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PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules
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It's all a bit mad!But the PL keep changing the rules without any agreement with the clubs. The Everton sanction criteria was made up by Masters. This is a farce.
I don't really know anything of the case but Docking points from this season for "offences" from previous seasons makes no sense at all.
And Docking points from a League table makes a complete mockery of the whole season anyway.
It doesn't just punish Everton but benefits half a dozen teams at the bottom of the League scrapping to avoid relegation, but makes no difference at all to the Top half teams.
The integrity of the League is shot to pieces with this docking points nonsense.
If guilty fine, but come up with a punishment that effects the guilty team only.
Come the end of the season Everton may be in a position where they have to win games to stay up, whereas without the sanction they would be safe.
I'm sure the teams they are playing against won't be too happy if they also need the points!
Masters and the PL have completely fucked up and to me this looks like some botched attempt to try and severely sanction City and Chelsea who at this point have not been found guilty!
BringBackSwales
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How does that work then?The hearing will be fair what won’t be is if we get found guilty with a probable draconian sentence if that happens KAM will go nuclear might be fun but the end of the PL as we know it
nmc
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Superb article by the only intelligent and unbiased journalist in the country.
I think it makes a difference that Martin Samuel is a Hammer - he tells it as he sees it. Too many journalists are supporters of one of the Sky 4 and allow this to blind them to reality.
Prestwich_Blue
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It's looking more and more like the legal equivalent of the Charge of the Light Brigade.‘Farce’ is the optimal word. The more that comes out on this, the worse it looks on the PL.
nmc
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This bit from that Martin Samuel article is interesting...sorry if it has already been mentioned/discussed
"Jermain Defoe’s transfer from Tottenham to Portsmouth in 2008 is now being reinvestigated over the alleged use of an illegal agent.
That carried a points deduction when Luton Town did it but, at the time, the FA did not follow through on Defoe. In 2009-10, when the investigation was taking place, Tottenham finished three points above Manchester City to qualify for the Champions League. Can it now be argued that had Tottenham been deducted points, then City would have been in the Champions League a year earlier, their balance sheet might have looked different — Tottenham got to the quarter-finals — and they might not be facing so many charges? How far do we want to go back?"
Maybe we could bring a case for compensation against Spuds ?
I agree so why would they pursue it so vigorously with an expensive team of lawyers knowing full well they will have to try and prove fraud.This comment was made by Soriano in the FT during the uefa case.
It can easily apply to the league:
“The owner has not put money in this club that has not been properly declared,” said Mr Soriano. “We are a sustainable football club, we are profitable, we don’t have debt, our accounts have been scrutinised many times by auditors, by regulators, by investors and this is perfectly clear.”
Anyone doubting the club just needs to read what Soriano, Khaldoon said at the time. The case now with the league is pretty much the same…illegal owner funding!
There is no leak nor smoking gun. The financials can’t be interpreted any other way but correct and accurate.
It’s going to be a beautiful day/week/month when the case falls apart and the media is foaming at the mouth. Might need to book a holiday once the all clear comes in.
I'm beginning to think this is now sabotage of the PL by the cartel, it's the only way to achieve what they want a ESL.
More like Michael Caine in "Zulu"It's looking more and more like the legal equivalent of the Charge of the Light Brigade
And the chair person is a self confessed rag.Is he not the bloke vetted by and considered acceptable to the rags and dippers? That tells us all we need to know.