PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[KS55]

There is, I took screenshots as I was reading it to show I was on section K, rule 20:




And it’s also in the player remuneration section of the PL’s statement, so it’s definitely this.

But what was the rule at the relevant time?
We binned the image rights arrangement pdq after the revenue said it was illegal.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

FFS, I knew someone should have just popped over to Asda and bought yaya that cake.

 

[TB369]

Yeah for illegal payments and stuff, this seems like one of the ways where you can actually prove things...Do you know source on the athletic for this mate?

I don't, and I would never buy their shite to find out.

 

[mattyb]

If all they have are the de spiegel articles as evidence, they’re fucked in a UK court as I’m pretty certain hacked evidence can’t be used

It can be in UK courts, the US is different.

I can’t believe there are City fans on here who genuinely believe that we haven’t massaged the books over the years.

All business do it, clever accounting and such to avoid taxes etc, but sport seems to have different repercussions.

City will ride the storm, get it tangled up in the courts, and drag it out for as long as possible in my opinion.

 

[itsnevereasy]

Yaya

 

[StillBluessinceHydeRoad]

There are plenty of companies who had their accounts signed off by one of the big 4 accountancy firms but were 'at it'. Enron springs to mind.

My knowledge and understanding of the Enron scandal have become even vaguer over the years but from memory Enron was a very big American corporation which began to make sizeable losses and whose executives began to unload shares while the price was still high. Someone from within the company (Sharon someone?) exposed what was going on and it ended in bankruptcy and prison sentences. This certainly suggests a failure on the part of the regulatory authorities but the regulatory authorities are not involved and the difference in scale with City is massive, so that I cannot see why our owners would need to fiddle the books of what is a minor commercial enterprise. And our books have been inspected under a microscope not by one set of auditors but by umpteen. It seems that the rewards are paltry compared to the risks run. These are men who sign off a $60 billion deal to redevelop Dubai waterfront but are prepared to risk gaol for a few million for a football club?

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

If that's true were fucked

They would still have to have firm evidence , heresay surely doesn't count in cases of fraud which is effectively what we have been accused of?

Secondly in no way would the club would release that statement to any journalist. Its like admitting guilt before a hearing? Totally made up quote by the rag athletic.

 

[Maly]

Christ on a bike this could go bigger than Wagatha Christie :) my money is still on Gary Cook

Nah, heard an interview with him recently & he has a lot of love for the club

 

[paulchapo]

Millner probably, or Ya Ya. I don't see anybody with an axe to grind otherwise, we've treated players very well.

They have to.prove any accusations.

 

[mexico1970]

Yaya

He's **** enough.