PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

give it to gordon said:
The pl must have significant evidence to charge us.

The pl have found that City broke 115 rules hence the charges or I am missing something ?
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Any evidence that would support their allegations wouldn't be in the club's accounts anyway. Almost all of it would be between ADUG/ Newton and Al Jazeera, Etisalat, Etihad, Fordham and the rest. I doubt very much the club has been passing on financial information from those companies i) because they think they don't have to and ii) to control the flow, and the timing of the flow, of information from those companies (you start giving the PL information, they will ask for more).

So, I think the PL had no option but to charge everything and let the club present their external evidence to the panel, much the same as happened with UEFA/ CAS.
 
The thing I find hard to except is why only City. The fact that we are the only club with a 4 year investigation or more going on. Surely for the pl to be seen as honest and above board all pl clubs should be investigated to the same depth. If not than its clearly a witchhunt.
 
evidence is irrelevant in this case, it was never about right or wrong it was purely a fishing expedition put in place by the pl at the behest of its favourite clubs to show that they could govern themselves and didnt need an independent regulator, all they sought to do was reputational damage to the club to mitigate the fact that they couldnt do things as well as us, they couldnt have an upstart club like us overtake them by being just purely well run and doing things the right way, nah couldnt have that so they had to make it look like we were the bad guys to mitigate their own failings, its a tale as old as time in some respects but much worse these days, it is the go to these days that instead of looking at your own failings its so much easier to blame someone else.
 
give it to gordon said:
Why would the pl risk their reputation and their brand in going after City being cleared by CAS ?

Personally I believe City are 100% innocent but for the life of me cant understand why the pl would risk coming after City

Reading what's going on with other clubs and possible failing of the ffp soon all clubs will be under a 4 year investigation, starting with rags, arsenal, Chelsea, forest, etc.

The pl will run out of money having to employ all these financial experts and lawyers
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It's amazing what people will do to cover their own backs. Who would have thought that the Post Office would launch a witchunt against a group of innocent postmasters to cover up flaws in their systems. Never underestimate how stupid some people can behave when put under pressure. The PL is facing an existential threat to its role as regulator and some people are going to lose highly-paid jobs. They want to be seen to be doing something. Why do you think we are suddenly seeing FFP action taken against clubs like Everton, Forest, and apparently even United when nothing has happened over the last ten years?
 
give it to gordon said:
The thing I find hard to except is why only City. The fact that we are the only club with a 4 year investigation or more going on. Surely for the pl to be seen as honest and above board all pl clubs should be investigated to the same depth. If not than its clearly a witchhunt.
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Those hacked emails started it all of and we won at cas but the red shite clubs from that cas case thought we were hiding something so premier clubs got together and told the premier to investigate us..
 
waspish said:
Those hacked emails started it all of and we won at cas but the red shite clubs from that cas case thought we were hiding something so premier clubs got together and told the premier to investigate us..
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I think all this is a little unfair on the PL. I can't blame them for starting an investigation to get to the truth after the leaks (CAS said UEFA had no option but to investigate as well) and, once started, it has to be carried through to the end. You can't just drop it halfway through. Where I am critical is that they should have waited until the UEFA/ CAS issue was finished and then taken that into account in determining the scope of the investigation. That would have been much more sensible, imho.
 
halfcenturyup said:
I think all this is a little unfair on the PL. I can't blame them for starting an investigation to get to the truth after the leaks (CAS said UEFA had no option but to investigate as well) and, once started, it has to be carried through to the end. You can't just drop it halfway through. Where I am critical is that they should have waited until the UEFA/ CAS issue was finished and then taken that into account in determining the scope of the investigation. That would have been much more sensible, imho.
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It ended at cas but premier clubs started the new Investigation not the premier
 
halfcenturyup said:
I think all this is a little unfair on the PL. I can't blame them for starting an investigation to get to the truth after the leaks (CAS said UEFA had no option but to investigate as well) and, once started, it has to be carried through to the end. You can't just drop it halfway through. Where I am critical is that they should have waited until the UEFA/ CAS issue was finished and then taken that into account in determining the scope of the investigation. That would have been much more sensible, imho.
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That's the point though, isn't it? The leaked emails were the only evidence. Why start the investigation when UEFA had already done so, unless undue pressure was being put on them from the cartel?
 
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