PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[city2]

Can we charge the Premium League with deformation of character and also use the racist card because this is what the issue is really about and the club should come out and say it. Or let it be known through whispers

 

[mancityvstoke]

At least this thread has outed quite a few of em

 

[halfcenturyup]

No, on the contrary I suspect that in the end it benefits neither the league, its brand, nor City for the sanctions to be of any real significance. I'm just guessing btw and have no professional insights or anything like that, but I can see it being a points deduction which maybe means a season out of the CL, and a slap on the wrist. But not much beyond that.

The wider damage to the club's reputation is now done. We've gone from old titles being questioned to literally every season up to and including the 100 point one being in breach of PL rules. Whether we win or lose from here, the damage is done.

There is no way you can come to that conclusion without knowing the details of each charge. They may all be minor inadvertent breaches in which case a points deduction would be excessive even if proven.

It seems to me most of the charges are the same as the UEFA charges are they not? And they depended largely on getting external companies accounting which was never going to happen. Same here. Some new stuff but nothing major I can see unless we really are paying salaries out of AD, which I can't imagine, or think how the PL would know.

 

[Blue and true]

The bastards have got you, it's what they want.

But that's the thing mate, I think it's what I want too. Maybe this was just an instigator. Irrespective of what comes of this, in ten years I can say with confidence I won't be devoting half as much energy into City and football in general as I do now.

 

[domalino]

This is what I have been trying to get at and understand. You look at the wording of the clauses we have been charged with and it reads like something well above the PL pay grade. If they thought it was the case, surely this morning would have played out slightly differently, with CFG being raided by police rather than a statement on the PL website? Much like Juve were.

None of the charges nor their wording implies any law breaking at all, only Premier League rule breaking so I don’t know how you’ve worked that out.

 

[Gundoggin]

So the very latest the PL have appointed a woman called Allison to take on MCFC with these “allegations “ just two days before a football white paper is being introduced……..

Wtf is really going on here ???

 

[The blue phantom]

When you’re the head of a trillion dollar investment fund and run half the UAE, everything is involving 4Bn+ investments.

I'm fairly certain his reputation and the Sheikhs are as important to defend than closing out Multi Billion pound deals.

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

What I think is happening, reading between the lines of things like this. https://www.skysports.com/football/...-what-could-punishment-be-whats-the-timescale

The premier league have taken the emails from the hack + the club's finances and looked for anything that vaguely sounds suspicious. The league, with certain clubs taking a lead, have demanded that City publish further economic materials or private correspondence that they have refused. The league are now taking City to a commission to get access to those materials. When something similar happened at CAS there were in fact lots of communications that cast doubt on the hacked email reporting, but that the club hadn't been open and honest in the first instance. I remain convinced that City weren't happily doing corruption via internal emails because why the fuck would they be that stupid. Everyone at the club feels very, very firmly that they're run as legitimate business, and the commentators who want City charged for general corruption will be very disappointed. The league has rushed this through in part because the government is about to publish their own white paper, and that as a result some of these charges are going to be very, very hard for them to get to stick.

 

[argyle]

seriously there are people who are going to be very disappointed when we're just fined for not complying with the investigation.

 

[geek24601]

Well that’s very informative - let’s hope then eh

I’m reacting to what has happened like everyone else on here. None of us know the truth. If you have anything more informative maybe post it instead of pointing out flaws in others posts.