PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Asa's left peg]

So how did you enjoy your job as a binman ?

Christ! I was much too under qualified for that. I could talk shit, though!

 

[Xhavenjoe]

I notice this thread has jumped a considerable amount of pages, can someone please sum up why the the jump?

Suzi Dent signed up to the forum

 

[Giovinco]

Has anyone got a copy of this Sheffield Hallam academic paper about city?

 

[SilverFox2]

The rags and dippers dont understand our Club is run by top class world business people.
These people aren't just running CFC but other big organisations. Very experienced people who are use to working at the very top of their field of expertise.

The rags and dippers are putting their faith in the PL run by old gits with blazers and comb overs.

It is unbelievable that the PL really think our people have been fiddling the books for over a decade. Top top world business people fiddling the books lol really why would they risk their reputations, their careers etc just for City ?

They are convinced that their sector of business ie football is special so that experts in investing elsewhere eg Sheikh M are out of their depth in it.
When this untruth failed despite their FFP manipulations they assume we must be cheating otherwise the truth would destroy their whole cult.

Actually they feared our owner and tried unsuccessfully to strangle his early investment strategy but dare not admit it.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Why the investigation took as long as it did you would have to ask the PL. The charge against the club is that for 10 years our accounts have been dodgy. That leaves us trying to prove a negative, namely that the accounts are legit. Which involves wading through the source material - the contracts, the invoices, the email trail.

Given the material that the club is compelled to provide I’m not surprised they wanted it heard in private. (A) all such proceedings are conducted in private, and (B) the nature of the material we will be relying on is completely confidential.

Having done nothing wrong and still wanting private information to stay private are completely consistent with each other. I’m sure you’ve done nothing wrong but if someone asked you how much tax you paid last year you’d tell them to mind their own business.

To hit us with allegations going back to 2009 (before FFP even came in) suggests Masters and his pals are acting in bad faith. Their broad motive is unclear but it increasingly looks just like an ongoing smear campaign against City. It is difficult to see what positives the PL can get out of this even if they win the case. Perhaps Masters knows that his career is over as soon as this case is concluded and he is just spinning it out to keep his bosses at LFC and MUFC happy till the superleague is revived. The sheer scale of allegations means the case will last many years and the PL lawyers must know this.

 

[The perfect fumble]

The rags and dippers dont understand our Club is run by top class world business people.
These people aren't just running CFC but other big organisations. Very experienced people who are use to working at the very top of their field of expertise.

The rags and dippers are putting their faith in the PL run by old gits with blazers and comb overs.

It is unbelievable that the PL really think our people have been fiddling the books for over a decade. Top top world business people fiddling the books lol really why would they risk their reputations, their careers etc just for City ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaldoon_Al_Mubarak

Khaldoon Khalifa Al Mubarak (Arabic: خلدون المبارك; born 1975) is an Emirati Government official and business leader. Al Mubarak holds senior positions within the Government of Abu Dhabi, including as: a member of the Executive Council since 2006, a member of the Supreme Council for Financial and Economic Affairs, and as the founding chairman of the Executive Affairs Authority. He also fulfills responsibilities for the UAE Federal government and has served as Presidential Special Envoy to the People's Republic of China since 2018.

Al Mubarak is chief executive officer and managing director of Mubadala Investment Company. He is also chairman of Manchester City FC, Melbourne City FC and Mumbai City FC. Al Mubarak is on the board of the UAE business ADNOC and serves as the Chairman of the Boards of the Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation, Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank and Emirates Global Aluminium.

Here he is visiting 10 Downing Street....

At City Academy with President Xi of China....

With Macron...

Obama....

Putin...

As CEO and Managing Director of the Mubadala Investment Company, Khaldoon manages assets of around 288 billion US Dollars. In 2022 alone Mubadala invested in excess of 29 billion Dollars worldwide.

I've a hunch that whatever Simon Jordan, Mark Goldbridge, RAWK, Daniel Levy and Julian on AFTV have to say about City, it probably doesn't give Khaldoon too many sleepless nights.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

The rags and dippers dont understand our Club is run by top class world business people.
These people aren't just running CFC but other big organisations. Very experienced people who are use to working at the very top of their field of expertise.

The rags and dippers are putting their faith in the PL run by old gits with blazers and comb overs.

It is unbelievable that the PL really think our people have been fiddling the books for over a decade. Top top world business people fiddling the books lol really why would they risk their reputations, their careers etc just for City ?

The rags and dippers dont understand our Club is run by top class world business people.
These people aren't just running CFC but other big organisations. Very experienced people who are use to working at the very top of their field of expertise.

The rags and dippers are putting their faith in the PL run by old gits with blazers and comb overs.

It is unbelievable that the PL really think our people have been fiddling the books for over a decade. Top top world business people fiddling the books lol really why would they risk their reputations, their careers etc just for City ?

This is the bit I don't get. Sheikh Mansour does deals worth billions in this country all the time. He bailed out Barclays Bank. To produce fraudulent accounts (as the PL claims) would involve a conspiracy of hundreds of people over a decade. It would involve all our major investors, auditors, Manchester City Council etc. It can't be true because if it was there would have been a whistleblower. The discredited Der Spiegl (Rui Pinto) emails are irrelevant to the latest PL allegations which are much more serious.

 

[The perfect fumble]

The discredited Der Spiegl (Rui Pinto) emails are nothing to do with the latest PL allegations which are much more serious.

The seriousness of the allegations is beside the point, you need proof, whether you're accused of stealing a Mars Bar or murder, and it is self evident that after four years of "investigation" the Premier League don't have the proof.

And how do I know this?

Because if they did have the proof, we wouldn't be talking about kangaroo courts, we'd be talking about punishment.

 

[Moggzy]

The seriousness of the allegations is beside the point, you need proof, whether you're accused of stealing a Mars Bar or murder, and it is self evident that after four years of "investigation" the Premier League don't have the proof.

And how do I know this?

Because if they did have the proof, we wouldn't be talking about kangaroo courts, we be talking about punishment.

Not necessarily, you still have to go though due process before punishment.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

The seriousness of the allegations is beside the point, you need proof, whether you're accused of stealing a Mars Bar or murder, and it is self evident that after four years of "investigation" the Premier League don't have the proof.

And how do I know this?

Because if they did have the proof, we wouldn't be talking about kangaroo courts, we be talking about punishment.

Agree 100 per cent. The PL would have just sanctioned us if they had any evidence. They have tried to kick it down the road but Masters is so stupid he thinks there will be no repurcussions for defaming City over such a prolonged period to keep his bosses happy. His laughable performance in front of the Commons Select Committee told you everything about his capabilities. He is out of his depth.