sadio Mane has ragged it

He wouldn't have even touched the sides.

 

[Gordyola]

It's not the KC who decided our fate it's the independent panel if we can call them independent. and it's human nature to have a small thinking of which way you are going to vote even before evidence and a lot of that will be based on what comes out through the media

The commission ( independent panel) will comprise KCs and financial experts who will decide our fate

PL Rule book

In 2019, the League moved to an entirely independent Judicial Panel, appointed by an independent Chair (Murray Rosen KC). It is from this Judicial Panel that the Chair selects individuals with relevant experience and expertise to sit on commissions. Where a commission is appointed, it has extremely wide sanctioning powers, including the power to impose significant fines and sporting sanctions.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

I watched the Khaldoon end of season interview before, specifically the part where he talks about the charges. This isn't a man who's worried in the slightest by any of it. As the man himself says, stick to the facts blues. Everything else is smoke and mirrors, it's clear and it's organised.

 

[117 M34]

Pep will surely be asked about the charges related to the hearing date in his next presser.
He should say we have not been told a date even if we have. Make the PL sound like they don't know what they are doing.

 

[ysmsa]

Anyone any idea as to.why the date for the hearing has to be a secret?

So they can change it last minute, then charge us for failing to attend!