PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Chi-town blues]

Swimming in the sea at this time of the year can do that

…and the plum will turn into prune instantly.

 

[I'm Blue]

I got told by a successful businessman we pay Haaland in cash…. I asked how much, how often, what denominations & the crucial point….. where the fuck does Haaland hide it?

In all the match balls

 

[york away to this!]

Just to complete the analogy: like being heard saying you might steal a bag of Maltesers and then being charged for each single Malteser in every single bag that had ever gone missing .....

If you were to borrow some Maltesers, suck off the chocolate, then replace the centres from whence they came - surely you cannot be charged with Malteser theft?

 

[its grim up north]

If you were to borrow some Maltesers, suck off the chocolate, then replace the centres from whence they came - surely you cannot be charged with Malteser theft?

What about if you don't like Malteasers?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

If you were to borrow some Maltesers, suck off the chocolate, then replace the centres from whence they came - surely you cannot be charged with Malteser theft?

Criminal damage.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

No smoke without fire ffs. It’s the most idiotic expression in the English language.

United have turned the corner, run's it close.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Just to complete the analogy: like being heard saying you might steal a bag of Maltesers and then being charged for each single Malteser in every single bag that had ever gone missing .....

An analogy I've used is someone who's burgled a few houses being charged separately, and therefore facing a separate court case, for each item they nicked.

 

[SilverFox2]

An analogy I've used is someone who's burgled a few houses being charged separately, and therefore facing a separate court case, for each item they nicked.

Is the fact that they are linking 3 consecutive years as a rolling date spread similar to our date spread for same charges?

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

No smoke without fire ffs. It’s the most idiotic expression in the English language.

'It is what it is' has to come close

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Is the fact that they are linking 3 consecutive years as a rolling date spread similar to our date spread for same charges?

Not quite. The PSR/FFP assessment takes in 3 rolling years of data, and comes up with a single figure of aggregate losses.

So a loss of £150m in one year will impact three separate assessments. One of the good outcomes from our 2014 settlement with UEFA was that our previous losses were ignored in subsequent years, and we had to meet a different single-year threshold over each of the following two years. The PL, as has become apparent, hadn't thought through any of this coherently. Had it done, they might have adopted a similar approach to UEFA's.

The '115 charges' as I've said, is complete smoke and mirrors. There are 5 charges in total but only two of those, 1 & 2, relate to substantive accounting issues. If the PL can't land those, then charges 3 & 4 automatically fail, as they're totally dependent on 1 & 2. That leaves charge 5, of non-cooperation.

As I said earlier, I really can't imagine a believable scenario where they find against us on the sponsorship charge in 2014 but not 2016. Or where they find against us under one or two rules in one year but not the others we're accused of breaking under that heading in any specific year.