PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[manimanc]

We’ve unquestionably been accused of fraud over a sustained period. No other way of characterising it. And you can only commit fraud intentionally.

Just to butt in, if indeed it is fraud of an industrial scale which we are being accused of then it has nothing to do with the Premier League, it's over to the relevant authorities.

 

[Metal Biker]

It’s not the PL definition, it’s the legal one.

Does that now make you hate the club and ashamed to be a supporter of it?

No, 100% no That's my whole point. He's used his own money to finance the club, so who is the victim here?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

No, 100% no That's my whole point. He's used his own money to finance the club, so who is the victim here?

Yeah, I wasn’t being remotely serious!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Just to butt in, if indeed it is fraud of an industrial scale which we are being accused of then it has nothing to do with the Premier League, it's over to the relevant authorities.

It would theoretically be to do with both.

 

[Metal Biker]

Yeah, I wasn’t being remotely serious!

Y'all gotta use smilies or something when i'm half-cut, man

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Y'all gotta use smilies or something when i'm half-cut, man

I only use them when I’m not!

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

The thing is: it's like having a discussion on Talksport. Anything the club says will be misrepresented, talked over, talked down. So what does the club do then? Issue another statement to clarify the misrepresentation? It would be never ending and give the press/ social media exactly what they want.

The sort of people who are getting their knickers in a twist from press/ social media now will be getting their knickers twisted even more by the misrepresentations after a brief sigh of relief following a statement from the club.

It's much, much better for everyone if the club says nothing, imho.

Well iv heard Stefan borsan on talksport defending City, putting another side. I think that's helped change the mood towards City, after years of one way shite we've got someone who puts the other side. I wonder what would happen if the club did the same. Not that it matters I trust the club more than my judgement.

 

[silva_is_gold]

Kyle Walkers just pulled his hamstring playing for England ffs!

 

[johnnytapia]

I think why the club’s silence has come into my mind now, when it didn’t really occupy my thoughts a week or so ago, is that the sands appear to be shifting quite quickly with regards to PL financial rules - and now seems to me to be an apposite time for the club to try and take some initiative, assuming they are supremely confident of the ground they are standing on, which I believe is the case.

Rightly or wrongly, I feel now is the time for the club to be more on the front foot with this than hitherto, as the whole thing is descending into a farce from which City could accrue some advantage, that possibly wasn’t available a month or so ago.

Has any other club been charged today btw?

City have absolutely nothing to gain by issuing any interim statements- in fact, quite the opposite.

We made our statement at the outset. Nothing more need be said until a judgment has been handed down. Then we’ll speak.

If a defendant believes he / she has a rock-solid case, then an opening, “hard”rebuttal is all that is required.

Simply reiterating that rebuttal just smacks of being desperate to be believed.

If Pannick thought it were a good idea, we’d have heard something.

 

[Prophet of Doom]

Well iv heard Stefan borsan on talksport defending City, putting another side. I think that's helped change the mood towards City, after years of one way shite we've got someone who puts the other side. I wonder what would happen if the club did the same. Not that it matters I trust the club more than my judgement.

Helped change the mood ?? Hardly.

Whilst it’s great Stefan fighting our corner - virtually every show repeats the usual ‘warrabout City’ crap.