PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Kippax77]

Far too many on this thread need to do the following:
• stop buying newspapers
• listen to music on the radio instead of talkSPORT
• Stay off twitter.
• No podcasts.


Honestly it’ll be better for your health, sit back and let the most well organised and best run club in world football handle it.

What's twitter?

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

It was always a laughable notion that the PL wouldn’t be able to afford a legal team every bit as strong as ours.

The thing that screws us will be if doctored/ hacked documents can be used as genuine evidence.

That's it isn't it.. what Rui Pinto says vs what City accountants/ sponsors/ CEO say!

 

[Ric]

Surprised that more hasn’t been made of Alison Brittain’s possible role in all this. A self-confessed United fan, she became PL chair in January and within a month these charges are hastily announced. Was it a pre-condition to certain clubs approving her appointment? Can she really be considered in any way neutral?

 

[Ric]

The thing that screws us will be if doctored/ hacked documents can be used as genuine evidence.

That's it isn't it.. what Rui Pinto says vs what City accountants/ sponsors/ CEO say!

The hacked emails were considered permissible evidence at CAS, and will be again here. The emails alone though are far from sufficient to find us guilty of what is being alleged.

 

[Kippax Street 1880]

Surprised that more hasn’t been made of Alison Brittain’s possible role in all this. A self-confessed United fan, she became PL chair in January and within a month these charges are hastily announced. Was it a pre-condition to certain clubs approving her appointment? Can she really be considered in any way neutral?

Its her isn't it

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

Surprised that more hasn’t been made of Alison Brittain’s possible role in all this. A self-confessed United fan, she became PL chair in January and within a month these charges are hastily announced. Was it a pre-condition to certain clubs approving her appointment? Can she really be considered in any way neutral?

I'm not at all sure that these charges are a direct result of either rival clubs (usual suspects) putting pressure on the PL or the fact that a United fan is the chair really. They must think they have a case as it makes no sense to launch a suicide mission against the leading club just to placate some others knowing it's doomed to failure. You'd imagine the top legal team they've assembled might have mentioned it too if they thought it was a no-hoper.

It might be a comforting thought that Alison Brittain said 'let's stick it to the Berties' but again how realistic is that? They are going all out with no expense spared and it's going to be legal warfare.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Doesn’t count for much aside from gave them a dry run albeit with less documents. But the principles and difficult of proving the case for the PL is as hard on this one as it was for UEFA

However hard it was, it didn’t stop one of the 3 CAS judges voting against us at almost every opportunity. Mind you, he was hand-picked by the opposition……

 

[daveoswald]

Yeah despite being a Cockney red I actually quite like Goldstein. He's a good sport and amusing in a way - not nasty or vitriolic towards City despite his dodgy taste.

No problem with the guy, the subtle and not so subtle on Talksport are Jordan, Kelly, Rushton, the penis flasher Glendenning, and I believe the Forest fan Goldbridge has now got his own spot, and sadly McCoist is showing signs to be turning red.

 

[Oystercatcher28]

Far too many on this thread need to do the following:
• stop buying newspapers
• listen to music on the radio instead of talkSPORT
• Stay off twitter.
• No podcasts.


Honestly it’ll be better for your health, sit back and let the most well organised and best run club in world football handle it.

Add avoid VAR and I'm with you.

 

[Bez]

Haaland signed for us before the charges, if we get a hefty sentence he will be off just like pep will be off as well, everything we have built could come tumbling down. Let's hope we come out this okay but I keep swinging between two mind sets regarding all of this one minute I think we're going to be fucked bad then I see something on here that makes me think otherwise. Let's hope we come out of it okay.

Agreed. Assuming the tribunal is independent and we have genuinely committed some serious misdemeanours then we will deserve some form of punishment which will no doubt spell the end of the Pep project and all that entails. Based on everything I have read/heard etc I don't believe the club have fucked up. I am still of the belief this is a witch hunt. It was the same with the UEFA process. Complete shambles. We've gate crashed the party. The establishment don't like it now and didn't like it then. That's why the goal posts moved repeatedly on ffp by UEFA to catch City out. And now, the PL have thrown the book at us in a hurry which feels like more of a 'fuck you!' because of sheer frustration with their investigation. They've got nothing. If they had us by the goolies why did they rush their announcement about the charges out? Someone was leaning on them. Plus they were trying to look tough in front of the government.

Unless there's something we don't know about, City should be able to defend themselves. The PL have to prove City have committed fraud on an industrial scale. If they manage to do that our legacy is in tatters. The experts don't think they will be able to.

City...Manchester City...we are the lads who are playing to win!