PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[bluenova]

With regards to the Liverpool hacking scandal, I can't see anything happening because of the settlement. I do think it could be about creating precedence though.

Another thing to consider is sporting sanctions, following Evertons charges, City may now feel that Liverpool gained a sporting benefit, we might have had a file on Van Dijk and they accessed it and decided to buy him. Went on to win the league and champions league. Therefore a sporting sanction may be more appropriate.

So are we looking at a scenario of Liverpool's 2020 title being stripped, along with Chelsea's 2014/15 title and their Champions League win.

Whoever was runner up in those years will be happy.

 

[hammocity]

I personally have a lot more confidence in a group of KC's being honest and transparent than I do an independent regulator overseen by the government considering recent government scandals etc

We, (City as a club) are in favour of the Independent Regulator, it’s the other wankers that don’t want transparency, they want the stays quo of their influence over the PL to remain.

 

[slbsn]

The hacking story is such a non story. It is super historic, we ourselves settled for pennies, it went nowhere. It is done and dusted.

 

[HelloCity]

The hacking story is such a non story. It is super historic, we ourselves settled for pennies, it went nowhere. It is done and dusted.

It’s younger than some of our charges isn’t it?

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Amazing, we think it and it happens. Its like dreams come true in here.

 

[wolviedinho]

We should have gone to the police. It was a blatant criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.

And it didn't stop with the settlement. They carried on spying on us for a few years. Tolmie knows this as well.

It’s no wonder they started buying better players over the last 7/8 seasons. Before the hack the bought in players like Cisse, diouf and salif diao. After the hacking they found Salah, Firmino, van dyk etc.

They have gained an unfair sporting advantage against us just like Arsenal and Arteta.

Sneaky , moneyball robbing twats.

 

[Mon Autre]

TBH City taking a payment from Liverpool in exchange for not pursuing the hacking complaint doesn't make me feel any better about anything. It just makes City complicit in a corrupt system. Clubs are taking a mutually assured destruction approach and sitting on evidence of wrongdoing rather than trying to clean up their act. Basically, elite football stinks and all elite clubs, not just City, are part of it.

 

[wolviedinho]

I've read so many comments from journalists, suggesting that City are all over them as soon as anything controversial or negative is written. But I don't think it's that simple.

The media are used to dealing with politicians and businesses complaining about what they write, and they've spent decades working out how to stay just the right side of the line. Quite rightly, they're also protected to some extent, because it's important that the press can uncover dodgy activity, and that means being able to publish even when there's legal pressure not to.

Just look at the Michelle Mone PPE scandal. That's a Tory scandal, involving hundreds of millions of pounds of Government money spent during Covid, the biggest crisis the country has faced in decades. The media continued to write about it, despite the many warning letters from lawyers, which contained point blank refusals that she or her husband had any involvement at all. Yet, finally the story has started to crack, and they've admitted involvement.

It's annoying for City fans, but there are far more important things going on in the world than our club's wranglings with the Premier League.

Is there? I don’t care about this Mone person. The country is full of corrupt people and the country is governed by corrupt people.

City being persecuted is more my concern. Fuck the rest.

 

[Paladin]

"Whataboutery" is not going to win this case.

Whataboutery has a part to play. It's another word for precedent. All lawyers look for precedents that could be applied in order to favour their clients.

 

[Ric]

The PL can't have it both ways. They can't investigate us for offences in 2009, and claim the Liverpool case of 2013/14 is time barred.

That’s not a PL decision, that’s just English Law I think. Time barred only doesn’t apply if there has been concealment, which is what the PL allege against us. That’s not the case the hacking, so presumably that would be timebarred.