PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[eyalluvitt]

City 1 PL 0

After an 8 month VAR review

 

[silva_is_gold]

City 1 PL 0

What a signing :-)

 

[Sheikh rattle and roll]

yes ,thats my feeling they are the main drivers, my guess is if jim radcliff was at utd when all this kicked of he would have called the utd dogs off, only a hunch.

What because he couldn’t afford it the scruffy RB

 

[Centurions]

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story..... :-)

You are Richard Masters and I claim my £5...

 

[KS55]

What because he couldn’t afford it the scruffy RB

He has a good business relationship with Khaldoon. Summat to do with filthy British oil.

 

[mexico1970]

Can Everton and Forest sue them?

 

[Kompany & co]

Can Everton and Forest sue them?

My first thought also.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Can Everton and Forest sue them?

For what?

 

[mexico1970]

For what?

For everything?

:)

 

[Kompany & co]

For what?

For charging them using null and void rules.

 

[moomba]

Can Everton and Forest sue them?

No idea but I hope so (even though we'll foot 1/20th of the bill).

 

[halfcenturyup]

For charging them using null and void rules.

They weren't charged under the APT rules......

 

[moomba]

They weren't charged under the APT rules......

If they had a deal delayed, reduced or rejected due to APT deals that might have caused them to fail PSR.

 

[Mike S]

You are Richard Masters and I claim my £5...

10/10 Ha ha :-)

 

[jaiguruKun]

If they had a deal delayed, reduced or rejected due to APT deals that might have caused them to fail PSR.

And what about all the other clubs that only passed PSR due to 0% interest shareholder loans that should have been excluded?

 

[birchwoodgingerste]

And what about all the other clubs that only passed PSR due to 0% interest shareholder loans that should have been excluded?

It's opened up a big can of worms that's for sure!

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

This was useful. Soz if posted previously

 

[halfcenturyup]

If they had a deal delayed, reduced or rejected due to APT deals that might have caused them to fail PSR.

:) Well, yes in that case maybe. But I doubt they happened.

 

[BobKowalski]

I know the likes of Arsenal and Liverpool won't care in their desperation to make things difficult for us but I wonder if there are any clubs wavering in their support for Masters and the leagues.

Surely a few will be shitting themselves that APT2 will be ruled illegal and expose them to even more costs.

You have to question why clubs allow Masters to keep doubling down or why they passed APT2 with the final decision on APT1 was still been decided. For one, the decision to rush through ‘tweaks’ on a ‘minor setback’ must have raised an eyebrow or two with the independent panel and may even have helped nudge them into a more damning decision on APT1. When you are awaiting judgement it makes sense not to piss off those doing the judging.

And that brings us to narrative and why this judgement is important for City and 115. With Leicester smacking the PL over its shoddily drafted rules and City doing the same and more, given the rules drafted were unlawful, it paints a picture of organisational incompetence which the panel on the 115 can lean into with greater comfort then would have been the case if the decisions had gone against Leicester and ourselves and the PL had proven itself to be serious and competent.

I wouldn’t say the outcome of 115 is a certainty, but given recent judgments does anyone really think the PL presented a watertight case against City? The club certainly think they didn’t and the panel sitting in judgement will be aware of the narrative surrounding the PL and its now proven inability to draft rules or even act as an impartial regulator. The outright misrepresentation of the APT1 case, acting unreasonably with some clubs, employing ‘sleight of hand’ etc. The panel no matter how qualified, professional and impartial is only human, and it is always easier to go with the narrative than against.

 

[Stoned Rose]

For what?

Being cunts.