PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[dennis1976]

I wonder how many we will take to YORK AWAY this time.

 

[citytill1die84]

Serious question here then. How would you feel about the situation if City are indeed found guilty of the bulk of these charges (there 100 of them, so I'm going to assume some of these will stick) and City are handed an unprecedented punishment, say a massive points deduction? Will your anger and ire be directed at your owners, or at the PL?

We'll take the punishment and support our club back to the top.

 

[Bodicoteblue]

If somebody could summarise some of the main talking points that would be brilliant. I don't fancy reading all 234 pages. :')

‘We’re fucked’
’No we‘re not’
‘Oh yes we are’
’Oh no we’re not’
continue for 3 thousand pages!

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

We're not going to bring the entire Premier League down, can people stop saying this.

We didn't bring UEFA down and we won't do with this.

All we will do is fight the charges the PL has levelled at us.

Much like at CAS it's likely the judgement will find no evidence of concealing payments or inflating profits but evidence of non-compliance with the investigation.

You may be right and it seems a logical conclusion. I must say if there is evidence that our audited financial statements have material misstatements I will be less worried about the future of the club than I will be angry at our and/or our auditors' willingness to break rules. That's where this makes so little sense based on what I am reading about these accusations -- the entirety of our financial statement reliability comes crumbling down if some of the charges are true and it just beggars belief that a firm with the reputation of BDO would conspire with/look away from such shenangians. This is what destroyed Arthur Andersen.

 

[eyalluvitt]

If the club loses , we will be looking for new ownership

Sent to Coventry?

 

[Gordyola]

We're not going to bring the entire Premier League down, can people stop saying this.

We didn't bring UEFA down and we won't do with this.

All we will do is fight the charges the PL has levelled at us.

Much like at CAS it's likely the judgement will find no evidence of concealing payments or inflating profits but evidence of non-compliance with the investigation.

We complied it was the subject of a court case that City lost in the high court, the hearing that City and PL wanted to be kept secret but judge ruled otherwise He also made a comment aimed at the PL that City had won 4 titles since the original charge was made

 

[p.taker]

I wish people would stop posting stupid inane comments, I don’t know if they are trying to lighten the mood or whatever, but it’s not funny, witty or helpful. This is serious shit and we need to treat it as such.

 

[BossHog]

Probably the overgrown grass

We should a member of our backroom staff measuring the grass on Sunday in front of tv cameras

 

[01cravend]

Suppose we should have just got ourselves into 100s of million of pounds of debt instead. Because that's the correct way to run a football club apparently.

 

[Crooked_rain]

I am a Derby County fan and we have been absolutely shafted by the EFL for far less than what you guys have been charged with.

I think you are almost certain to see a huge points deduction and a two to three year transfer embargo.

Nobody cares about what happened to your piss pot club when the charges against us are far from being proven.