PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Eevry time I hear this phrase "go nuclear" I am reminded of a meeting I went to with my partner about 20 years ago. We were in a serious legal dispute with some guys who were trying to take control of the shares of our company. We were in this meeting with a solicitor at Eversheds, a serious big hitter, and were talking about something like if they decided to withdraw cash without our consent or similar.

Anyway my partner confidently stated "If they do that we'll throw the book at them" and this solictor just casually but pointedly asked "What book?". She had no response.

I think this "go nuclear" phrase is the same: baseless bluster. There is no "nuclear".

I'm with you. It's cobblers. And if we did have a 'nuclear' button, we'd have surely pressed it long ago in respect of this particular limping dog of a process....

 

[ken tali]

If you haven’t read it lately it’s exactly the same news from the last time you read it

So it has come up only because of Evertons punishment?Have to hope that all is good and remains so.

 

[Kippax77]

Manchester United fined €300,000 by Uefa for financial fair play breaches

Manchester United have been fined €300,000 (£257,000) by Uefa for financial fair play breaches over a four-year period between 2019 and 2022

www.theguardian.com

Liverpool expected to escape fine for breaching FFP

Uefa accept Liverpool's argument that costs of redeveloping Anfield and abandoned Stanley Park plan are mitigating circumstances, though Hull City are not so lucky

www.telegraph.co.uk

Everton deducted 10 points by Premier League and face compensation bill

Everton have been docked 10 Premier League points, dropping them to second bottom, and could now have to pay compensation to Leeds, Leicester, Burnley and Southampton

www.theguardian.com

Anybody spot the difference?

Is the answer blue?

 

[eastmanc]

The Pl allowed for some Covid related adjustments in 2022 which meant that Utd met the PL ffp requirements. Lucky that isn't it. Utd can always rely on a helping hand from the PL.

I understand that but they still went over the £105 million in three years by some margin.

 

[Mcfc1.9.8.0]

So it has come up only because of Evertons punishment?Have to hope that all is good and remains so.

Yes it’s only because they got a deduction everyone is mentioning city. I 100% believe if Everton had have got off Scott free it would have been all Everton news this week and not a peep of how city might get off

 

[Bodicoteblue]

Haven´t read the news lately about our case and not really familiar with citys charges.Whats the percentage that we get hit by points deduction or something even worse?

According to the media, it’s 100% that the heavens will open and mighty thunderbolts will rain down upon the etihad, followed by a plague of locusts and frogs, and the stain upon all that is decent, that is City, will be sucked into a gaping hole which will open and they will be swallowed by satan himself and will never be seen again.
Well, it’s something like that anyway.

 

[MCFC1993]

I understand that but they still went over the £105 million in three years by some margin.

I think the rules with covid gave you a £70m extra for that season.

 

[eastmanc]

I think the rules with covid gave you a £70m extra for that season.

But Everton's transgression was in the covid years or am I missing something. Just seems unbelievably unfair.

 

[Brendan110_0]

United failed UEFA FFP but have not been charged by the PL yet. I don't think any of the others have failed UEFA FFP, for various reasons including falling out of UEFA competitions for certain years.

Liverpool failed, Leicester failed. Doesn't matter if they qualified or not, still breaks the PL FFP rules for some reason with City? but not others.

 

[Chi-town blues]

With my conspiracy hat on, I have always suspected that a big part of this was repetitional damage, but then agiaim it’s a bloody expensive way to go about it, it must be costing the PL millions in legal fees, I thought the league itself wasn’t particularly wealthy but who knows

Post covid pl revenue has been growing like 2020-21 by 12% and 2023 about 8% . Is there any annual audit ? how are they managing to pay for their legal fees ?