PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[mac]

I listen to it live and although Stephan was very good I do believe he needed to choose his words better, especially knowing how that station would twist everything.

When explaining the sheer scale of what would be a major fraud case, he said the PL would struggle to prove it. I believe he should have stressed more that its unbelievable that such a giant fraud could be possible without a whistle-blower or easy evidence being found after 6 years of looking.

For me it gave Jordan the ongoing chance to say, we are guilty but the PL just weren't clever enough to prove it.

Just my take.

Nice but next time you go on and fight the cause.

 

[ysmsa]

We are becoming the most hated football club in the history of the game , it s a non stop barrage of bile and vitriol , we know success breeds contempt but this is way beyond that , the red'istree clubs and the Premier league have done a brilliant job in stirring up the media.
When you consider the Dippers murdered 39 fans and got every club banned from europe , as far as i can remember they didnt get the hate we are experiencing , but f*ck them all the pundits , media and dickheads on social media they will not take one tiny piece of enjoyment and pride i have been able witness over the last decade , we are the best in the world , so just f*ck every last one of them.

Forced all seater stadia on English fans too.

Many of us were happy to have the choice of standing or sitting down!

 

[CC1]

I liked this post

I know I am just frustrated with it all and at times get pissed off

I love this club and invest a lot, just like we all do

This hurts at times

Agreed mate. It cuts to the core reading & hearing the crap that gets thrown at us. It’s so unfair & could take the gloss off our amazing achievements. I sometimes forget how many times we’ve won the league in the past 10 years because it’s pretty unbelievable - not to mention the 5 top trophies in one year. The trip to Istanbul was just superb but the constant jibes in the media make us forget these wonderful times.
I just want it all to be over & desperately hope we win this case
Whatever happens, our achievements have been unprecedented & that’s down to our players; Peo & our owners AND OUR FANS

 

[bleuger]

To be fair, I have always enjoyed "City's going down with a billion in the bank...."

Maybe change it now to “City going down as Champions of the World”

 

[mac]

I love my club to the core. I'm fucking sick of all this shit but we have had it for decades. Its nowt new. Its only now we are top dog we can we truly see it.
In the 70s 80s 90s etc being the underdog in a Derby, getting beat, getting refs even back then screw us over. Going into work then 90 percent of the the small dick wankers trying to take the piss. Hard to take but we all turned to the fuckers and said ," yes we got beat but I was there ,unlike you glory hunting cunts"
Nothing will change, is what I hear all rhe time. I'm sorry City are changing it all now. No fucking kid wants to be a rag or a dipper. Unless he is actually forced into it. They are history, we are the future. Let that sink in

 

[bluwes]

I listen to it live and although Stephan was very good I do believe he needed to choose his words better, especially knowing how that station would twist everything.

When explaining the sheer scale of what would be a major fraud case, he said the PL would struggle to prove it. I believe he should have stressed more that its unbelievable that such a giant fraud could be possible without a whistle-blower or easy evidence being found after 6 years of looking.

For me it gave Jordan the ongoing chance to say, we are guilty but the PL just weren't clever enough to prove it.

Just my take.

cant wait to hear you on there

 

[bluemanchester]

Ffs it’s @projectriver and his name is Stefan.

Some cunts are calling him Stephen, Simon, Susan ffs.

Shirley not;-)

 

[Bluearmy]

I believe this front loading of sponsorship contracts is usual practice, and that back in the early years of the century Arsenal got the lion's share of their deal with Emirates was paid at the start to cover the costs of building their stadium.

Correct

 

[city2]

Will al this media and players , managers on a daily attack of our club really have any input into how this kangaroo court reaches its verdict and if so this whole thing is just sham.

 

[Barcon]

I almost gave up on it after around 6 mins as that bloke that looks like joey Barton was causing me to want to bite my laptop in half.
What an arrogant **** he is.
Glad I didn't. Well done Stephan. You showed him up for what he is. An intellectual midget.

 

[JTFactsPlz]

I just read a few of the comments on YouTube & the thick fuckers still don’t get it…… after a video by Steffan going to the trouble of explaining it instead I the comments are closer to bullshit spread by Spitty & Ratty. We are guilty, only got away due to time barring, same as Everton & Forest case…….

If you want to make a shit load of money, invest in candles now they are going to go through the roof……

Those commenters won't have bothered to watch the video (or pay attention if it actually played). They don't give a shit about the facts. Most of the idiots constantly posting "115" all over social media don't have the faintest clue about the actual substance of the "charges", I guarantee it. They think it's all "something, something, FFP".

All they're interested in is trolling City and City fans. Football is tribal at the best of times and this shit show is bringing out the absolute worst in fans of all clubs that aren't City.

 

[blueandy1mac]

Correct

Think I'm right in saying that none of our sponsorships, certainly not in the period of the charges, was even an English record. So just how inflated are those sponsorships when other clubs are getting more for the same thing.
Anything is only worth what someone is prepared to pay for it, and that figure is always subjective. Many things determine a value, not least as in this case attaching yourself to the tail of a behemoth and getting value for that association further down the line.
How anyone can put a price on that I don't know.

 

[ysmsa]

I love my club to the core. I'm fucking sick of all this shit but we have had it for decades. Its nowt new. Its only now we are top dog we can we truly see it.
In the 70s 80s 90s etc being the underdog in a Derby, getting beat, getting refs even back then screw us over. Going into work then 90 percent of the the small dick wankers trying to take the piss. Hard to take but we all turned to the fuckers and said ," yes we got beat but I was there ,unlike you glory hunting cunts"
Nothing will change, is what I hear all rhe time. I'm sorry City are changing it all now. No fucking kid wants to be a rag or a dipper. Unless he is actually forced into it. They are history, we are the future. Let that sink in

Steady on, the Rags were fuck all as a team in the 70's and 80's despite the media and no nowt fans believing they have been one of the best 2 teams, forever.

The other being the Dippers!

 

[lasereyes]

One thing Stefan achieved is he has been quoted as a finance expert, not a City fan. This is important as if the headline was City fan then majority of people would have ignored and moved on. Instead the click-bait headline might make a few folks watch and hear Stefan's very coherent arguments. That was very clever on his part IMO and may make some who assume this is an open/shut case think again.

 

[Asa's left peg]

I can hear a bubbling sound and smell piss! Should I call the nurse or is it something else?

 

[cheekybids]

The financial implications are huge for the PL if they lose. The legal costs alone will run into upper tens of millions. They are simultaneously fighting legal battles with City, Everton, Forest and soon Chelsea. From a logisitical point of view this is a nightmare for officials at the PL. There are many millions of documents involved in the City case alone. They have less than 200 employees on their staff.
This is a huge reputational risk for all senior people at the PL, all their Board Directors, all their partners and sponsors. Masters has no significant experience of working at this level in this sort of geopolitical environment. This is the biggest shit-show English football has ever seen...and it's all self-inflicted.

Self inflicted or targeted by the usual suspects.

 

[eyalluvitt]

Simon Notwithstanding Jordan is a complete dick.

Can never own another club after bankrupting his beloved Palace, not a fit and proper person

 

[eyalluvitt]

If City are exonerated and then a banged to rights guilty Chelsea get put in the National league along with Everton & Forest

 

[Bill Walker]

I almost gave up on it after around 6 mins as that bloke that looks like joey Barton was causing me to want to bite my laptop in half.
What an arrogant **** he is.
Glad I didn't. Well done Stephan. You showed him up for what he is. An intellectual midget.

Jordan was like a little annoying ventriloquists puppet constantly popping up with meaningless interjections like trying to prove himself knowledgeable and relevant.
I never listen to this show because of him. Probably the most annoying man in the world.
Even worse than the drop-ins on the match day thread.

 

[cheekybids]

Considering how he is with other guests and how argumentative for the sake of it he tries to be, I don’t think Jordan was as much of a bellend as he normally is in that and even if it might not have come across listening to it, you can see on the vid he was respecting and agreeing with most of the points being put back to him.

I don’t mean any of that as a compliment to him as such, aside from that he clearly knew he had come up against a more than worthy adversary that he couldn’t counter. @projectriver, superb interview.

Be intrigued to know if you speak to them after the interview and what they say once the microphones are off!

I think he thought he’d done the job by getting a sound bite & thought he’d got @projectriver where he wanted him. It was a complete mis-match as Steffan proved he was objective & knowledgeable Lawyer & as he explained there’s no chance of the premier league winning Simon sat there open mouthed mumbling Enron.

It would have been interesting if Simon was asked why he thought it was similar to Enron & which auditor is he accusing of colluding?