PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Well who would have guessed. This might send the likes of Harris, Tariq etc over the edge.

Our payback will be people like this being left permanently on the outside, as we become a true giant of the game in the next decade.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

The Mancini consultancy deal with the club in Abu Dhabi happened four years before FFP rules came in for the PL and before he joined City.

He signed the one that was published by Der Spiegel on the same day he joined the club iirc but it was only the final year of that contract that was covered by FFP. PL rules only came in after FFP, in 2014 I think. So it's basically one year of £1.75m for UEFA FFP and not covered at all by the PL's equivalent rules.

They could argue that the omission of that £1.75m meant our accounts weren't true and fair but given the scale of our losses in those years - £95m in 2012 and £195m in 2011 - good luck with that!

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

I am kind of halfway there. I don't blame the PL for opening an investigation once UEFA had started their process. My issue is more with timing. The PL should have waited for the end of the UEFA process and taken their findings into account, imo.

ehAnyway, Masters gets a lot of stick on here, but dettevyllwasn't it Scudamore who started the investigation? Masters can't really be expected to stop it without going through the process, in the same way Ceferin couldn't at UEFA.

In fact, I see this as the PL's Platini/ FFP moment. Weak management leading to a situation they rather wouldn't be in. Hopefully the same outcome.

As for Levy, he is just a useful idiot . We all know who is really driving this.

Masters is not very smart. He is out of his depth. How he got the job is a mystery but he was personally vetted by Directors of LFC and MUFC.

 

[BlueAnorak]

City don't think this will last beyond the year.

It's unravelling and had holes torn all the way through it.

Happy days.

Hope this is true. Some of the charges are ludicrous.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

How he got the job is a mystery but he was personally vetted by Directors of LFC and MUFC.

I can only assume the interview involved demonstrating his blow-job skills on the above panel.

 

[mattcity5]

Mansour looking very dapper there. All he needed was a sky blue tie :)

Light the sky blue touch paper and retire to a safe distance :P

He's wearing one of his many state-sponsored suits.

 

[Tb1981]

It’s amazing how people don’t care about the details they just assume we are guilty.
Dick heads like Scott minto yesterday saying we should be stripped of titles if found guilty.
Found guilty of what??
which charge? Which year? What are we supposed to have done exactly?
All these nobody’s handing out punishments but no idea at all of what we are alleged to have even done!!!

 

[Claytop]

It was glorious, Sky Sports camped on the other side of the road of the South Stand ready to broadcast our demise. The guy reporting looked like he had been told his wife had been shagging someone else and his dog had been run over when having to read out the statement.

Has anyone got a YouTube clip of it? It will be fucking glorious when we can play this one out again with the Premier League.

 

[SWP's back]

The verdict was announced by a short press release. The 91 page document with the full details did not follow until 2 weeks or so later.

Alcohol plays tricks with memory ..my bet is that you were pissed on both days :)

Then I must have read Bluemoon. Either way I like drinking and pissing on UEFA’s chips.

 

[jaiguruKun]

City don't think this will last beyond the year.

It's unravelling and had holes torn all the way through it.

Happy days.

This may be the reason why Pep was so bullish about a quick resolution in his press conference earlier this week.