PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[tonea2003]

£300m in prize money
€70m new sleeve deal
£150m sales
£ money still owed

Go & spend the fucking lot especially after reports City will break £700m turnover

Chelsea again giving out 8 year deals yesterday before the new 5 year deal only kicked in today, what they have done & still doing + selling made up prices to Saudi teams for players is exactly what the Prrmier League should be investigating not something supposed to happen back in 2011 or some bullshit YouTube video

Sell Mahrez, Laporte & Phillips then go & smash £300m on Gvardiol, Veiga, Coman, FDJ
Bring back Fernandinio & 1 other for coach

you can give the length of deal you want, but what will change is the length of time you can spread payment over

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

No. I'm the shadowy figure from the UAE who gave City 30 million.

So who’s the shadowy figure who made the YouTube video?

 

[SomeMightSay]

That’s the real bombshell if people choose to read between the lines…

Which of course the target audience won’t, because, just as the fish doesn’t have the capacity to recognise water, they simply can’t even read in this instance.

Like the amoeba they are only equipped to process the sh*t that’s in front of them.

Eat and excrete. The more the trough gets filled, the more they excrete…and so on, and so forth…

‘Amoeba-pigs’

Fuck off Cantona

 

[donkinho]

I thought der Spiegel had stolen 100 of thousands of emails from clubs all around Europe, yet the only choose to cut and paste the City ones. Why ?

Its clearly a witchhunt

They did - apparently about 50 million emails from clubs all around Europe including 1.5 million from City. Yet they published errrr…. Six - 2 of which were cut and spliced in an attempt to show they’d said something which they hadn’t. Anyone with a fraction of objectivity can see that “the attempt to damage the club’s reputation is organised and clear” to quote a certain individual

 

[lancs blue]

Let's hope it continues we seem to win things when we have our backs to the wall.

This whole mess has been so counter-productive for the red-shirts it's hilarious. They set out to stop us and we just get bigger and better. Not only that but the "PL brand" wouldn't be half as attractive in terms of TV revenue without Aguerooooo and now of course the proper treble plus our increased worldwide popularity could give the TV deal another boost at the next round. Killing the goose that laid the golden egg springs to mind.

 

[give it to gordon]

They did - apparently about 50 million emails from clubs all around Europe including 1.5 million from City. Yet they published errrr…. Six - 2 of which were cut and spliced in an attempt to show they’d said something which they hadn’t. Anyone with a fraction of objectivity can see that “the attempt to damage the club’s reputation is organised and clear” to quote a certain individual

So why didnt UEFA and the pl just ignore it ?

It really doesnt make sence does it. Unless it's a pure witchhunt which it is.

But this is football, the pl chairman can say we have a plan for a different winner every 6 years. No one calls him out.

 

[halfcenturyup]

All the articles, talks on talk segments etc, are pointing back to segments of that, and trying to use as something 'new' to relate to the PL process. Then they are all echoing each other, writing about what the previous claimed, with a little bit of individual embellishment and a bit less detail each round. Imo.

Well yes, that would be the coordinated part.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

I think your taking it to an extreme there, I would say in this hypothetical case that if somehow it got through the enquiry period with no evidence (and who would sign that off) that an application would be made to strike out the charge due to insufficient evidence that would be upheld and the verdict would be damning to the other side (even if you went down wild conspiracy everyone was against us, it would get out to the courts that one due to the unfair nature).

You may find this has been done in our case since the charges and on the day of the independent panel that we will face far less then the 115 charges. However, dependent on what the accusation is at that point we where be the ones with burden of proof (that doesn’t mean we have to do it beyond doubt).

We then have my issues with the links between the independent panel and PL (which is not an accusation of conspiracy or corruption, just the slight marginal gains the PL will have).

I know exactly where’s you’re coming from Fuzzy.

And while we should (and will) leave no stone unturned to ensure as independent as possible a panel, I am also reassured by the fact that regardless of the integrity of the charges themselves, in our pocket, we are toting, in the words of our Chairman, in whom I place inexorable trust, ‘irrefutable evidence’.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

It’s good for the media to regurgitate and make the public believe they have a new angle on what’s going to happen. The Daily Mail survives on its traffic and the comments section on each article shows where people are reading. I stupidly looked out of curiosity yesterday and the so called new revelations that came about Thursday article had comments in the thousands. You looked at other stories the comments were in the hundreds.

Getting their readers angry over a £30 million Etisalat payment over decade ago and not explaining the context of it is good for business.

Exactly right, and not just The Mail, although it is the most repulsive. It knows its target audience and how to rile them up. The front pages are full of spite about Prince Harry, ’lefties’, the Unions, ’remoaners’ etc, and the back pages casually target City as a natural born enemy of United and Liverpool, the clubs with the most fans. Get them clicking away and you’re quids in.

I have to say though that the reactions of many of those fans, whilst unquestionably having their strings pulled by elements of the media, isn’t hard to understand. If it were say Arsenal who had had their emails hacked and who had been the ones apparently fronting up the cash on behalf of a sponsor, I too would be jumping up and down wanting answers. It looks like disguised equity funding and tbh I’m still not sure how it isn’t. I thought I had a semblance of a grasp on it on here a couple of weeks ago when someone said we got the Abu Dhabi Executive Authority (central funds) to pony up the shortfall, but now the suggestion is that ADUG paid it themselves. The matter was time barred at CAS, so we didn’t actually get a verdict on City’s explanation, but it may not be time barred this time (cos I’m pretty sure that 6 year English law limitation will not apply) around.

Piers Moron and those backing that You Tube non-shock revelation, may be utter cnuts with an agenda, but I think casually dismissing the issue, as many on here seem to be doing, on the grounds that CAS looked at it previously, is not a mistake that City will make in front of the Tribunal

 

[Norman kneejerk]

I thought der Spiegel had stolen 100 of thousands of emails from clubs all around Europe, yet the only choose to cut and paste the City ones. Why ?

Its clearly a witchhunt

Would be interesting to know what the steps were from the emails being stolen, to the cut and paste , publication by der speigel I.e who was pulling the strings , might make an interesting story.