PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

jamielowndes said:
Yeah, the people who think there is a secret underground cartel of all the other big clubs and the PL collaborating together to plot our downfall are the rational ones.
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So no letter, no lobbying, no meetings?
Have an agenda by all means, but at least be sensible and don't just troll.
 
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Lord Blue said:
You would hope that the PL are hoping that we are innocent. So that they can protect the PL product whilst also satisfying the cartel that they have done a thorough investigative job but unfortunately we're clean.
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Cartel will only be 'satisfied' with a guilty verdict
 
jamielowndes said:
Yeah, the people who think there is a secret underground cartel of all the other big clubs and the PL collaborating together to plot our downfall are the rational ones.
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To believe there is no collaboration between the largest clubs in the Europe means you’re completely ignoring the G14 (then maybe G22 when expanded?)

The G14 may not be a thing anymore, but do you honestly believe they’ve all given up their power to influence the direction of European football & how to protect & grow their own assets?

Billionaires don’t always play fair when protecting their cash

Is it rational to ignore the fact that the G14 openly ran European football?
 
halfcenturyup said:
They choose to continue. Why? Who knows. Pressure to drag the process out? Sheer cussedness? A professional responsibility to get the bottom of everything?
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I mean that one is simple to answer - Adam Lewis will have advised them that in his opinion there was enough to proceed with. On Mancini & Fordham that’s understandable, even if they’re ultimately nothing burgers.

The most important question is why they decided to proceed on the most serious sponsorship allegations that - barring some gamechanging documents that even if they existed, City wouldn’t have provided to them - there is almost certainly no path to success for the PL.

A cynic might suggest that with the delay between the charge sheet being drawn up and released, they were still hunting for something more cogent on the sponsorship stuff, as Mancini & Fordham aren’t gamechangers, but ultimately panicked into pulling the trigger early once the whitepaper on regulators came out..

Certainly if the PL can’t land the serious charges this case will be discussed by Business MBA’s for a longtime to come as a what not to do.
 
Paladin said:
I'm not on the same knowledge level as many others on here, but I'd take issue over a few things.

The PL refused to punish Liverpool over the hacking because the incident happened too long ago. Yet they charge us for things even older.

United failed UEFA FFP last year, and by default, also broke PL rules. They haven't been charged for this, yet City have been charged five times by the PL for breaking UEFA regulations.

You say the PL has no proof we aren't cheating!! On that basis, I have no proof that I didn't mug that old lady and steal her purse the other day. Should I expect to appear in an identity parade sometime soon?

The way they sensationalised the charges against City tells me the PL have acted in extremely bad faith towards the club. They are 100% out to get us. The only question that remains is who (which of our rivals) put them up to this.
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This. Its clearly a witchhunt

Did the hateful 9 who sent the letter get done for breaking pl rules ? Did they fuck.
 
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