PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[I'm Blue]

Liverpool failed FFP too. Where’s their investigation for not meeting UEFA requirements?

They’d have failed it twice if they hadn’t offset about £30m on an imaginary new stadium.
No investigation.
They also hacked our scouting database.
No investigation.
We were told that’s cos it’s time barred.
That happened in 2013, a year we’ve been charged for.
United have been investigated by HMRC (they might still be investigating)
Where’s the premier leagues investigation into united?
The whole thing fucking stinks.
We are treated differently on the pitch and we’re certainly treated differently off it.

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

Apparantly the red cartel clubs are furious that the inflated charges haven't been Kangaroos into court quickly enough.
Independent Paywall Article: https://archive.ph/TOrB8

So am I. What purpose was there (other than to damage the club) of announcing a charging decision with no clear timeline for resolution.

 

[vicblueman]

Is it time that management of the club got tough with Carragher & Neville with their constant digs at the club, FFP allegations, plus carragher keeps saying state run club .
These 2 are a pair of ignorant idiots ,they shouldn't be allowed on the premises of MCFC .
Ban them.

 

[dave_blue12]

I think thats the issue rival fans have. The Football played on the pitch seems to be downstream from who your owners are. People havent gotten bullish on Newcastle all of a sudden because they have a young Messi in their youth system.

That guy in the photo (not Charles), is the most influential football figure in English football for 30 years, even bigger than Ferguson. He has basically torn up the landscape of the English football landscape.

The counter argument is that the heritage clubs get overturned and it allows clubs like City and Newcastle who historically found it hard to get/stay at the upper end of the table. However in doing so you become the very thing you complain about, by becoming a modern super club with infinite wealth to maintain high standards.

I think a European salary cap needs should be introduced across all major leagues. The best players can earn their money from image rights rather than salary from clubs. Or move toward a Bundesliga model with majority fan ownership of clubs.

Always the response of the G14 clubs. Let’s change the rules so we can win again. I’ll bet you weren’t thinking about salary caps when you were winning

Pathetic

 

[M18CTID]

Apparantly the red cartel clubs are furious that the inflated charges haven't been Kangaroos into court quickly enough.
Independent Paywall Article: https://archive.ph/TOrB8

If true then it shows - not surprisingly - that the clubs who are allegedly complaining don't give a fuck about due process. All these cunts need to know is that the City and Everton cases will take as long as they take.

 

[beehive_bob]

'Heritage clubs'. I've heard it all now.

 

[hello]

What i think is PL doesn't have anything against us unless we disclose our documents or witnesses (which we won't because it was not part of the rule at the time). That's the reason this will take long and probably nothing will happen.
For example in case of Juventus they had clear evidence so the prosecution was fast.

That appears to be very much the case as to how & why the W rules were added instead of the generic both parties should act in good faith charge rule B. The PL want to apply those rules added post the hack publication to previous seasons and the club seemingly said fuck off you deal with each season on that seasons handbook. Its was just reported as an appeal against him being an Arsenal member because our media are scummier than sewer rats.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Apparantly the red cartel clubs are furious that the inflated charges haven't been Kangaroos into court quickly enough.
Independent Paywall Article: https://archive.ph/TOrB8

That did read as an attempt to pressure the PL into doing something.
It's pointless though, as the lawyers/investigation will not be hurried by media bleating.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

This team is capable of 90 points and above each season, if they enforced something like that City would still have champions league football. The way Arsenal collapsed we could potentially still be champions if a similar scenario happened in the future, now that would boil some piss around the country.

People who say City/PL is boring could not be further from the truth. There is a wider story here that is utterly compelling and will stand the test of time. The current war between us, the PL and the old cartel is for the future direction of the sport and also has geo-political ramifications such that it transcends the sport itself. When the dust settles, and the war has been won, there will be a huge appetite for the inside story and documentary series will be made about it in years to come.

This is a point which seems lost on our media. The English press is fixated on an anti-Arab narrative and no one will deviate from that narrative. But the real story about the covert battle between the US tycoons in charge of the cartel clubs and City's owner (and now Newcastle) is a much better story. The skullduggery that has gone on, ranging from fake news websites, hacking of databases, vicious smear campaigns and has even spread to New York City with the wrangle over CFG's plans to develop a new stadium and hundreds of homes (as has happened in Manchester) would make a great Netflix series. While all this is happening the UK Goverment is driving forward to strip the PL of all its regulatory powers and only one football club is supporting them..City.
But the UK media is too stupid, bigoted, and lazy to take this story on.

 

[KS55]

Associated? That's a can of worms they don't want to open... pretty much every team will be guilty of 'associated' sponsorships... United only got Chevrolet as a sponsor because of their American owners... Leicester and King Power... and god help Wrexham if they get to the PL - ALL their current sponsors are 'associated'!

Let's face it – at all levels of Football, clubs have 'associated' sponsors... If I had a company successful enough to be able to afford to sponsor a PL club, I'd pick City obviously... likewise, company's from Abu Dhabi will want to sponsor City because of the links to their country... Saudi company's will do the same with Newcastle etc.

Quite right. They do not understand how sponsorship works. You don’t cold call, you start with business contacts, shareholders, etc etc and work outwards from there. But they have added “associated“ just to get at us.