PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Gordyola]

And of course Brexit has been such a roaring success. Well for those like ReesMogg who hid his money in Dublin, or Redwood who said don’t buy British, or that twat trying to buy the rags or Dyson moving his HQ to Singapore etc

Didn't argue about the success or not of the UK leaving the EU just, pointing out that your argument about influencing opinion is not entirely valid

 

[Kippax77]

5 Live this morning.......if City do the treble, would United's be considered "Pure"

Just fuck off.

Pure luck, yes

 

[supercity88]

Those claiming thw club are doing nothing about this to challenge public perception against the media portrayal of things, may be missing or forgetting Pep's role in all this. He creates bigger waves than the ripples of a media briefing or an online club statement.

They're also missing the fact that no one cares. City fans believe one thing, everyone else another. No matter what we do and say we will not change that. We're guilty. We won at CAS, except we didn't. Time-barred, fined and a "technicality" were the real outcomes.

It will be the same this time around.

Pep will say what needs to be said. Jonathan Liew will ignore it and write some nonsense philosophical driven rant, Simon Jordan will say he's read all the evidence and then make some rash judgment on how he thinks we were guilty but we're not any more and, most importantly City will keep on winning.

Chelsea were berated for a while, but we came along and stole their headlines. No one really cares about what they've spent now because they're shite. Newcastle are playing by the book at the moment, but things will change there and then we'll pick up our popcorn and quietly walk backwards out of the room.

 

[Blu3m00n91]

Never seen ‘115’ so much in my life. It’s only going to intensify over the coming weeks. Gonna be a barrage of so much shit being written about us. Keep winning on the pitch and fucking annoy them more.

 

[SilverFox2]

I saw the after the game presentation and the various interviews
What to me was interesting was the obvious importance the players put in praising the fans. All showed a preference to be with their mates and thank the crowd rather than be interviewed by Sky.
Pep made them wait until the end before he was interviewed and curtly put the microphone down on the table when finished.
Our Captain answered football questions expertly certainly surprising them with his intelligent ( I'm just a team player) version despite being not his main language.

I am assuming the presentation by the PL rep carries on because the PL legal team have to legally prove their accusations so it happened.

Is it possible that City owners prefer to keep football matters and legal ones separate?

Seems that the PL do as well.

 

[Mancity1980]

Has anyone seen this link? Apart from the fact the BBC have published it when we have won the league, which is poor from the public broadcaster, I thought it was fair and it stuck to the facts. None of this guilty or failing to recognise we were exonerated:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/fo...6b18264af97d5b4c593a86&pinned_post_type=share

 

[HelloCity]

Has anyone seen this link? Apart from the fact the BBC have published it when we have won the league, which is poor from the public broadcaster, I thought it was fair and it stuck to the facts. None of this guilty or failing to recognise we were exonerated:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/65668465?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=646b18264af97d5b4c593a86&Ros Atkins on… Manchester City's finances&2023-05-22T09:42:47.690Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:499602ad-1fd7-41e2-af9a-8da5bedfc36a&pinned_post_asset_id=646b18264af97d5b4c593a86&pinned_post_type=share

It really doesn’t.

It’s pure propaganda.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Same as what I think. anything said by our owners will fall of deaf ears and turned into something more inflammatory probably. I think they've learnt just say nothing and let facts speak. Not sure its the best way and I do wish they would come out and show some opposition to this bullshit, but I think we've all experienced it, you say anything in our defence you will get laughed at. Pointless.

The Queen used the mantra, 'never complain, never explain'.

Prince Andrew should have listened to her late Majesty.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Is one of the charges that we've been paying more in transfer fees than we've actually reported?
Was in an argument over the weekend when pointing out that we're 10th in the net spend table for the last years.

I argued that this wasn't one of the charges.
If for example we report the transfer fee for Nathan Ake of £40m, we pay Bournemouth that and they reflect that on their accounts.
If we actually pay them £60m but they report it as £40m, then they are guilty too for false accounting surely?

I'm no lawyer or forensic accountant sadly, unlike the majority of football fans on Twitter these days.

Is the "friend" you were arguing with talking about the Juventus/Danilo/Cancelo thing? If so, I haven't seen anything to indicate that that is an issue for the club.

The problem for Juventus I think was that they were keeping two sets of books: one for business and one for tax, and the numbers were different in both. Used to be pretty standard procedure when I was dealing with Italians, but illegal when you get caught, of course. Stand to be corrected. But AFAIK, this has nothing to do with City or the alleged PL breaches. That said, no-one knows what the actual charges are, just the various regulation breaches. Certainly, your "friend" doesn't.

The problem for your friend is that he shouldn't believe everything he reads on Twitter, or hears down the pub, no matter how much he wants it to be true.

 

[Mancity1980]

It really doesn’t.

It’s pure propaganda.

I get what you mean but I didn’t notice any wrong facts?