PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Ashton Moss Messi]

Owned by family trust

Inheritance taxes dodge perhaps?
Not an expert or even close to it but I understand that means at least halving inheritance taxes.
He does live ex-pat in The Bahamas but maybe the family have some genuine allegiance to the UK and would be liable.
But above all, I'm sure he will be acting within the law and is totally above board and a fine gentleman in the view of the EPL.

 

[silva_is_gold]

Just on the subject of City fans being easy to manipulate. I don't think the reactions some people are having is surprising at all. It would be worse if Liverpool or United fans had to put up with the same every week. It's almost like they are attempting to subject City fans to the press equivalent of Chinese Water Torture(the one with the constant drip on the forehead).

They literally write headlines to bait City fans these days:

The latest one from talkSport earlier today courtesy of Simon Jordan:

'Simon Jordan Issues Stern WARNING To Manchester City Fans Amidst 115 FFP Charges! '

I'm sure that's crossing some sort of line, with how they've directly addressed the fanbase there. It's even more blatant than usual. Perhaps part of the reason, is Simon's getting his own back, after City fans tore him to shreds, over the Stefan interview. He's petty like that.

Simon Jordan just likes the sound of his own voice, no fooker else does lol
It was like the pupil teaching the teacher with stefan v Jordan,
Stefan cool as a cucumber in his little school blazer & the teacher getting annoyed coz he has no comebacks apart from mutterings under his breath, thinking to himself,
I'm being schooled here lmao
Fook Jordan & the rest!
I trust in our club!
If the PL had anything significant on us, we'd be fooked by now!
Stay positive blues & fook the haters :)

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Simon Jordan just likes the sound of his own voice, no fooker else does lol
It was like the pupil teaching the teacher with stefan v Jordan,
Stefan cool as a cucumber in his little school blazer & the teacher getting annoyed coz he has no comebacks apart from mutterings under his breath, thinking to himself,
I'm being schooled here lmao
Fook Jordan & the rest!
I trust in our club!
If the PL had anything significant on us, we'd be fooked by now!
Stay positive blues & fook the haters :)

Well said mate

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Aww, he's just doing his job....

In all seriousness though, Simon Jordan(and his team, such as, whoever is choosing the video titles) is not just doing his job, he's being personal and extra with it. Go look at his Chelsea, Newcastle, Everton debates and so on, who've had similar stories and you'll see there's a massively disproportionate lack of balance in how he approaches City.

Nobody needs to believe a word he's saying, take everything with a pinch of salt, bashing City must be making them money, we can agree on all that... But at the same time, fuck him, he deserves every bit of flack he gets. It's also good fun ripping him to shreds.

Maybe it's just me who sees it and he's nowhere near as bad as him yet but he seems to at least be veering off in the direction of Nick Harris level of personal, when it comes to City.

He'll even gaslight the audience/comment section, if they suggest he has agendas. Dropping in comments like:

'We don't have agendas on this show, that's silly',
or: 'I remember City at Maine Road blah blah, so it's not that I have it in for City',
or: 'I'm the same with Eddie Hearn as I am with Uncle Frank, blah blah blah'.

What does he think, that we'll all go: 'oh well, if he's saying that, then we must have him wrong'? Rather than, deduce that he's full of shit and shameless with it. :)

I think Jordan is toxic as far as City are concerned. He is close to Levy and Parry and they are obviously feeding him lines. He also knows there is money to be made from peddlling an anti-City agenda. There are a lot of LFC and MUFC fans out there.

 

[bluwes]

I thou Who was on first..love it

 

[meltonblue]

Agree with most of that but my gut feeling is the PL has virtually no evidence. If they had a smoking gun they would have sanctioned us by now. If they had anything significant it would have leaked out to their pals in the media. I believe the so-called investigation is just another attempt to smear City. When you see how weak Richard Masters is in public it is easy to see how he could be manipulated by devious powerful people. The end game for the PL was always about damaging City to keep LFC, MUFC, Spurs, and Arsenal Directors happy.

I’ve always assumed their evidence is just the further leaked emails that came out after the CAS judgment and we haven’t responded to them fully, hence the charges and the non compliance. Once it gets to the IC, I’m assuming we’ll then provide further evidence like we did at CAS.

It’s difficult to know whether the Pl were right to take it to the next step without knowing how we responded to them and what our evidence we provided for it was. We’ll only know that when we get the judgment.

 

[silva_is_gold]

simon jordan is a ****, but he's only doing his job,
which is to attract a listening audience to the radio station he works for.

he's also possibly being financially encouraged to throw shit at us by people outwith the radio station.

he's a snide fucker who loves winding people up.
why are blues letting him wind them up?
that's what he wants.
fuck's sake, just laugh at the tosser.



in advance of the replies along the lines of...
"but fans of other clubs believe his bullshit"
and
"city should sue him, city should sue everyone,
et cetera"

why do you care what other people think?
and
our owners do things quietly, not in public.
what comes round goes round.
the long game is far more successful than the kneejerk approach.


chill out, brothers and sisters.
channel your energy into to something more positive than hating idiots.

we've come so far, don't let the fuckers get under your skin.
better to laugh at their patheticness and enjoy your days following the mighty blues.

Ur name says it all :) lol 100% with ye on this

 

[FrankSwift1]

I know I shouldn't do this as there is a million better ways to spend my precious time BUT I stupidly replied to Nick Harris tweet and am discussing the appointment of judges at CAS. They are convinced we picked two. Has anyone got the link to or screenshot of how they are picked?

This poont is one of the most annoying to me as a quick sense check would obviously lead to anyone with that opionon to think, that doesn't make sense. Why would Uefa agree to an abratation where their opponent gets to pick two judges effectively meaning they can never win a case.

Last check - I am correct thay it was on one pick each and then both parties agree on the chairman?

Thanks in advance

 

[Kirkstall Blue]

Sky sports
Ceferin thinks he was right about City here is what Liam thinks and I agree bring it on x

 

[Metalartin]

I know I shouldn't do this as there is a million better ways to spend my precious time BUT I stupidly replied to Nick Harris tweet and am discussing the appointment of judges at CAS. They are convinced we picked two. Has anyone got the link to or screenshot of how they are picked?

This poont is one of the most annoying to me as a quick sense check would obviously lead to anyone with that opionon to think, that doesn't make sense. Why would Uefa agree to an abratation where their opponent gets to pick two judges effectively meaning they can never win a case.

Last check - I am correct thay it was on one pick each and then both parties agree on the chairman?

Thanks in advance

If I remember right, UEFA picked one, City picked one, then City suggested the 3rd and UEFA agreed it was a good choice. If they couldn't have agreed themselves, on the 3rd judge, CAS would have stepped in and chosen someone for them. So, Nick needs to think about that properly, before making anything of it.