But would the UK be wanting to be seen as accepting money off crooks?? We don't need to threatening withdrawing funding the problem will lie with the government how could they possibly accept money off such people if found guilty???There would be one problem with this scenario.
If it were to be proven that we were using "friends in high places" to have effectively threatened to withdraw investment in the UK as a tool in these "charges", the press and resultant fall-out would be astronomical.......... and ad infinitum. A political shit-storm in the making and the ruination of our club. Khaldoun is not stupid.
Therefore, never going to happen.
HahahaI beg your pardon?
Don’t think it would be an issue tbh. If leverage was applied and the EPL and its panel were advised by the government to kill the investigation for the greater national interest, the government could also slap what I think are called D notices on the issue to request no reporting for the next one hundred years, if they wanted to.There would be one problem with this scenario.
If it were to be proven that we were using "friends in high places" to have effectively threatened to withdraw investment in the UK as a tool in these "charges", the press and resultant fall-out would be astronomical.......... and ad infinitum. A political shit-storm in the making and the ruination of our club. Khaldoun is not stupid.
Therefore, never going to happen.
Call me cynical, but I reckon that ship has long since sailed!!!But would the UK be wanting to be seen as accepting money off crooks?? We don't need to threatening withdrawing funding the problem will lie with the government how could they possibly accept money off such people if found guilty???
The exact opposite, the charges girded our collective loins. Owners, board, senior management, playing staff, coaching staff, supporters, dinner ladies.Well it has not affected our togetherness, our results and our finences together with it reflecting in our global influence.
Comprehensive own goal I think but what else can they do.?
People in glass houses and all that.Call me cynical, but I reckon that ship has long since sailed!!!
Unworkable in the day of the internet.Don’t think it would be an issue tbh. If leverage was applied and the EPL and its panel were advised by the government to kill the investigation for the greater national interest, the government could also slap what I think are called D notices on the issue to request no reporting for the next one hundred years, if they wanted to.
That's also my understanding, and iirc the CAS verdict showed that UEFA had discussed this with City back in 2014 and were happy with the outcome. Therefore if the PL are claiming we overstated our sponsorship income on the basis of the Etisalat arrangement, it's hard to see how they can land this.
The former is correct.
We don't know for certain but there appear to be three core charges - Mancini's Al Jazira contract, the Etisalat sponsorship and image rights payments to players. These have been stretched out over multiple rules and multiple years, plus there's other charges arising from those that won't stand if those specific charges aren't upheld.
UEFA knew about Etisalat and image rights payments well before 2018 yet didn't charge us with any offence (although Etisalat was probably time-barred). They also knew about the Mancini contract in 2018, as a result of the Der Spiegel leaks, yet didn't charge us with that either, despite all the documentation being revealed. We don't know if UEFA discussed it with City as part of the charges that led to CAS, and it didn't come up at CAS so the assumption must be that there wasn't much mileage in that contract.