PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[eyalluvitt]

It’s part of the narrative that we need to pay 100 lawyers £100k an hour every hour every day till a case is heard. In reality, we’ll have a team of in-house lawyers(my neighbour being one) working on the every day litigation.,
And Lord Panic will have his team review our evidence and then present it at trial.

Lord Panic won’t be digging through emails looking for the loophole they all claim.

Where do you live & does she sunbathe in the back garden?

 

[vincent]

Andy Burnham has just been on the radio talking about Everton and Forest. They tried to lead him down the City route but he wisely swerved it and skirted round the edges of the issue

Yeah all unfair and outrageous when it comes to Everton, but saying absolutely nothing about the club that is in Manchester which he is suppose to represent.

 

[Bluesince1979]

Half way through the ‘unofficial partner’ podcast with nick harris and stefan and got to say its the first time ive been genuinely worried about the outcome.
Colin savage is also quoted as saying “yeah ive heard that some of the monies that was supposed to have come from etihad came from elsewhere”

As keeps being said, would the prem league have brought this case of incredible magnitude on a wim or on the say so of the red shirts?

 

[flb]

In other news......Man uniteds 2024 half yearly financial results dropped into my inbox courtesy of Swiss Ramble.
So far the last 2.5 years are:
2022 = -150 million
2023 = -32 million
2024 = -5.5 million

On reviewing past performance 2nd half yearly results (out of CL) will be lots worse probably ending up similarly to last year, about -30 million.
I'm not sure how much they can claim for COVID related relief in 2022 but it will have to make a hole in -218 million or they might have to sell the Wythenshaw Tequilla Queen, Argentinian Romulan lookalikee or the Lancastrian Kilt wearing Tim Nice but dim.
Now that would be a laughingly interesting fire sale.

Hahaha! The Wythenshawe tequila queen !

Brilliant !

 

[bluenova]

Has anyone else noticed that the whole chelsea thing about dodgy payments to agents is being completely ignored….even though it’s admitted!
Stefan rightly still highlighting it but
Essentially if they are charged they are going to have a similar number of charges as us because o yes a number of payments over a period and will affect the numbers in accounts for years after

It’s almost like because they are shit no one cares
Surely the rules are the rules for everyone
Not just City

Aren't there two separate issues with Chelsea?

They admitted finding some issues with the accounts, and UEFA fined them. From the coverage, it looks like they weren't anything major.

Shortly after, the payments to agents came out in a leak of bank documents. These are similar to some of the allegations against us, and much more serious, but Chelsea at the time said they didn't know anything about them, and hadn't even seen the documents. The PL said they were investigating, so they're really at the stage we were in 2018, and haven't actually been accused of anything by the PL yet. Not sure about the original stuff they admitted, but it would make sense if it's been folded into the more complicated investigation.

You do see it mentioned occasionally, and most of the big media outlets have done articles, but I guess there in the same limbo we were.

The cynic in me would suggest that until they start winning things, there won't be huge pressure from anyone for quicker action. You certainly won't get another million clicks from Liverpool fans by saying "what about Chelsea?".

 

[flb]

Andy Burnham has just been on the radio talking about Everton and Forest. They tried to lead him down the City route but he wisely swerved it and skirted round the edges of the issue

And so the stupid **** should do, he'd be a fool getting involved in the city debate with our owners pumping astronomical investment into east Manchester, maybe just every now and then pillocks like him should just show a bit of support to the club who reside under Manchester City Council, he doesn't mind throwing his weight around supporting tax dodging scruffy Jims "National stadium of the north" plans does he, that's something Trafford Borough Council should be supporting, he's the bloke who wants to implement clean air driving zone in Manchester, fuck off back to Liverpool you nob rash.

 

[93.20]

Bit of Dickens...Im sure yer all familiar with...Bleak House.
replace PL V MCFC ....with...

Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, over the course of time, become so complicated, that no man alive knows what it means. The parties to it understand it least; but it has been observed that no two Chancery lawyers can talk about it for five minutes without coming to a total disagreement as to all the premises. Innumerable children have been born into the cause; innumerable young people have married into it; innumerable old people have died out of it. Scores of persons have deliriously found themselves made parties in Jarndyce and Jarndyce without knowing how or why; whole families have inherited legendary hatreds with the suit. The little plaintiff or defendant, who was promised a new rocking-horse when Jarndyce and Jarndyce should be settled, has grown up, possessed himself of a real horse, and trotted away into the other world. Fair wards of court have faded into mothers and grandmothers; a long procession of Chancellors has come in and gone out.

Continuing your Dickensian theme, I raise you Hard Times

"Who can look on’t sir, and fairly tell a man ‘tis not a muddle?"

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Half way through the ‘unofficial partner’ podcast with nick harris and stefan and got to say its the first time ive been genuinely worried about the outcome.
Colin savage is also quoted as saying “yeah ive heard that some of the monies that was supposed to have come from etihad came from elsewhere”

As keeps being said, would the prem league have brought this case of incredible magnitude on a wim or on the say so of the red shirts?

Where did Savage hear it, RAWK?

 

[chaddblue]

And so the stupid **** should do, he'd be a fool getting involved in the city debate with our owners pumping astronomical investment into east Manchester, maybe just every now and then pillocks like him should just show a bit of support to the club who reside under Manchester City Council, he doesn't mind throwing his weight around supporting tax dodging scruffy Jims "National stadium of the north" plans does he, that's something Trafford Borough Council should be supporting, he's the bloke who wants to implement clean air driving zone in Manchester, fuck off back to Liverpool you nob rash.

I'm not supporting him and I agree with what you say... but he's the mayor of greater manchester not manchester, which includes trafford

 

[wolviedinho]

Half way through the ‘unofficial partner’ podcast with nick harris and stefan and got to say its the first time ive been genuinely worried about the outcome.
Colin savage is also quoted as saying “yeah ive heard that some of the monies that was supposed to have come from etihad came from elsewhere”

As keeps being said, would the prem league have brought this case of incredible magnitude on a wim or on the say so of the red shirts?

Maybe Colin was talking about the 3rd party element involved with Ethiad?

On the balance of probability and the fact that we have a clean paper trail that was accepted at CAS I wouldn’t worry. The bit you quoted is not factual but more hearsay. Going into these proceedings the starting point is that the people involved are not deliberately being dishonest.

Facts will prevail, not innuendos and not out of context information not matter how it looks.