PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Iassel]

By the time it’s resolved an independent regulator may be in place and have something to say about this…

Any incoming regulator isn’t going to be going back and reviewing old decisions.

I suppose it could create reputational damage for panel members, if it's viewed they knowingly took part in a kangaroo court.

The tribunal panel will encompass extremely competent, respected KC’s who can demand an absolute fortune for their services. They’re not going to be putting themselves in position to be leaned on to make any ruling, nor are they going to allow any partisan considerations to influence their decisions.

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

No. We can only refer to court over agregious failures with the actual process.

We can't appeal to anyone if we disagree with the verdict.

Not having a means to appeal is a failure with the process!

 

[waspish]

Can the premier clubs vote to not have ffp because they voted for it!?

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

Seems like madness. The Premier League could pick on any club they don't like, have a hunch they are guilty of some trumped up charges, toss a coin and destroy them?

Could????????

Seems to me that they already have!

 

[Dribble]

I think the immediate deduction of the points is something of a red herring and it smacks of the letter from PL clubs demanding that the ban and fine on City should be imposed if City delayed proceedings at CAS. In fact CAS didn't even consider the demand because City never asked for a delay but it is unlikely CAS would have agreed. PL rules do lay down a procedure of appeal and it would be perverse to impose a penalty before the amechanism for appeals had been exhausted.

We'll only know the what the PL will do for certain, if/when Everton appeal.

We could end up unduly pooing ourselves unnecessarily. We've got until Thursday for Everton to make a move, so we'll know a lot more by then.

HOWEVER, the PL could still take a view on suspending sanctions pending appeals based on the severity of the case/sanction.

Such procedural uncertainty is criminal in such a huge industry. Let's hope the independent regulator is setup soon & has more teeth & integrity than OFCOM & the like.

 

[give it to gordon]

Seems like madness. The Premier League could pick on any club they don't like, have a hunch they are guilty of some trumped up charges, toss a coin and destroy them?

It is madness, the pl can just do a witchhunt on any club.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I think the immediate deduction of the points is something of a red herring and it smacks of the letter from PL clubs demanding that the ban and fine on City should be imposed if City delayed proceedings at CAS. In fact CAS didn't even consider the demand because City never asked for a delay but it is unlikely CAS would have agreed. PL rules do lay down a procedure of appeal and it would be perverse to impose a penalty before the amechanism for appeals had been exhausted.

The appeal shouldn’t take that long. They’re only contesting the severity of punishment, which was always bound to happen as there is no precedent.

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

Can the premier clubs vote to not have ffp because they voted for it!?

My guess is in order to comply approximately with UEFA FFP all member leagues have to adopt a version, so with the EPL it’s this profit and sustainability rules which since their inception in 2016 City have complied with. The charges against City are historic, tenuous and motivated by malice towards our club.

 

[SilverFox2]

Any incoming regulator isn’t going to be going back and reviewing old decisions.


The tribunal panel will encompass extremely competent, respected KC’s who can demand an absolute fortune for their services. They’re not going to be putting themselves in position to be leaned on to make any ruling, nor are they going to allow any partisan considerations to influence their decisions.

If they do I'm sure our cheaply assembled legal team will have a say.

 

[the-ecstacy-of-eight]

Think it was 6m overspend.

Can anybody make sense of these numbers...

..." a change in the way that UEFA adjusted for Covid-19 losses during the 2022 reporting period, which allowed them to recognise only €15m of the €281m of revenues lost due to the pandemic within the FFP calculation"...

..."it is understood United’s stance is that they were unable to adjust for €47m of Covid losses in the 2022 monitoring period because of an unforeseen change in how UEFA treated those losses during the transition to its revised financial sustainability regulatory framework. The losses came on top of €234m of pandemic-related losses across 2019-20 and 2020-21."

...because I can't.

Looks to me that it was reported as failing by 15million euros (about 13million pounds), which isn't a huge amount less than what Everton missed by