PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[johnnytapia]

The CAS ruling included a logical contradiction that probably only lawyers would understand. The court went to pains to explain why the leaked/stolen emails were admissible. However it went on to say the emails were only indicative of possible payments, in some cases purely internal and speculative exchanges. The ruling stated that the actual events ie the transaction based evidence superseded the emails. So although admissible the emails became completly irrelevant, and that's why UEFA lost.
Without doubt the majority 2-1 outcome was borderline insanity. The 2 were saying there's NO evidence of wrong doing so City must win, but the 1 still said guilty. The ruling did NOT explain why he voted that way. Once again, to the lay person, another contradiction.

CAS was only ever going to be a 2-1 (or 1-2) verdict, given who was casting the votes.

 

[give it to gordon]

But remember they will also have lawyers who are fairly confident otherwise the charges wouldn’t be issued
Make no mistake about it this is our biggest ever battle in many a year
Hopefully we have irrefutable evidence surely our owner wouldn’t say that if he wasn’t confident of a victory
Otherwise I’m guessing if we thought we would be found guilty we would be trying to negotiate a deal

Lawyers advise you. If those lawyers said ' yea go ahead and charge City it doesnt how many mistakes are in the charge sheet' . I would guess the pl have shit lawyers lol

 

[KS55]

The CAS ruling included a logical contradiction that probably only lawyers would understand. The court went to pains to explain why the leaked/stolen emails were admissible. However it went on to say the emails were only indicative of possible payments, in some cases purely internal and speculative exchanges. The ruling stated that the actual events ie the transaction based evidence superseded the emails. So although admissible the emails became completly irrelevant, and that's why UEFA lost.
Without doubt the majority 2-1 outcome was borderline insanity. The 2 were saying there's NO evidence of wrong doing so City must win, but the 1 still said guilty. The ruling did NOT explain why he voted that way. Once again, to the lay person, another contradiction.

It is a strange tradition at CAS that if two of the panel agree on a verdict, the third member does not vote against the body that nominated him. In our case that meant that the German judge voted in favour of UEFA in every case.
What happened afterwards was very telling. A junior member of the German judge’s chambers wrote an article insisting that we were guilty but, he said, he did not consult the judge and his view was COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT. Oh, Right.
Bayern, Der Speigel et al all sticking together.
Deutschland uber allies.

 

[Revolver]

At least 2 more years of this nonsense. Yet more time for the cartels lackeys in the MSM and on line to have their 5 mins of fame. All because an owner invested in his business. Whilst the hackers, the debt ridden clubs etc get a free pass.

No thought for what us City fans are putting up with. This would not happen with the teams in red.

Whilst Martin Samuel aside I wouldn’t expect the spineless MSM to call out this I think the clubs PR approach is appalling.

Yes I know it’s a legal matter but that doesn’t stop others commentating . Yes I know it could be argued they all that matters is what happens in the courts so let’s hope it’s fair or our lawyers don’t mess up.

I don’t claim to have the answers but do our owners have any idea of how annoying this is. How frustrating it is to listen and read lies about club and know the owners are giving idiots a free pass. Yes we have to co exist with clubs but surely City could do something. No
good making a stance after a verdict has been made ( by an Arsenal season ticket holder? Hopefully not)

Nothing I can do and it’s best to ignore it somehow but this is unacceptable.

 

[KS55]

Lawyers advise you. If those lawyers said ' yea go ahead and charge City it doesnt how many mistakes are in the charge sheet' . I would guess the pl have shit lawyers lol

The PL don’t have shit lawyers; the lawyers have shit clients.

 

[Paladin]

CAS was only ever going to be a 2-1 (or 1-2) verdict, given who was casting the votes.

Yeah. I'm not sure Tebas was the right person for the panel, given his known opposition to City.

 

[Gordyola]

Is there any truth in the rumour that the red shirts are helping the premier league with the legal costs?

I doubt it but if its true then it will show collusion which will play right into the Lord's hand

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

But why not this process is taking far to long and idiots keep saying we should produce the evidence

We would be doing precisely what we accused UEFA of doing. It would prejudice the process and undermine our own legal case. We have to wait.

 

[Gordyola]

Is there no way City can do a sit down interview with Khaldoon and call the Premier League out and explain to the idiots how serious these charges are and how everything has been signed off and the sponsors have done nothing wrong. Surely sponsors are annoyed at what’s going on. Surely deep down the journalists reporting all this know the actual facts like Etihad not related party and know that it’s just mad to accuse the people at city in directly of fraud

He has already said he will have his say afterwards, in the meanwhile he will stay stum, the lawyers are his mouth piece for now and a very expensive one

 

[give it to gordon]

The PL don’t have shit lawyers; the lawyers have shit clients.

I guess than that the pl released the charge sheet against the advice of their lawyers. Surely the lawyers would have gone through the charges and made sure it was all correct ?