PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

burning blue soul said:
Define "a bit"

For homework look at:
Omar
Galassis
Jordan (gob now shut)
The Notts forest fan (gob closing)
BBC HYS (lot easier to remove negative comments, all of a sudden)
General reporting (or lack of, in msm press)
X-twit comments
Bluemoon comments
"Leaks" from club (tenuous, but fuck it!)
Pep news conferences
My own perceptions of general nuance.

When you gather all these small thread strands together it turns into a pot towel that looks to be being flicked venomously at the testicles of all our detractors. Which leads me to believe the club is on the offensive.
Obs, I could be seeing things that aren't there, but hope springs eternal, as a famous saying goes.

You slap your evidence down now, chumley!
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What’s General Nuance said?
 
Metal Biker said:
OOF!

The fact that an online rumour has this many people in the mainstream media rattled to the point of them writing an article denying it tells me this rumour actually has some legs to it.

They've been dining off "115" for over a year and clearly they don't want the feeding trough to end just yet.
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The mood music tells me that the PL has been told they're unlikely to make any of the charges stick at a full tribunal so they have a decision to make - Drop all of the charges or plough on with some possibly opening themselves up to possible litigation as a result of pursuing charges that have ittle chance of success.
I'd expected an absolute avalanche of media assaults on City in the press we were still in with a shout of the title T this stage of the season and the the fact not much has happened indicates that the press has been warned by City and they aren't willing to take the risk. Even the Mail article was very tame by their standards.
 
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Iassel said:
I mean I’ve been on the other side of the world for a month so thought maybe I’d missed something but as you say, just social media nonsense.

The only thing I would say is even 1% relevant is Galassi due to his board position but unfortunately the number of people involved in the process within the club will be in the single digits and he certainly won’t be one of them so his confidence will derive from his colleagues telling him they’ve done nothing wrong.
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I am glad you are back from the land with no Internet. I have missed your informative , high quality posts
 
BlueAnorak said:
The mood music tells me that the PL has been told they're unlikely to make amy of the charges stick at a full tribunal so they have a decision to make - Drop all of the charges or plough on with some possibly opening themselves up to possible litigation as a result of pursuing charges that have ittle chance of success.
I'd expected an absolute avalanche of media assaults on City in the press we were still in with a shout of the title T this stage of the season and the the fact not much has happened indicates that the press has been warned by City and they aren't willing to take the risk. Even the Mail article was very tame by their standards.
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It read like "Er no! No! Uh uh, they haven't at all! My mate told me!"
 
Metal Biker said:
OOF!

The fact that an online rumour has this many people in the mainstream media rattled to the point of them writing an article denying it tells me this rumour actually has some legs to it.

They've been dining off "115" for over a year and clearly they don't want the feeding trough to end just yet.
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Hopefully the end is nigh. And when it is they won’t even be able to spout the racist driven hatred they do for fear of being sued to hell and back. Lovely stuff!
 
nijinsky69 said:
If deliberate, use of the word “resolve” by Masters is odd and could imply some sort of negotiation…Time will tell I suppose!
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I was more interested in the whole phrase - 'the case will resolve itself at some point in the near future'... How's that then? Suggested to me that they don't have any control over it any more. Cases don't resolve themselves unless they fall apart and can't proceed (or the accused party fesses up), and if you're planning to present a killer argument to the tribunal then you'd expect your case to resolve it at the tribunal. Not for it to resolve 'itself'. Weird choice of phrasing, and I suspect, quite deliberate.

I think it's over myself, and they're currently begging City for ways to save face. Maybe they will throw them a bone, maybe not...
 
nijinsky69 said:
If deliberate, use of the word “resolve” by Masters is odd and could imply some sort of negotiation…Time will tell I suppose!
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It is odd ,I agree, but then at the same time I don't think Masters is anywhere near smart enough to have used that word deliberately. More likely he's just a bit clueless as to how to answer the question put to him and that happened to be the word he chose which loads of us are now reading too much into.

Realise I've posted a couple of fairly negative posts on here today in terms of not getting over excited. Hopefully something concrete comes out soon and it turns out there is something to the multiple pieces of noise, but right now imo that's all it is.
 
SalfordCityBlue said:
I was more interested in the whole phrase - 'the case will resolve itself at some point in the near future'... How's that then? Suggested to me that they don't have any control over it any more. Cases don't resolve themselves unless they fall apart and can't proceed (or the accused party fesses up), and if you're planning to present a killer argument to the tribunal then you'd expect your case to resolve it at the tribunal. Not for it to resolve 'itself'. Weird choice of phrasing, and I suspect, quite deliberate.

I think it's over myself, and they're currently begging City for ways to save face. Maybe they will throw them a bone, maybe not...
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I remember reading it at the time and it stood out as strange way to put it. However it could just be a mistake in phrasing and nothing else. He’s under pressure masters from all corners. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s just an ill thought out response.
 
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