PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Bez]

Don't see how we stadium share rags have 55k season ticket holders that would have to be dropped to 40k if they were to share with us.

I think Man Utd should play at the Wembley of The South while The Theatre of Screams is being done up. After all, that is where a lot of their fans live.

 

[iwasthere1968]

Has there been some news about the proceedings in the last few days ? I've had a few days away from the Internet ( recommend to all !)
Amid a couple of posters arguing between themselves ad nauseum there seems to be reference to some news.
Can anyone put this up or give a quick summary ?

Don't include the word doomed.

 

[waspish]

They don’t want us mate.
They want the who pay the most money.

This is the way of things now, and football is no different.
In a perfect world, us legacy fans would be treated with care and respect. But this is not a perfect world.

Yep us fans that's been through the 70's 80's 90's 00's to now will be gone eventually just with age and the newer fans woman kids men will be the happy clappy fans of the future and is better than the some of the older fans from the hooliganism era the tribalism be slowly go to..

 

[nmc]

Well, yes. For the Etihad sponsorship, where on earth would they get the evidence that Mansour paid most of the money to Etihad?

They have some emails that say an "HH" arranged for the monies, some bank statements that follow the numbers in the emails (8 from Etihad and 52 from central funds) but emails don't prove what happened even if they mean what the PL say they may mean. They have no idea at all where Etihad got the money. There will be nothing at the club that shows that, nor should there be, and they don't have the power to demand information from Mansour or Etihad. I think we can discount a whistle-blower. So the only explanation I can provide is that they decided to refer the allegations to close the investigation by "forcing" the club to provide the withheld evidence to the IC. The alternative would have been an embarrassing climbdown for the PL.

The outcome, though, will be an embarrassing "defeat" for the PL which is why the club have been so clever.

That’s my point it’s a ridiculous allegation and they have to prove their case BEFORE we have to prove anything. The onus is on them… which the majority of the media completely fail to understand. If the PL sent their evidence to the CPS - do you think they’d run with the case…. Absolutely they wouldn’t but then again UEFA had no evidence but, internally they still found us guilty - which was a farce when you read the CAS judgement. The PL must have been told by their legal team that they have little chance of making anything stick but, one can only assume that the greatest pressure is being applied by Execs at the Red shirt clubs who have limited actual knowledge of the facts. They just want us guilty.

 

[MadchesterCity]

If you ignore the noise from the parasites looking for engagement and sound bites everything points to us being completely cleared.

United are getting in their early with their comments, and whether directly involved or not, wouldn’t have touched Omar with a barge pole if we weren’t due to be cleared.
I don’t want it but I’m also 99% sure we’ll stadium share as an upper management ‘water under the bridge’ moment.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Liverpool started cozying up to us soon as well

will they have sufficient time to disinfect seats between games

 

[MadchesterCity]

The decision to allow the rags to ground share will ultimately be down to local residents and councillors. There are legal challenges on going between them and the new Arena management. Thats why the Arena have had licence applications refused. They also successfully campaigned for the Eastlands Resident Parking scheme which has affected at lot of blues. There's no chance whatsoever they will accept another 30 odd rag match days for the 3 or 4 years on top of City games, Arena events, Academy games and summer concerts. If the rags want to ground share they should try Bolton or Wigan, the Ethihad is a total non starter.

Or Salford

 

[SilverFox2]

Well, yes. For the Etihad sponsorship, where on earth would they get the evidence that Mansour paid most of the money to Etihad?

They have some emails that say an "HH" arranged for the monies, some bank statements that follow the numbers in the emails (8 from Etihad and 52 from central funds) but emails don't prove what happened even if they mean what the PL say they may mean. They have no idea at all where Etihad got the money. There will be nothing at the club that shows that, nor should there be, and they don't have the power to demand information from Mansour or Etihad. I think we can discount a whistle-blower. So the only explanation I can provide is that they decided to refer the allegations to close the investigation by "forcing" the club to provide the withheld evidence to the IC. The alternative would have been an embarrassing climbdown for the PL.

The outcome, though, will be an embarrassing "defeat" for the PL which is why the club have been so clever.

Is it possible at even this late stage that a statement by the PL would halt procedings.? By that I mean something acceptable to City that say admits their gut feeling about payment details was simply misplaced.
If so now they have all the things City refused to originally gave surely it will be more embarrassing to continue without that evidence that prompted the action.

 

[Xhavenjoe]

This thread is the equivalent of driving round the same roundabout for 13 months straight.

You drive around a roundabout straight?

 

[halfcenturyup]

Is it possible at even this late stage that a statement by the PL would halt procedings.? By that I mean something acceptable to City that say admits their gut feeling about payment details was simply misplaced.
If so now they have all the things City refused to originally gave surely it will be more embarrassing to continue without that evidence that prompted the action.

It's a bit like the ending to Ghostbusters. To paraphrase: Choose the embarrassment of your destruction :)

But no, I don't think withdrawing the allegations is at all likely. Even if the serious charges aren't proven they will be able to get the club on something soft I guess, with a small sanction.

 

[Winchester]

I wish something would happen
It's unsettling