PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

bobbyowenquiff said:
I think this is unlikely to have come from the PL investigation not least because it only damages their case. I supect it has been a fishing expedition by Matt Lawton who no doubt spoke to Nick MCgeehan an an attempt to find some sort of angle on City during "the silly season" when there is not much news around. The youtube video is essentially a fake news story designed to damage City but personally I don't think that even someone as stupid as Richard Masters would have been involved. On the other hand it makes The Times look stupid for running a three-year-old story as a new one. They already got their fingers burned during the UEFA investigation when they ran some leaks which turned out to be false.
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Weird thing to put out then.
 
69FACUPfinal said:
Yes I was pleasantly surprised by both Dein and Oakshot. Lawton is a prize knob.
Fwiw agree with DD RE time wasting and penalties.

That mp was useless, City voted for an independent regulator.
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The MP was just the "rent-a-quote." I suspect he hasn't even seen the story as his comments were very general. Dein was great describing it as "something and nothing" and stressing three times that City were "innocent till proven guilty." It was powerful stuff from a former Arsenal Director.
Oakeshott was also great and very dismissive of the whole concept of "sportswashing" pointing out that 40 per cent of the UK arms industry depended on Saudi and the country itself was diversifying its economic activity into new areas, including sport. I honestly think this false "sportswashing" myth is dying out. It is obvious that Sheikh Mansour and the Saudis are in sport to make money knowing full well that it will also do no harm for their image and it is nothing to do with "human rights."
 
Ajm1985 said:
Weird thing to put out then.
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It is strange. I don't know why the Times would want to be associated with such a weak and poorly-sourced story. I can only assume that Matt Lawton is stupid or has questionable motives. You do wonder about the quality control on the Times Sportsdesk. It wouldn't take long to find the earlier story on Google. Perhaps it was just incompetence.
 
Ballosteve said:
I think they started the investigation in 2018 so they can go back to 2012,I may be wrong
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I would assume they can go back 5 years from the point they make the charge not open the investigation.

However PL rules maybe different to others.

Ultimately it’s not going to court but to a PL independent panel (I can tell you now no panel is independent if they are being paid by one of the parties, not suggesting foul play but that they will likely start with the PL statement of case as the facts with City having to disprove (making it an uphill battle)).

I think they are likely to accept it and explore it.

They will stick us with something but UEFA was the one. Very good chance what we alleged did, if we did was to get through UEFA FFP, Prem FFP we would be a lot more likely to pass anyway.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
It is strange. I don't know why the Times would want to be associated with such a weak and poorly-sourced story. I can only assume that Matt Lawton is stupid or has questionable motives. You do wonder about the quality control on the Times Sportsdesk. It wouldn't take long to find the earlier story on Google. Perhaps it was just incompetence.
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They're owned by NewsCorp. When the fuck have they ever cared about credibility?
 
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