PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[LangleyBlue1970]

The rumours, and they're only rumours, is a verdict by the end of next season.

Ah, just enough time to add a shit load of trophies to our haul, just to piss everyone off that little bit more when we get to keep them all.

 

[wahablue]

There is a very clear anomaly here and surprisingly or not, NO journalist has reported it. Although it has been touched on here.
A number of charges date back to 2009/10 - 2013 which precludes FFP introduced 2014 and the even later introduction of PSR.
So if the charges pre 2014 are of a financial matter then the issue is not of non compliance with any FFP rules but surely a criminal matter, fraud and the TAX authorities or Police should be investigating not the Premier League.
Think about that for a minute. Case dismissed.

 

[halfcenturyup]

And even quite a few Blue Mooners don`t understand this Colin.

Tbf, the alleged breaches affect the club's PSR position if they are proven, which is why the alleged breaches include not complying with the PL's PSR rules in the three years 2015-2018, I think. If they aren't proven, no problem.

 

[wahablue]

Must have missed the news item of the PL sacking numerous Auditors for 10 years of total incompetence regards MCFC accounts.And a question for our unbiased press but have they asked who actually signed the paper work asking Auditors to go back over their work 10 years previous ,just asking.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

My personal favourite in all this is the assertion that we have an unfair advantage in that we have expensive legal representation - Dame Dinenage - a Baroness no less, for services to the bleeding obvious and doing her job - and someone with form for condemning before a legal verdict, I think it was she, asked/intimated about whether is was fair we had expensive lawyers compared to "smaller clubs". So now premiership clubs can't afford decent legal advice and lawyers? Look at the transfer fees and salaries they pay - er I think they can. It appears, given the caution (for once from Masters - an inveterate gobshite) and the clear avoidance to anything with our case - that our lawyers are all over this and already earning their corn. How unfair of us to defend ourselves so well!! The Government would never think of using DLA Piper, Dentons, Addleshaw Goddard, Browne Jacobson, Burges Salmon, DAC Beachcroft etc etc and have a Legal Framework reserve of £430M to crush the little man.

 

[Dribble]

They may well do!
It's not unusual for an organisation to expose criminality and then pass their evidence to the police who then prosecute on the basis of the information provided.
No better example of that currently than the post office scandal!

The PL have claimed they have enough evidence to accuse us & hold a hearing, so if that's the case why aren't they passing their 'evidence' on to the relevant authorities now?

Moreover, our investigations been in the public domain for nearly 6 years for all to see & hear, so why haven't the authorities swooped on the Etihad yet?

 

[mac]

Prestwich_Blue said:
Our charges are nothing to do with the PL's Profit & Sustainability Rules. They are to do with wider PL Rules about reporting true and fair accounts and acting in good faith.
And even quite a few Blue Mooners don`t understand this Colin.

How can the Premier league charge someone for not acting in good faith when they cannot act in good faith either. Ffs

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

Opposition fans - We drink your tears still. we drank them when we won your trophies and now we drink them because you think we've cheated. When the verdict comes in we will drink even more.

Your piss is truly boiling isnt it :)
Literally City have ruined your lives :)

 

[yerwot?]

It's many City fans mind set these days, everything is a stitch up from the cup draws we don't get to the ones United do get. Referring decisions, order of premier league fixtures, commentary bias, media coverage bias, the list is literally endless.
The funny thing is that fans of opposing teams agree it's just that they think it's a stich up in our favour!

understandable, for many reasons, not confined to football and sport generally. Government, business, judicial anomalies, etc, things that affect populations, are proven to have agendas, why would football be different?
Apart from those privy to meetings, the public has to rely on what they read, the old "it must be true, it's in the papers", has still not gone away, despite the countless lies, plus, what's not reported is taken as evidence that it can't be true. The PO stitch-up just the latest case in point.
The carpet-bombing tactic of accusing City of 115 breaches could rebound on the prem, if many of them are proven to be baseless, it weakens their entire offensive, and if our legal bods forensicaly challenge each and every one of them, then the costs of the process could/would be in 8 figures, which definiely would cause a few arse-holes to twitch even for the FSG-backed prem. The "hateful eight" have painted themselves into a corner, in my humble opinion, a tame independent adjudicator their wild card.

 

[hammocity]

My personal favourite in all this is the assertion that we have an unfair advantage in that we have expensive legal representation - Dame Dinenage - a Baroness no less, for services to the bleeding obvious and doing her job - and someone with form for condemning before a legal verdict, I think it was she, asked/intimated about whether is was fair we had expensive lawyers compared to "smaller clubs". So now premiership clubs can't afford decent legal advice and lawyers? Look at the transfer fees and salaries they pay - er I think they can. It appears, given the caution (for once from Masters - an inveterate gobshite) and the clear avoidance to anything with our case - that our lawyers are all over this and already earning their corn. How unfair of us to defend ourselves so well!!

Dineage should surely be asking the questions just like her Dad used to do:

“How”

One for the FOC’s.