PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Keeper!]

I am wondering if we did know something was coming? The incredibly low net spend over the last 5 years, and in particular the last year? Not saying the club agrees with the charges, just that we knew a load of charges were coming our way?

100% I thought the last summer window was so strange, starts to make sense now.

Sorry but I don't feel very confident on this and I would expect the club to make the statement they did, but if it's so clear cut, why has it dragged on for so long, it's in no one's interest to do so.

 

[Tb1981]

They didn't even do Soriano the courtesy of giving him the charges before giving them to the media and specifically to certain journalists. City have won 4 of the last 5 PL titles and that's how the league chose to handle it. That means we have absolutely no relationship of any real respect with the people running the league, and that's squarely at Soriano's door as he is the guy who sits in all those meetings.

That’s because he is successful and they hate it
We all complain when we don’t take people to task (tebas, Jordan, Delaney etc) over their comments
yet when we try the nicely nicely approach that don’t work either
Fuck them all.

 

[PistonBlue]

If / when we are cleared, the damage is already done. The narrative will be that there's no smoke without fire and we paid them off

It is anyway, even after CAS

 

[bluwes]

What a lovely morning.

But one of my -- let's call him -- "high finance" friends here texted me this this morning:

"CFG are the best run organization in global professional football. Do you think Silvergate invests $500M without a very thorough going-over of all potential risks as well as a complete vetting of the books and finances?"

What does he think about Silverlake though?

 

[halfcenturyup]

I don't think it is weird that the CEO of a big company should carry the can for something like this, but fair enough. I appreciate my view won't be popular!

Fairy nuff.

 

[Brett Sinclair]

Mate he's a fucking QC. He doesn't let his football team affect his judgement lmao

Think you mean KC.. I heard something about the Queen dying a few month's back

 

[LongsightM13]

I suspect it's more related to the fact that China has massively cut back on all things football for their own independent financial reasons.

China has been slowly withdrawing from football for a few years now

 

[Gingers Dad]

Shit or bust that's why we are fighting, if it's proved we have lied and cheated the owner is well and truly fucked.

Don't see how we could have hidden false accounting for over a decade while trading internationally. I'm calling bollocks. Last throw off the dice by the PL. Like club statement said - "once and for all".

 

[Damanino]

I just hope we spent last 4-5 years through cyber hackers of collection dirt on rival clubs. that we will show what is in our hands right now about the PL cartel clubs ready to rock to boat if the punish us. they can chose to ban or punish or but then the whole PL ship will go like Titanic.

timing also couldnt be worse for city, huge pressure in title race, CL is about to restart. its all on purpose.

 

[citymad]

It’s difficult not to feel pessimistic. It’s hard to imagine we can possibly defend 100 charges. We could be the next Rangers. The football world would love that to happen.