PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

So what is the outcome for the PL, if and when we are found not guilty?

Oh, we couldn't prove it, they are probably guilty, oops, carry on as normal chaps
And the implications of probably hundreds of jobs for the local community that would go down the toilet , that alone is an absolute disgrace , for a jumped up organisation to implement hardship on a club with an extremely strong commitment to the local and wider community.
 
I’ve just listened again as the signal seemed to be breaking up first time. I agree Stefan did say “objective”. Jordan is a buffoon who knows a few big words but his opinions are worthless.
Stefans point about relegation, which flew over the heads of Jordan and White, was to emphasise the enormity of he allegations and therefore the fact that to succeed the EPL have a mammoth task in proving them ergo its highly unlikely they (EPL) can succeed.
Also what gets lost in the idiotic noise is that CAS significantly reduced (by 2/3 if memory serves) the amount of the non cooperation charge which clearly demonstrates that they had some sympathy with City’s reluctance to provide documents given the circumstances.
i only listened to TS because Stefan was on and will not pollute my ear holes again unless it’s to listen to them choking on humble pie when City are, I hope to goodness cleared.
Stefan demonstrated the merit of a knowledgable lawyer with experience of this type of case as opposed to the narcissistic rambling interruptions of the goon Jordan.
The only Humble Pie you will hear is "Live at Winterland " :-)
 
Fair to say @projectriver is a bit of a geezer.
Quite. well done him I say. Hope he’s still reading after some of the misplaced criticism. Try doing live tv and radio without any misplaced words. As I know it isn’t easy. He entered the lions den and ended up as the lion tamer. A brave move as he was actually onto a loser given closed minds on that particular talkSPORT show But landed some great points. Media always going to ignore “plane lands safely” report to focus on a “possible plane crash” every time, in this case feeding the red fans.
 
Maybe so, but he's got a legal background too, so I suppose he's used to the underhand tactics people try and use to derail the opposition. Maybe he was in lawyer mode, as much as we would have liked him to respond differently, he's trying to be super objective about this. I see the logic in that, without that he will be dismissed because of his links and who he supports but I don't think he was expecting them to do him so dirty and misrepresent his points by only taking the soundbites they like. They have little interest in objectivity as an organisation IMO.

While we are on the subject of objectivity. Simon was so desperate to pull Stefan up on something, that he corrected him by saying 'objective' and was comfortably smug with himself about it afterwards... Which is bad enough on it's own, it's petty and unnecessary when you know what they meant. He misspeaks himself a lot and he'd take it personally if someone did that to him. He'll even complain when someone interrupts him back... He has everything his way on that platform.

The thing is, having listened back to what Stefan said, I'm fairly certain he said "but someone that's objective" after all, it was Simon who misheard it because of how fast it was spoken.

Maybe it's just me though, what do you hear?:


Whopper either way.

Somebody thatsobjective is how it left his mouth

Quite clearly he says that's objective, but the way it came out it could be heard as being subjective purely because of the 's' at the end of thats!
 
Stefan did a longer version of this yesterday on an Arsenal podcast which you might enjoy, I watched it after he tweeted it out yesterday:



The Arsenal fan doesn't know enough to be able to bounce back with any informative/good questions but Stefan gives out a lot of information.

A excellent podcast and well worth a watch. My takeaway from it is the total incompetence of the Premier league, they seem hell bent on destroying the most popular league in the world over imo restrictive financial regulations. Relegation this season will be a complete nonsense.
 
It absolutely wasnt harder to win when forest won the EC , have a look at the games played and the amount of games played to reach a final.

The knock out stage of the champs league is infinitely harder to get through.

Have a look at villas run to the final! Even easier
Yeah but back in those days it was lose and ur done, these days u could concievably lose 3 games in the group stages and another 3 in the knockouts and still make the final, i mean we didnt lose a game so wed have been fine in both eras ;)
 
Little nugget in there that always seems to get missed, is that we topped up from £8 million each year (if these allegations are correct).

That would be the best, best value for money sponsorship for kit, academy campus, stadium name over the years in question in sports history.
Did we top up or did we just get a greater share of the £400 mil guaranteed over the 10 years quicker then a consistent £40 mil per year to move the club forward and get better value for the sponsorship? Unless the payment schedule is set and could not be altered so long as the total did not exceed £400 mil what's the problem here?

That seems to be fine and done by Arsenal with the Emirates deal as well it seems from another poster. Gave a sponsor the opportunity to get onboard a long term project at a value that reflected a fair deal for both parties based on objectives and sitting as was in 2009/2010 (top 8 EPL club, UEFA participants with greater ambitions).

Agree that when you look at what United's sponsors paid this period what a bargain!
 
Stefan was more certain of our likely defeating of the charges than he had been previously, I thought.
Note to Klopp: When we are cleared, if you say “It is a bad day for football” you will be banned from the Etihad and have your balls chopped off.
Rather, you should say: “Bollocks, City’s proven innocence means Pep will stay and that’s another five years without the title for us”
Karma.
 
Why are you surprised?? If not that comment, they would have found another way of writing a negative headline. But they can’t hide the fact that there are now chinks forming in the PL attitude & approach AND the comments by Stefan relating to the seriousness of the PL’s accusations are now starting to be aired (even if hidden in a lower paragraph)

Yes it's a ridiculous notion that so many respected and qualified people, over a ten year period, all lied and colluded to commit fraud. This is basically what they're implying. Not only that but all their legal experts who checked our books were so incompetent they missed it. The best thing the premier league could do would be to back out now as they could be royally fucked. Or better still tell the truth that the only reason they started this shitshow was because the Yanks and the redshirts begged them to do so.
 

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