PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Pingu the Penguin]

What rules were breached?

Premier League statement

www.premierleague.com

 

[paulchapo]

Has Martin Samuel commented yet?

 

[citymad]

It will not end though. Even if we "win" and are found innocent, we've not complied since they opened the investigation. So they'll claim we're guilty. The same way you get idiots like Jordan saying we got away with it at CAS because of a technicality. Innocent and guilty aren't black and white when there's an agenda. They'll find something else to criticise us of. Ideally the barcodes can spoil the top 4, make the CL and then spend a fortune. They're still getting a lot of love at the moment, but that will end as soon as they "steal" someone's place at the top table.

Don't think so Newcastle will be much more conscious to dot the I's and cross those T's. The only ones sweating right now will be Chelsea.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

When this goes to the high court and City win do the pl pay us damages ?

No. Because that will be seen as giving us more money and an unfair advantage over the other clubs!

 

[Centurions]

You better hope you're not! You better hope that you are innocent of all 100 charges.

Worry about your own club sweetheart, we're fine.

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

I don't believe for one minute that we paid off Mancini's severance fee and didn't include it in the accounts - that would be arguably more amateurish and stupid than anything Swales ever did. I thought the Mancini stuff was to do with whether he'd taken up another post and was being paid for that as well as for managing City?

As for inflation of investments - hasn't this already been dealt with by UEFA/CAS and ultimately no evidence of wrongdoing was found?

The Mancini one always sounded the most likely to me tbh. I'm not sure what we'd get for that if found guilty tho

 

[BlueTG]

All respect to him but he deals in the accounting side of things not so much the legal?

Maybe so.

I’m not really sure what to make of it, and he (among a few others) offer a good perspective regardless of all the noise.

I’m halfway between flapping and shrugging this off!

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Has Martin Samuel commented yet?

Hope he can’t comment as he’s on the disciplinary panel!!

 

[Milesvk]

Cut the grass too short! Rule K20

I knew that 2-1 win over Liverpool looked dodgy!!

 

[cjn]

I have just spoken to a friend inside CFG.

They aren't worried, and neither should we be.

There are no surprises. Khaldoon will burn down the entire Premier League house if it comes to it.

Not for nothing, but if the charges brought today are so trivially easy to disprove as they'd need to be for the club not to be worried, it means the people in charge of dealing with this investigation for the last four years are wildly incompetent and need sacking.