PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I'm not too concerned about the lack of PR on this. The upper management has always preferred the "move in silence" approach and they don't see a reason to drag themselves into the knuckle dragging discourse going on at the moment.

I guarantee Khaldoon has just laughed off any of the BS on talk radio or podcasting. None of that has any importance if you're actually in the eye of the storm.

No one is expecting Khaldoon to call up TS and give it the big one, but the club has not issued a statement about this for over a year. I fail to see how a brief statement about our engagement with the process; the absence of any substantive evidence; asserting that the delay is down to the process, not us; and reaffirming our innocence would be against the club’s best interests. If those four elements are true (which I believe they are) I can’t see why that doesn’t happen, given the length of time for this still to play out and recent events in relation to other clubs.

I can see nothing wrong with the club reaffirming its position at this stage.

 

[Gordyola]

I think that’s fair comment and is absolutely not what I meant. However, can anyone honestly say the current approach is having a positive effect on how the club is perceived?

Logic (and some emotion tbf) points to these charges being completely without substance. That also appears to be the prevailing view on here. On that basis, why don’t the club exercise control over the narrative a little more, rather than allow lies and falsehoods to take root and flourish as they have hitherto? I could understand the reticence if there was any substance to these hugely serious allegations, but I do not believe there is, and I therefore think the club needs to seize the initiative a little more as the current radio silence is causing more harm than this shift in approach would imo. Especially at this time, when the whole PL edifice around financial restrictions is becoming increasingly dysfunctional and is looking like it could fall anpart anytime.

There has to be some middle ground that departs from deafening silence. I don’t see what the club has to lose from that. It might not have any effect, and is unlikely going to have an overwhelmingly positive impact, but it will make a material difference to the optics imo, given the nature of the charges and how long they have been in force - and public.

It’s about exercising a small degree of control over the narrative, when we currently have absolutely none.

That’s what I meant when I said act like champions.

From the outside looking in then it appears the club are sitting back and not fighting but I know how hard the communications team work to try and fight the negative media, trouble is, its already lost the war with few in the media prepared to help City fight their corner I'm sure you would agree that, going to law to fight the slurs is a waste of time and money when the club have more urgent matters to attend to

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

From the outside looking in then it appears the club are sitting back and not fighting but I know how hard the communications team work to try and fight the negative media, trouble is, its already lost the war with few in the media prepared to help City fight their corner I'm sure you would agree that, going to law to fight the slurs is a waste of time and money when the club have more urgent matters to attend to

A brief statement isn’t going to distract the club from doing anything.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

I'll admit I'm not expert in ffp but this person on YouTube comments says that debt before the rules doesn't count. No idea if that's correct. But arent City being charged for breaking the rules before the rules were made ?

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He's just talking tosh.

There is no calculation in the FFP/PSR regs about total debt; it's all about losses year-to-year. I'm pretty certain that the interest payments on debt count towards FFP/PSR, but the actual debt value itself is irrelevant.

 

[manimanc]

I'll admit I'm not expert in ffp but this person on YouTube comments says that debt before the rules doesn't count. No idea if that's correct. But arent City being charged for breaking the rules before the rules were made ?

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What complete bollocks.

Things like this tell me the red hoardes are shitting it.

I mean what the funk are they on about here, do they really believe that?

Hilarious.

 

[give it to gordon]

What complete bollocks.

Things like this tell me the red hoardes are shitting it.

I mean what the funk are they on about here, do they really believe tat?

Hilarious.

I didnt carry on the 'conversation' after that because I thought he was talking bollocks lol

 

[dadnlad]

No one is expecting Khaldoon to call up TS and give it the big one, but the club has not issued a statement about this for over a year. I fail to see how a brief statement about our engagement with the process; the absence of any substantive evidence; asserting that the delay is down to the process, not us; and reaffirming our innocence would be against the club’s best interests. If those four elements are true (which I believe they are) I can’t see why that doesn’t happen, given the length of time for this still to play out and recent events in relation to other clubs.

I can see nothing wrong with the club reaffirming its position at this stage.

If ssn talk about charges recently more often than not they end with city deny any wrong doing which is more than they use to

 

[Gordyola]

I like that. All transfers to be paid up front.

No loans to avoid FSR like Arsenal who play 10 +1 the +1 being the Brentford GK thats cheating in my book

 

[Gordyola]

I'm not too concerned about the lack of PR on this. The upper management has always preferred the "move in silence" approach and they don't see a reason to drag themselves into the knuckle dragging discourse going on at the moment.

I guarantee Khaldoon has just laughed off any of the BS on talk radio or podcasting. None of that has any importance if you're actually in the eye of the storm.

Think he missed it as he was in a meeting with POTUS at the time

 

[Gordyola]

A brief statement isn’t going to distract the club from doing anything.

Doubtful it would make one iota of a difference