PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Didsbury Dave]

I consulted through tens and tens of different businesses -private and public sector- and helped buy and sell some. Every business entity I worked in looked to be imaginative with their finances to present best case. Some decisions/ interpretations/ wheezes led to interesting discussions with Auditors, Non Execs, Boards, Industry bodies, gvmt depts etc.
I would be willing to bet that every club in every Lge in England has done this and will continue to do it.
Nothing done was definitely illegal /criminal but some could certainly be said to push boundaries and financial legal definitions or interpretations.
It is what is done in business and football is a business.

That's exactly what goes on. It's called "tax planning" and is structuring your finances to minimise the tax impact. Thee's no doubt that every club in the premier league will have done something similar to ratify the accounts with FFP. It's sensible business practice.

 

[Kippax77]

I've just been out of the UK on holiday and before I went I took my away shirt and did something I wouldn't normally do. I had Rodrigo 16 added, the FIFA badge and the champions league badge. Not a fookin word, I even wore it in a bar when the rags played spurs. I'm quite happy to enter any 'debate' with some red shirted parrot squawking 115 over again. But no, most of it is polarised internet shithousery.
As for our club, I've said all along, I'm quite happy for them to roll with the punches and I trust them. When it's all concluded I'll been livid if they do not go after people with the utmost zeal.
I want the main protagonists sued into a f'king soup kitchen. I want lives and reputations, ruined. If needs be I want the premier league destroyed.

I once wanted a BMX for Christmas.
I ended up with a chopper

 

[nellyonthewing]

I am prefacing this post with the observation that I have deliberately kept away from this thread, and have only read the odd post now and again. Plus I have also purposely not read any further than headlines on News pages.
This is because I am at an age where I like to try to keep my blood pressure down as much as possible by not reading things that are going to get my exasperation and rage going!!

Therefore I am just going to ask one question: Do you as a BlueMoon poster/Manchester City supporter feel that City are innocent of all the charges or at least some of the charges?

I would hopefully get a straight yes or no answer as I am not even sure what charges have been brought. Sorry if I annoy some by not wanting to go deep, deep down into 165 or whatever charges. None of us as fans can truly know what the club are doing but do we think they are guilty?

Personally, through my blue tinted City loving glasses I wholeheartedly want to say no we are not guilty but I am realistic enough to know that the powers that be wouldn't open themselves to ridicule by bringing charges if they weren't satisfied that there is some substance. Plus I know how big business works, there are so many things that go on behind closed doors.


However whatever the outcome I will still state we are THE BEST TEAM IN THE LAND AND ALL THE WORLD. :-) CITY FOR EVER.

If it transpires we had 'bent the rules' a wee bit back in 2010 -13 it wouldn't bother me a jot. How else do you break into a rigged poker school without dumping a huge wad of cash on the table.
I sense if they succeed they will hit us with being un-cooperative - hardly The Sopranos is it.

 

[GaudinoMotors]

I've just been out of the UK on holiday and before I went I took my away shirt and did something I wouldn't normally do. I had Rodrigo 16 added, the FIFA badge and the champions league badge. Not a fookin word, I even wore it in a bar when the rags played spurs. I'm quite happy to enter any 'debate' with some red shirted parrot squawking 115 over again. But no, most of it is polarised internet shithousery.
As for our club, I've said all along, I'm quite happy for them to roll with the punches and I trust them. When it's all concluded I'll been livid if they do not go after people with the utmost zeal.
I want the main protagonists sued into a f'king soup kitchen. I want lives and reputations, ruined. If needs be I want the premier league destroyed.

I like the cut of yours.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Good. I’d like to think some posters are exaggerating a bit with how often they’re called cheats when out and about but it only takes the wrong one to be approached before it could turn nasty.

I go everywhere in my city baseball cap. Nobody has ever called me a cheat.

I have a bit of banter with a rag who’s the son in law of the owner of the chippy I go in.

I have a bit of banter with mates but if anyone steps over the line they get the sharp edge of my tongue mates or not.

 

[GOULDYBOBS]

The FFP rules are a farce so I don't care if we have broken them.

I would care if we cheated on the pitch. We haven't.

 

[cookster]

Liverpool have the media's ear. We don't. It's a simple as that.

Look at the linesman non-flag injuries we suffered... if that was utd or lfc the rules world have been changed by now, because its City nothing.


Listen guys, our rivals are not ever going to give up trolling us about it. Never. The best way, the only way to deal with them is to tell them their pain about this is wonderful. It's tearing their life apart and it makes you even more happy.

But don't EVER engage with their arguments, just GLOAT at their pain, it shuts them up.

Agree regarding the media. However, I think it's fair to say LFC have done much more directly with UEFA than us.

 

[cookster]

You're not going to like this but the two cases aren't really comparable are they?

Not on the ticketing issues but very similar on delays and last of transport and infrastructure to support such a major event.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Good. I’d like to think some posters are exaggerating a bit with how often they’re called cheats when out and about but it only takes the wrong one to be approached before it could turn nasty.

I’ve never been called a cheat when I’m out and about, but I’m hard as fuck.

 

[Phil1]

I’ve never been called a cheat when I’m out and about, but I’m hard as fuck.

Stop taking those blue pills before doing the weekly shop!! :-)