PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[KS55]

Have the PL given us details yet? They are supposed to disclose exactly what we are charged with and the evidence therefor.

 

[SatOnTheWall]

Have the PL given us details yet? They are supposed to disclose exactly what we are charged with and the evidence therefor.

They haven’t got any evidence. It would be gleefully all over the media if they had. These fools have never been able to keep anything quiet.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Absolutely it would be all over the media if the PL had some key information that somehow makes sense and brings this all together.

 

[KS55]

They haven’t got any evidence. It would be gleefully all over the media if they had. These fools have never been able to keep anything quiet.

If they reply: “e-mails” I expect our brief to laugh his cock off. ( A repeat of CAS)

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

If they reply: “e-mails” I expect our brief to laugh his cock off. ( A repeat of CAS)

If this were a proper Court, I’d agree. In this case though the prosecution have picked the judge……

 

[remember arthur mann]

Have we broken any law or broken an agreement in the Premier League contract ?

 

[Fred_Quimby]

I am still at a loss with this though. IF what they are accusing us of is true then we have committed some very serious offences, fraud being just one, and not minor fraud either. Our accountants would have to be complicit and all those ramifications. IF these are true then why aren’t HMRC and police involved and dawn raids on the Etihad?? A mystery.

 

[Chippy_boy]

I am still at a loss with this though. IF what they are accusing us of is true then we have committed some very serious offences, fraud being just one, and not minor fraud either. Our accountants would have to be complicit and all those ramifications. IF these are true then why aren’t HMRC and police involved and dawn raids on the Etihad?? A mystery.

I agree - I made a similar point recently. If we've fiddled the books, that is not a PL rules issue, it would be a criminal offence leaving executives liable to prosecution and potentially imprisonment. Which is why I cannot believe we have done anything other than "creative accounting" - fully legal creative accounting - at most.

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

I am still at a loss with this though. IF what they are accusing us of is true then we have committed some very serious offences, fraud being just one, and not minor fraud either. Our accountants would have to be complicit and all those ramifications. IF these are true then why aren’t HMRC and police involved and dawn raids on the Etihad?? A mystery.

Defrauding the exchequer is a lot more serious than putting one over the Premier league. Surely they should have been smashing the door down of the Etihad back in February and taking away computers, files, documents and interviewing senior execs. Why don’t they seem to bothered to do so?

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Either way I would have though law courts. They're literally accusing the club of false accounting to the govn ultimately aren’t they?