PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[halfcenturyup]

PB.

I asked the question. Don’t think it got a reply looking back. Do you know the reason or reasons why 1 of the 3 CAS Judges found City guilty? Was their reason/reasons ever stated in the judges final decisions? Thanks.

Dissenting opinions weren't published, nor were details of who voted how. But it's a good guess that it was the "judge" chosen by UEFA who voted in their favour every time.

He also got one of his monkeys to write a piece in the German press about how the CAS award was completely wrong, iirc.

Presumably he likes being chosen by UEFA. You can't trust these bloody foreigners, of course.

 

[eastmanc]

We're giving the likes of Jerk Off Jordan enough rope to professionally hang themselves with. His hackneyed anti-City diatribes will have zero credibility left once this witchhunt is over.

Jordan isn't an accountant or lawyer & has based his entire anti-City ANALysis on "It's well known within football circles, blah, blah, blah". Fuckin bollocks! He's just making shit up, passing off his personal opinion as fact, & spreading spurious trash talk just to fill in his minutes on Talkshite.

Jordan on Friday was dismissing Stefan's view that the City's case will take time because of the severity and seriousness of the accusations against a multi billion pound organisation. He was saying that he didn't care what Stefan said and that football was suffering due to City stretching the case out and that he had brought case against someone, haven't got a clue who and it didn't take this time. What an idiot this man is.

 

[Rory Bluelow]

City spending £300m on the stadium so obviously don't think there's a risk of being found guilty.
Rags appointing berrada as CEO so they don't think there is a risk of city being guilty.
Etihad opening the books for the world to see so they don't have anything to hide.

Only one way this is going.

It’s looking very promising isn’t it. All the indicators seems to be pointing the right way,

 

[halfcenturyup]

You may be right from a legal perspective, but there are political dynamics at play here and things could unravel very quickly. None of us know what is actually going on behind the scenes we can only guess.

I am not so sure. My feeling is that the PL has to carry this through to the end. It would be organisational suicide not to. Even if Masters is removed, the PL will have to continue the process to its completion imho.

It's better (not by much in the current climate, granted) for the PL to fight and lose than to give up after a year of (effectively) tub-thumping.

 

[west didsblue]

All the football investments were transferred into an intermediate holding at cost. I was thinking at the time there must be something substantial planned to do that. Football investments in one holding , some new entertainment ventures (Sony? Disney?) in another, maybe? Maybe the Arena as well?

Float the football investments to raise funds for the others?

Exciting times coming, I think. If you like the wider picture, at least.

I think it was more a case of all the UK assets being transferred into a CFG intermediate holding company to keep things simpler from a tax perspective. Investments in each country are put into individual intermediate holding companies with CFG as the umbrella over all of them.

 

[jrb]

 

[halfcenturyup]

Jordan on Friday was dismissing Stefan's view that the City's case will take time because of the severity and seriousness of the accusations against a multi billion pound organisation. He was saying that he didn't care what Stefan said and that football was suffering due to City stretching the case out and that he had brought case against someone, haven't got a clue who and it didn't take this time. What an idiot this man is.

Did he explain exactly how football is suffering?

 

[KS55]

All the football investments were transferred into an intermediate holding at cost. I was thinking at the time there must be something substantial planned to do that. Football investments in one holding , some new entertainment ventures (Sony? Disney?) in another, maybe? Maybe the Arena as well?

Float the football investments to raise funds for the others?

Exciting times coming, I think. If you like the wider picture, at least.

Yes, they would not do that restructure for no reason. Watch this space.

 

[wolviedinho]

The IPO piece in the mail is way down the pecking order. Without even reading it, the fact it’s buried deep shows it ain’t good news for the red cartel and the media.

Hide any positive story. Anything negative goes and stays as top story.

 

[Gone for a Burton]

It's not just the risk of a miscarriage of justice the club have to avoid, it's the media witch hunt that has reached fever pitch.

If these charges are found to be unfounded and the case is dropped leading to MCFC being cleared and exonerated of any wrongdoing; does anyone really believe that the British media will except that outcome gracefully?

They'll be sharpening their knives and plotting a new narrative based on cover ups and payoffs.

That old adage springs to mind: "you're damned if you do and damned if you don't"

It feels to me that this smear campaign has nothing to do with seeking justice and everything to do with providing the media outlets, broadcasting media, pundits and footballing fraternity a legitimate way to avoid celebrating the collosal strides and achievements MCFC have achieved over the past fifteen years.

It's not just the risk of a miscarriage of justice the club have to avoid, it's the media witch hunt that has reached fever pitch.

If these charges are found to be unfounded and the case is dropped leading to MCFC being cleared and exonerated of any wrongdoing; does anyone really believe that the British media will except that outcome gracefully?

They'll be sharpening their knives and plotting a new narrative based on cover ups and payoffs.

That old adage springs to mind: "you're damned if you do and damned if you don't"

It feels to me that this smear campaign has nothing to do with seeking justice and everything to do with providing the media outlets, broadcasting media, pundits and footballing fraternity a legitimate way to avoid celebrating the collosal strides and achievements MCFC have achieved over the past fifteen years.

Over exaggeration of any negative...

Under appreciation of our remarkable achievements...

Bitterness,envy & denial i plain sight.....

The future is BLUE

It's not just the risk of a miscarriage of justice the club have to avoid, it's the media witch hunt that has reached fever pitch.

If these charges are found to be unfounded and the case is dropped leading to MCFC being cleared and exonerated of any wrongdoing; does anyone really believe that the British media will except that outcome gracefully?

They'll be sharpening their knives and plotting a new narrative based on cover ups and payoffs.

That old adage springs to mind: "you're damned if you do and damned if you don't"

It feels to me that this smear campaign has nothing to do with seeking justice and everything to do with providing the media outlets, broadcasting media, pundits and footballing fraternity a legitimate way to avoid celebrating the collosal strides and achievements MCFC have achieved over the past fifteen years.