Wasn't your point of hidden payments theoretical & the panel will decide on basis of probability. Like I said, I'm not an accountant, but if the books add up after Uefa told us to cease with Fordham then I can't see the EPL having a case.
If there was any evidence of hidden payments do you not think the EPL would have charged us a lot sooner
It's not theoretical because the internal club documents leaked by der Spiegel mention such loss underwriting payments.
Yes, if the books add up then there isn't a problem, but that is true of every financial allegation ever made. My problem is that for Fordham and Touré I, personally, haven't seen enough in the public domain to be able to conclude there is no issue. If others have, I would be happy to hear it.
And no, imho the PL will have referred the allegations to the disciplinary process when they couldn't take their investigation any further and if they hadn't received, in their opinion, satisfactory answers to their questions.
I will say again, I don't think either of these allegations is in the same class of seriousness as the sponsorship allegations and so I am quite relaxed about them. I am also quite happy to give credit to Khaldoon when he says everything is above board. He has earned that. But when people say things like "what could the PL possibly be confident about?" I think it's perfectly reasonable for me to say that I don't know enough about either of these issues to conclude that there is no problem in the same way that I have been able to, in my mind at least, for the more serious issues around sponsorship.
Probably best to wait for the result of the hearing now, I think.