PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[TinFoilHat]

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That's a banner waiting to be made for a big televised home game.

 

[cheekybids]

He's a silent assassin, don't worry about that. The PL know it too.

He doesn’t have to tell anyone he’s nailed them & even when the cunts been nailed they’ll be thinking where did that come from…..

Have a look back over the last 15 years & you may see the pattern.

 

[StockportJB76]

I can not understand why there is not more press on Chelsea as their predicament could be really difficult.

Firstly been pointed out that FFP could result in Everton going into administration.

If Chelsea were relegated how would their model hold up and could they face a similar issue? Profit and turnover potentially weak in comparison to wage costs as no likelihood of Champions League yet. If relegated, these figures worsen dramatically. Also unlikely to be able to sell many players on these long contracts, unless they have relegation clauses. Could that mean administration for them also?

If City were hit with draconian punishment, they do so from an excellent financial position which would buffer the affects.

FFP potentially causing the potential financial ruin of clubs. Nothing more than a power grab from the cartel.

 

[John Wayne]

I think we will be seeing lots of shit coming out such as this:

So Spurs used unlicenced agents to improve their on-field performance? They denied us a CL place by three points a season later? Well, well. Wouldn't it be a shame if we were to sue the bastards if found guilty?

 

[Levyblue]

Didn't Everton vote to introduce FFP into the Premier League? If so, what did they think would happen? Did they believe that this was just a tool tool to limit Manchester City?

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

I think we will be seeing lots of shit coming out such as this:

Plucky little Spurs? Surely some mistake.

Oh well, how much did them getting into the CL over us cost us.

 

[Silva61]

The media onslaught keeps coming on thick and fast because rags, dips and Arse are not winning leagues. They haven't been able to sell papers for getting on 20 years. The fucking click (that they thought would keep them afloat) cannot be properly monetised. So we're back to the rags, dips and Arse plasticos are not clicking on another rag loss, another Arse poor season or the dips having had one good season in the last 34 are they? So the only thing the said plasticos like, or will click on, is a big anti-City story, hence we get an avalanche on a daily basis. It was bothering me up until the weekend, but now I have decided to enjoy their deep fucking hurt. Bunch of fan boy fanny farts, ALL of them.

1 title in the last 10 years between them.

 

[halfcenturyup]

The vast majority know very little about FFP and even less about our charges (or Everton's). Even if we were found "guilty" of all the charges, we're talking about probably £12.5m per year. I thought it was slightly more but Reuters estimated the image rights as £10m, whereas I thought it was around £17m. That's nowhere near enough to turn meeting the PL's FSR into failing them, as Everton did.

And none of our charges post-date 2018, so for the last five years, while we've won all these trophies under Pep, there's been no problem.

How do the image rights work, PB? I am guessing the club makes money out of players' image rights then pay a % to the player? But if that's the case and the rights were sold upfront for 24 million, wouldn't you expect an annual impact more in the region of 3-5 million rather than 10-17 million? Or are you talking about the impact only on expenses rather than the net impact (revenue less expenses)?

 

[dadnlad]

yep this is the case and people are forgetting this. We might have failed FFP but we were nowhere near failing FSR so all this £5 mill per point extra stuff is a non starter

Shit I'll have to write. More new rules

 

[Iassel]

You wouldn't have thought so, but this is pretty much what UEFA did, so it's not beyond the realms of possibility. Never underestimate the stupidity of football administrators.

I mean let’s be fair to UEFA (and I don’t say that often), it’s very possible that they could’ve had some success with the allegations ultimately deemed time barred - UEFA and their very experienced and respected lawyers argued that time barring was not appropriate and CAS ultimately ruled against them.

That UEFA couldn’t uphold their case doesn’t by default mean there wasn’t at least at some level a case to answer.

Similarly, we all want to believe that the PL just threw this all out to stop the leaked imminent announcement of an Independent Regulator, and are just continuing the process and committing tens of millions of £££ in legal fees as a cheeky punt to appease the American owners but it doesn’t pass a ‘balance of probabilities’ smell test.

Clearly the PL and its legal team believe they have something convincing. Clearly the external team taking it on believe they have enough to land the charges - even with the millions of £££ on offer, these are super respected guys who won’t want to make themselves or their chambers a laughing stock by pushing a high profile case with nothing supporting it.

City will I’m sure be cautiously optimistic that they can show that the charges are if not completely disproved, then immaterial (ie £1m to Mancini when the club was already making insane losses), but clearly the claims that City are extremely bullish and believe the whole thing is a done deal are bollocks. No lawyer ever underestimates the lottery of a court case even with what they believe to be irrefutable evidence.