PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[nmc]

TBH I'd never considered when exactly he was employed by the AD club, perhaps the PL want the full details of his contract there and want us to procure them? It would explain the stalemate.

But if it’s not a PL club is it in their jurisdiction?

 

[waspish]

TBH I'd never considered when exactly he was employed by the AD club, perhaps the PL want the full details of his contract there and want us to procure them? It would explain the stalemate.

Why that job had nothing to do with Man City

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

100% the premier league will have to make at least one charge stick , they would look fools otherwise , the non-co-operation is the favourite which is all the media and the feral hate filled plastic fans around the world need.
We will be branded cheats , but the haters will be disappointed ,non-co-operation at the very worst is a delaying tactic , so no titles will be removed ,no relegation ,no points deduction , no transfer embargo , no ground closure , no asterisk in the record books ,and a fine that will be paid with the change found down the back of Sheik Mansour's sofa.
Our owners getting a slap on the wrist will not affect our club commercially , sponsors will still want to be associated with the best run club in europe ,and investors will still find us an attractive option.
The Premier league and Masters can then dance to the Rags & Dippers next tune , the Barcodes will be in their sites now they have taken the Dippers Champs league place , that is nailed on.

 

[nmc]

Why that job had nothing to do with Man City

Think the PL consider it a sham to pay him under the table!

 

[dubblue]

100% the premier league will have to make at least one charge stick , they would look fools otherwise , the non-co-operation is the favourite which is all the media and the feral hate filled plastic fans around the world need.
We will be branded cheats , but the haters will be disappointed ,non-co-operation at the very worst is a delaying tactic , so no titles will be removed ,no relegation ,no points deduction , no transfer embargo , no ground closure , no asterisk in the record books ,and a fine that will be paid with the change found down the back of Sheik Mansour's sofa.
Our owners getting a slap on the wrist will not affect our club commercially , sponsors will still want to be associated with the best run club in europe ,and investors will still find us an attractive option.
The Premier league and Masters can then dance to the Rags & Dippers next tune , the Barcodes will be in their sites now they have taken the Dippers Champs league place , that is nailed on.

Yep,the premier league kangaroo court will find us guilty of something,that’s a certainty. Why City fans would care I’ll never know.

 

[jimmygrimblesboots]

Yep,the premier league kangaroo court will find us guilty of something,that’s a certainty. Why City fans would care I’ll never know.

Will still be wearing my shirt with pride with the gold premier league badges on the sleeves and hopefully our new club badge with one Champions league star above , and just to complete the wind up for our haters a big £ sign on the back of the shirt :)

 

[deano ou812]

What agitates me is the feigned shock and disgust at 'extra payments to Mancini'

I mean who gives a fuck, why is that so horrific in a league which has teams that have paid ridiculous compensation to sack managers who have failed to reach their targets. The whole thing is rotten.

Of course it’s rotten but it’s ok,as we are now the scapegoat and the go to team when it comes to blaming,while a blind eye is turned at all others,there is teams WHO have committed offence’s regarding the premier league rules but we are being used/abused to deflect from them ..

 

[77lost by a point]

I don't claim to speak for the others, but from my point of view the temptation to try to dampen expectations is always strong. Most people on here understand that, in a football match, the objectively stronger of the two teams sometimes doesn't win and the better of the teams in any given match can also lose. But they expect law to be an exact science when it also isn't and can often go either way (albeit for different reasons).

Issues that look black and white to a layman can often be very much subject to wildly differing interpretations when outstanding legal minds get to grips with them, and this is what I try to convey. I remember Stefan posting on here before the CAS proceedings that, in any litigation, there's a risk of 30% that you'll lose even if you think your case is iron-clad.

Now, when I was a UK government lawyer back in the day, we had a case that we considered pretty much a cert and our QC (as his title then was) put our chances at 80%. That still meant we were a 1-in-5 shot to lose even when we thought we had a slam-dunk. (We did win in the end, by the way.) But the percentages are immaterial. The key point is that, even where your case seems really strong, you never know for sure how it'll go.

I was asked yesterday what would happen where, in effect, the evidence were exactly the same as before the CAS on the substantive point considered in the latter forum and we appealed an adverse decision of the PL panel on the ground that it was so perverse that it must demonstrate a failure of the panel to act in accordance with its statutory duty. My view is that such an argument would be have significant merit.

Unfortunately I can't even begin to try and guarantee that the High Court would agree. That's the difficulty in posting on legal issues here when there's an understandable desire from other posters for certainty that doesn't really exist.

Very interesting post. I have a number of questions but two in particular I've wondered about and you are more qualified to answer. When Platini introduced ffp he announced they were fully compliant with European law, did this mean EU law and if so could teams playing in European countries not members of the EU in theory have challenged in their own courts the legalities of this? Also if this is the case after Brexit is there any recourse to challenge against say freedom of free trade as an example.

 

[city2]

Yeah but that couple of extra million to Mancini is obviously the one and only reason we have won any trophies.

I’d even go as far as to say it’s the only reason we’ve ever won a game.

It cost a fortune in brown envelopes for Roberto to stop that bloody clock

 

[wolviedinho]

Came across this online from a legal source under his conclusions:

It is evident that FFP rules work for big and small clubs in different ways. In the case of wealthy clubs, in theory at least, it promotes competition by ensuring that teams don't acquire players at any price(rags & chavs), in order to achieve short term success on the pitch. For smaller clubs, it allows them to protect themselves financially, so that there are no more instances of teams such as Leeds United and Burton Albion, falling into administration. Everton/wolves might not agree!