PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

I wonder how much football money is being spent by the league to investigate and prosecute clubs for spending their own money.

Who needs youth development, infrastructure, cheaper tickets etc.
 
Champions again in 2012 said:
Predictably the 2nd comment on the hys section is "What about Manchester City"
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It genuinely astonishes me the stupidity of some football fans (no offence to all of us). Fans now managing to simultaneously think these rules are nonsense but at the same time wanting us thrown out of the league requires mental gymnastics that I can’t comprehend
 
I'm Blue said:
Good old ‘doing things the right way’ Leicester surely not!
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Next you'll be telling me Wrexham, the Fairytale, Cinderella story Club are being looked into.

Maybe the plan is to charge nearly everyone and then say the problem is so widescale that to continue charging and punishing clubs would be detrimental to the grassroots of the game and that the PL are calling an amnesty for the good of the game as a whole. Wouldn't put it past them.
 
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well we'l soon be able to form a domestic lg
MAN CITY
CHELSEA
EVERTON
NEWCASTLE
LEICESTER
FORREST
or ist it a cunning plan from Baldrick down at the PL to charge everyone but certain red tops so they cant join the regroup and then we all carry on as normal but without them
 
Metalartin said:
As someone said, it wasn't really in the know City information, just Colin trying to piece things together. That was because of something in the emails about 'H.H securing funding from elsewhere' which was being used as a smoking gun argument.

Someone will be along to clear this up properly no doubt but from memory: I believe there was a belief, based off the open skies court case that involved Etihad, that ADEC(Abu Dhabi Executive Council?) 'likely' paid the money. H.H(His Highness) was said to be a different Royal, who is actually involved with Etihad, at CAS(so Colin was correct about that and it makes much more sense too). So that wouldn't be disguised equity and it wouldn't have involved Sheikh Mansour authorising payments from government funds. However, there may have still been an argument that the accounts weren't showing an accurate reflection of where the money came from, according to some(I seem to remember Der Spiegel made an article exploring that angle of attack).

It was a well reasoned theory and I certainly appreciated reading that take before the CAS hearing. If only to show the know-it-alls, that what was said in the emails could mean any number of things(not just what our rivals wanted it to mean) and only City truly knew the correct context, not Der Spiegel, not UEFA.

However, at CAS, we found out that £8m came from Etihad's marketing budget/fund, the rest came from Etihad's central funds. I believe they even showed accounting data to prove it but I could be mistaken. CAS accepted this explanation either way.
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They didn’t accept it as such. They just didn’t accept Uefa’s interpretation of events.
 
mike1923 said:
It genuinely astonishes me the stupidity of some football fans (no offence to all of us). Fans now managing to simultaneously think these rules are nonsense but at the same time wanting us thrown out of the league requires mental gymnastics that I can’t comprehend
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Especially as Leicester are currently at the same point in the process as us. Both been charged.
 
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