PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Sk@mcfc]

Stefan Owned that twat Jordan to the point he was actually agreeing with him
You just knew that talk shite were going to run the relegation story though

 

[kaz7]

Well I agree and so did Stephan, simply because we won't be found guilty.

I agree we wont be found guilty , as colin says the burden of proof is just too high in this case , a fine for non complience is all we will get imo

 

[grim up north]

I listen to it live and although Stephan was very good I do believe he needed to choose his words better, especially knowing how that station would twist everything.

When explaining the sheer scale of what would be a major fraud case, he said the PL would struggle to prove it. I believe he should have stressed more that its unbelievable that such a giant fraud could be possible without a whistle-blower or easy evidence being found after 6 years of looking.

For me it gave Jordan the ongoing chance to say, we are guilty but the PL just weren't clever enough to prove it.

Just my take.

He tried but was interrupted at every opportunity by those 2 idiots

 

[Jung the foreman]

If they gave us a 50 points deduction, we would still not be relegated.

 

[mancboy]

Wow! Just listened to Stefan B on Talkshite. Absolutely brilliant! Nailed it. Loved seeing Simon Jordan out of his depth. Superb!

simon jordan is out of his depth in a paddling pool

 

[Bez]

When City get cleared, Masters will be sacked by the red cartel. Assuming Masters is still there at that point in the future.

 

[deano ou812]

We can't be 'relegated' as such. The PL and EFL are separate bodies.

The PL has the power of expulsion, at the very worst, meaning a club expelled from the PL would have to apply to join the EFL. The PL can't arbitrarily place us into the Championship.

They could potentially deduct so many points that we could face relegation but the burden of proof and evidence required to inflict that would probably be so high as to be completely unachievable.

Unfortunately your last two sentences also referenced by Stefan earlier on talksport isn’t going to sit too well with the English media..

 

[Gundoggin]

Just watched it intensely.
Basically the PL are way out of there depth here even bell end Jordan agreed . They literally have to find the rulers of Abu Dhabi guilty of fraud through a poxy tribunal, good luck with that one ! The ramifications and political fall out would be off the scale so basically there isn’t a chance it will happen . Excellently explained by Stefan top job !

 

[waspish]

Question to Jordon and all those who wish to see our demise. How the fuck on earth can someone be guilty when it's not been proven. Jordon must be well in with someone if he has proof. In his dreams the wanker and ALL those that wish to follow the head sheep.

Jordan thinks because our owner is part of royalty in a very rich country his influence on everyone will make all the people who sponsor us and accountants firms Lie for him? That's what we dealing with conspiracy minded bell end..

 

[nmc]

I know from my club contacts that the media strategy was to court certain journalists who the club thought were 'opinion formers'. Serious journalists who could write using a more sophisticated medium than a crayon. So probably people like (I'm guessing) Martin Samuel, Henry Winter, Martyn Ziegler, David Conn, Rory Smith, etc. I do know Nick Harris was one of that group. I talked to him and passed on stuff I knew, which the club seemingly had no issue with (I'd have certainly known if they had).

They shared information with them, the intention being that we'd get a more sympathetic and objective hearing in the media, rather than the shite spouted by the red-tops, which we knew we couldn't influence. But even that group of journalists are driven by clicks, and objective articles about City don't generate clicks. Oli Kay, who was at The Times, told me that so I've had it first hand.

But it's no secret that we accelerated investment in the squad before the FFP door was slammed shut in our face. Then, in 2012/13, facing FFP failure, we did as much as we could to bring forward income. We sold the image rights to Fordham, we called off sponsorship revenue early. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with what we did by the way. If Etihad contracted to paying £600m over 10 years, we may have drawn down £300m in the first 3 years, say. That's not uncommon either. I seem to recall united front-loading either their Team Viewer or kit deal, so they got a big payment up-front. Nothing wrong with that. The accelerated investment is all public knowledge - Khaldoon openly said it - so Harris claiming it as a secret he'd been told as part of some inner-circle is complete nonsense.

At some point though, Harris's attitude changed dramatically. I know his wife had a brain tumour (and she died sadly about a year ago), they had two young girls and his mental heath suffered quite badly. That's a terrible thing to happen in anyone's book. But even knowing all this, the club were very puzzled about his 180 degree turn. His hatred of us is seemingly pathological.

Delaney was the same to a large degree. Up to us winning the league at Brighton in 2019 he was OK. By the time we'd beaten Watford at Wembley, just one week later, he'd turned.

It’s interesting that everything changed with a few journalists after we won the league title @ Brighton. Many in the media that season had jumped on the Klopp/Anfield /Fenway Sports bandwagon and there was a strong belief that Liverpool would finally win a title… we went on an unbelievable run (as did they) and just sneaked it…. That win put an awful lot of noses out of joint and is at the heart of Liverpool’s problem with City. Liverpool think this should have been their era and they think they should have landed a huge haul of trophies. And if it hadn’t been for City and Pep they would have done - and they really can’t take it… Pep has outperformed Klopp, our squad has outperformed theirs and whenever they have put us under pressure we have prevailed.