PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[halfcenturyup]

It's extraordinary. I don't know how we can be accused of very serious accounting malpractice and yet see our case go to an independent hearing of this kind. The Serious Fraud Office and/or HMRC must surely be taking an interest in the explosive nature of these allegations. There will surely be questions about the competency of the PL if they failed to detect falsification, as well as many other bodies that scrutinised our accounts and ultimately signed them off. I agree with Stefan when he says that it is entirely plausible that the PL simply do not understand of what it is they are accusing City. This has the potential to become an extremely ugly affair and goes beyond the UEFA allegations in terms of severity. It would also appear that some of the professional courtesy that City shared with UEFA is lacking with the PL. After the CAS verdict, Khaldoon called Ceferin and they had a cordial conversation. I don't see something similar happening here - I think that the outcome could shake the foundations of the PL, particularly with independent regulation in the offing. I should imagine that the UK government will only be emboldened to introduce independent regulation if one of its key security allies and trade partners is wrongfully smeared by an organisation that is in the grip of certain members with too much influence.

I said earlier that by referencing true and fair financial information, everyone thinks we cheated on the annual accounts. I think they used the wrong expression and it was a clumsy description. We will see.

 

[BlueMoonz1977]

Anyone who has ever entered a negotiation knows you overstate your position in order to settle at the best figure you can get.
Looks like the premier league are trying to puff up the whole thing into something it’s not. I mean including youth player contracts etc
I imagine they know full well half of this will be thrown out and they are hoping some will stick.
They will them punish us for some minimal stuff and act like we’re cheats

Its the last four words of your post that i am now totally fucking fed up with, it has gone on for too long this City are cheats narrative

There is no way, if we prove all these allegations are false that we can just say 'job done" and then sit quietly on a victory knowing full well we will be lauded as cheats still in their eyes

The systematic damage that is being caused by all of this deserves now to be countered with everything we have, and if that means destroying the PL as it is now then so be it

The whole PL organisation is corrupt to the core to placate the clubs who believe it is their divine right to sit at the top

 

[M18CTID]

Maybe we should insist that HMRC and the Serious Crimes unit be brought in.
I really think that we need to gane change such are the seriousness if the charges and their potential consequences. Why the fuck should we sit meekly under this cloud for the next x years.

This is a great shout. Assuming the allegations of false accounting are bollocks of course, perhaps that's what we should do and also ask the PL why the fuck they didn't being them in.

 

[Rascal]

40,000 fans in the conference, that would show them all who has the plastic fans!

Wouldn't it just and if anything it would actually improve the atmosphere at the Etihad as everyone would be behind the lads 100%

We would still have empty seats at home though apart from when we play our local derbies against Altrincham and Oldham :))

Euro away to Wrexham, plus we would be Cup minnows taking 1000s to the big boys

 

[WRicko]

So very confused about all of this.

I like to think I am relatively aware of off the field matters but this all seems a lot more complex and frankly bizarre than the previous set of allegations and our fight with UEFA so I don’t really know what’s going on that being said.

Surely for some of these allegations to be true collusion between man city and major corporations and auditors needs to have taken place along with tax evasion and false accounting.

How can they have evidence ? When they would need evidence from players managers companies bank accounts that they don’t have jurisdiction over ?

Also won’t HMRC etc have to get involved ?

How was nothing spotted before ?

Maybe it’s a set up or clear our name ?

Or maybe they just really hate us ?

What’s the time scale on this ?

Does anything related to transfers ?

Why was the hack time barred but not this ?

 

[come-on-barney]

The media’s reporting is exceptionally negative so how n earth can we expect neutrality in an “independent “ review?
We’re already being portrayed as guilty!

Think that’s the point we are making. There is no chance of a fair hearing.

 

[waspish]

So apparently City, our external auditors, Silver Lake and the Chinese government are all in on a conspiracy to pay Bobby Manc a few backhanders?

They just want to get us. That's it. And I think this time they'll be made to look stupid

Chinese don’t own any shares anymore

 

[decmancity]

Just in case anyone is in doubt over who our chairman is. Find some time to watch this,



He makes executives at the Premier League look like contestants on the apprentice.

This goes beyond City v Premier League. It has now become a geo political issue.

 

[lancs blue]

having a friendly conversation with some newcastle fans who said some of our sponsorship deals were dodgy as fuck so i asked them to back it up with examples .... 8xBet, 3Key and Wega were quoted back at me and tbh i had no answer other than if thats true it'll come out now.

anyone have a better answer?

Just for context they like us and think we're being made an example of.

I'd say they were not so much "dodgy" in a fraudulent sense as poorly researched. Another is the OKX deal, getting into a crypto-exchange sponsorship just as the whole thing starts to unravel.

 

[Burtonblue]

This is what happens when the Americans get involved. It's no coincidence that since they have been involved in the so called 'big' clubs we have been systematically abused. I wonder why, could it just be the location of our owners. These Yank cnuts have no understanding of competition, they want to slice up the pie and divide it amongst themselves. If anyone gets in the way they go nuclear on them. This is what Yanks do whether it's politics, economics or sport. They blow up everything for their own benefit, they even blow up countries to reap the dividends, they'll happily try and gut us.

Great post.
Ukraine is a classic example.
Americans shit stirring and suffering none of the consequences.