PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Of course not. Let's be clear, the only reason this investigation came about was because of the Football Leaks emails, for which we only have ourselves to blame.


Plenty of clubs and players were mentioned in Wikileaks but City have been the ones targeted by the media. Most of United's major players had image rights deals to reduce their tax burden. Mancini was paid by a company to reduce his tax in a similar way (not illegal). No one is looking at United's finances. The Glazers' shopping mall businesses are essentially shell companies but they have run up debts of £900m at United with no intention of paying them back until they sell up. They get a free pass everytime from the PL whose leader was vetted by United and Liverpool Directors before he got the job despite having no financial governance or legal experience.
 
Just a couple of points:
Breaking FFP rules does not necessarily constitute fraudulent accounting.
If they took a negative view on Etisalat and Image rights I believe this could exceed Everton's £20M breach for which they received a ten point deduction.

It wouldn't
 
What puzzled me about the Fordham deal is that they paid cash, not to receive an income stream, but to pay more cash out. We know now that this was funded by Abu Dhabi ultimately.

Well, that's weird. Is that what the 12 million payment ADUG>Fordham one year was about? I thought I understood about Fordham, but I guess then I have no idea at all :)
 
Just a couple of points:
Breaking FFP rules does not necessarily constitute fraudulent accounting.
If they took a negative view on Etisalat and Image rights I believe this could exceed Everton's £20M breach for which they received a ten point deduction.

In our circumstance we can only be charged for breaking FFP if they find us guilty of fraudulent accounting.

Our accounts have been ratified and passed FFP. We can only be found guilty of FFP failure if we have lied about the figures which would be fraudulent accounting.

The Etisalat contract was deemed perfectly fine by CAS, who gave their verdict on it anyway despite elements being time-barred. Can't see an independent commission overruling the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
 
Am I right in saying that the only thing that has brought this thread to life, is the Everton points deduction, and that nothing has changed with regards to the charges leveled against us?

And that no one actual knows about when any hearing is going to take place?

I understand that the Everton situation has sent some shockwaves throughout out fan base but it's been made clear the two situations are not comparable, with this in mind are we not going around in circles?
This thread has been going around in circles for about 3,160 pages now.
 

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