PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Keeper!]

Arsenal forced to pay more than they wanted for Rice then 24 hours later a article in the Daily Fail bringing up more accusations on our alleged PL breaches, coincidence?

 

[BerkshireBlue]

Not providing true and accurate accounts

Accounts were accurate though. Doesn't matter where the money has come from for this. Whether it's an owner pumping in £200 million or not it's still accurate accounts that gave a true and fair view of the business. Any charge relating to this will be dropped very quickly.

What they think they've got is city not complying with UEFA rules and not enumerating players and staff properly. That's the only two charges they could go for in my opinion

 

[bitterblue78]

Has delaney got his wanking socks on

 

[SatOnTheWall]

Wonder how you get hold of a leaked UEFA report? Do you just ring them up?

Hi is that UEFA? I'm ringing in relation to the confidential report that you have. Which one? The confidential one. Oh great. Can you fax it to me? Yeah my number is 0161 676 7770.

The words “gill” and “david”spring to mind.

 

[bluenova]

im coming from it as a layman , sorry if i went to the extreme, but i cant get my head around the "we have to prove our innocence" theory .

all this legal speak baffles me , so does the law of the land in truth,i think lawyers are paid to make things sound good and drag stuff out :) for keeerching

I don't think it's quite that we have to prove we didn't do it, but rather, everyone tells their side, and the panel decide who they believe.

If you were up in court for murder, the prosecution would have to prove you did it, and convince a jury. The onus is on them to prove it. If they put forward a weak case, you can just say nothing.

The PL case may be on a lower bar of who is believed. If they put forward a weak case, City still need to respond to it, and their defence has to be a bit stronger. So, I don't think City need cast iron proof - they just need plausible explanations, and evidence that is better than the PL.

So, if the only evidence is the emails, and they suggest one thing, but City executives sit there and say that's not what they meant, it comes down to whether they are believed. If there isn't more evidence of something happening, and City's explanations are consistent and plausible, then they wouldn't need to prove 100% that they didn't do it.

 

[Norbiton]

At the time in 2012 and 2013 the club reported £118 million losses. This £30 million even if City are bang to rights on it was no where near getting the club to the break even to comply with financial fair play. What advantage did City get from it? I’ve stated in previous posts City have been fined nearly £60 million from the initial settlement in 2014 and non cooperation charges in 2020. They’ve clawed back double the amount. The hysteria coverage you get of this case you’d think they’d been at it with £100s of millions, £30 million split in two even back in 2013 isn’t a lot of money in footballi financing.

If you think back to 2012/13 City still thought they could pass FFP, just, because of the leeway offered by wages of players signed before its introduction being discounted. But it was only just, every penny was crucial at that time. It was suggested that Mancini’s pay off might derail it. So the £30 million advance payment against the Etisalat sponsorship was definitely necessary even if it broke no rules. Of course in the end it was futile, we’d already been deemed to fail on the 2011/12 accounts and had to accept the slap on the wrist. Trying to revive this now and suggest further penalties are appropriate all seems a bit desperate

 

[BlueMoonday]

We've seen physical assaults on our fans against Forest and Leeds at home last season and I'm sure there's been other instances.


Those who are publishing this dross are responsible for these kind of assaults and are inciting hatred towards the club. It's disgusting.

 

[Phoenix900000]

That c... Lawton just been on Talkspirt, Brazil just said come on 2011 just move on, Lawton disagreed saying City are now reeping the rewards based on what went on in 2011, Brazil then mentions come on Real Madrid & others in which Lawton agreed but washed over it bringing City back into conversation

One thing for sure it's not going to get done anytime soon

Lawton also mentioned Martin Samual bigging City up regarding the establishment but yet again changed his tone into basically City are cheats without any outcome complete

Lawton sounds like a little, bitter and jealous man :)

Fair dos to Brazil telling him what we all are thinking in terms of other club dealing and how boring this whole situation is

 

[NJMCFC184]

We've seen physical assaults on our fans against Forest and Leeds at home last season and I'm sure there's been other instances.


Those who are publishing this dross are responsible for these kind of assaults and are inciting hatred towards the club. It's disgusting.

Physical assaults?

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

We're not being charged with breaches of PL FFP

But these payments were in the accounts for the seasons we made huge losses and we were fined £49m for breaching those years weren’t we? What difference did it make? They are mentioned in the CAS documents so there is nothing secret about them. The name of the person who paid them was redacted. That’s it.