PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[domalino]

37,000 posts on Bluemoon and you're accusing others of talking shite ;)

For the league to prove that we paid Mancini millions from wherever they would have to have that information. I doubt the PL can get that information themselves, therefore an government agency would be needed?

And what about the charge of inflating profits?

There is no charge of inflating profits. Do you mean inaccurate reporting?

 

[argyle]

This again.

Has no bearing on the outcome but I think City want to point out that it's been orchestrated by/for the usual suspects. Given the initial PL statement had many mistakes in too they want to give the optics that it's a rushed though shit show.

 

[Deleted member 77198]

So the question should be

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Or why always us?

Because we weren’t part of the G14 and aren’t part of the Cartel of clubs in the aftermath of that, weren’t part of the Sky Four or the original Premier League Five (remember when five clubs tried to set up the PL with ITV and try and get 75% of the revenue shared between themselves and the remaining 25% shared between the other 17 clubs?)… we’ve never been ‘in there’ with that group of clubs and the ones who’ve remained together as a group are basically business partners who all collude to enhance their own clubs and fuck the rest of us.

We turned up and upset their party and they’ve had it in for us ever since. We broke up the Sky Four, we were playing in the CL while many of the G14 were dropping out. It angered them… all! We aren’t one of them, we are a threat to them, they don’t want us up with them and they certainly can’t take it that we’ve overtaken them.

They have previous board members in prominent positions across the governing bodies; we have nobody. We are an outsider. We are their enemy.

They have worked together to get the two UEFA investigations and this Premier League investigation banged on our desks. The funny thing about that is that a group of businesses colluding to go against another business is literally a Cartel in UK, European and US legal systems and they are illegal. They have brought in ‘anti-competitive practices’ like FFP, which, again, is actually illegal.

 

[CorporateBlue]

In other news .. how is that EPL Investigation into the Rags abandoning that league game against the Dippers going?

#OneRule

 

[give it to gordon]

As we seem to be the only club being dealt with like this from the pl that's hope we blow the fuckers out of the water and a few clubs as well

 

[mcfcpride]

 

[Big Swifty]

To the Regiment!

 

[Lavinda Past]

It’d be nice to have a ref who’s an Arsenal fan given most referees, if not all are from the North and they all seem to support Man Utd or Liverpool.

It's Altrincham or Tranmere Jack. Try to keep up with the agenda.

;-)

 

[Jack Hackett]

i bloody well love this post, we should send this out in the villa programme, it should be pinned on the tactics board in our dressing room, we’re gonna unload & unleash everything every little dark secret the gruesome hateful 8 want hidden the premier league will regret their attack on us as we will unload the best legal minds on earth & expose all their skeletons in their closets, they wanted this remember the gloves will come off i don’t doubt we as a club have built dossiers on our enemy’s so it’s release the hounds time, they’ll wish they never started this witch-hunt on us.

The owners deserve a lot of credit for what they’ve given the community in Manchester and their investment in developing parts of east Manchester

 

[BobKowalski]

I was wondering about this.

Going back to 2009.......i mean really 14 years ?

Then allowing exactly the same thing to occur annually for 14 years before acting. Something really off with all that.

In my view going back to 2009 highlights the weakness of the case, especially as it is difficult to imagine everything was squeaky clean under Frank prior to 2009. ADUG took over in Sept 2008 and I don’t think they did much for the rest of that season apart from buying a few players and trying to get to grips with the basket case that was City at that time.

Given City seemed to have stopped cooperating, and with no real evidence to formulate more focused charges, this move seems to be about breaking the impasse, as City will cooperate with an independent enquiry. You can argue that City in many ways have forced this move.

The negative is that this does tarnish City’s name, but that has been the case since 2014. Equally, it damages the PL brand no matter how it plays out, so no idea what the PL thinks it is trying to achieve as it seeks to finally find out whether Mancini’s payout a decade ago had a sweetener on top.

No idea where this will end, but throwing shit at the wall from 2009 in the hope something sticks is a dumb strategy as shit flinging tends to end up with everyone covered in poo.