PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[halfcenturyup]

Thank you so much for that post.
Your command of the English language uses a phrase or two where I need several sentances and fail to get real meaning.

We all value your posts.

Teacher's pet!

 

[Rammy Blue]

Going back over two days and more than 20 pages in the thread, but I liked this post when I saw it and think it raises an important but oft-overlooked point. I fully agree with your final sentence, but what most people generally haven't realised is that it would be manifestly straightforward for City to operate successfully, from the club's point of view, within the rules we're accused of breaking.

It's commonly asserted that we have access to the best and most expensive professional advice (not invariably the same thing, but the aphorism that one gets what one pays for is as true here as in any other context). Why is it so hard for people to believe that, having recourse to the services of leading professionals, we were able to find ways to circumvent the rules in question?

Now, you'll get the usual simpletons bleating risibly about the "spirit of the regulations" or other similar nonsense, in the way I believe Shaun Custis has been on Talksport this morning with reference to our recent signing of the American teenager Cavan Sullivan. However, as @Chris in London posted some time back, the "spirit of the [regulations we're accused of having breached] was to give the established G14 teams a competitive advantage at our expense [so] I frankly don't give a fuck".

This all illustrates how invidious the coverage of the entire issue has been. The Football Leaks/Der Spiegel revelations have been almost universally presented as a metaphorical smoking gun when, as many of us said at the time, they represented no such thing. They could be read in that light, but were equally consistent with a business trying to find ways to operate lawfully within the relevant rules notwithstanding that such rules had been deliberately crafted to stymie us.

A coterie of bad-faith liars have sought to drive coverage in that direction. Others, with no understanding of the business side of football, tag along, fearful of the derision that would ensue were they to gainsay the prevailing groupthink. And the result now is that we're habitually confronted by a disheartening parade of imbeciles who witlessly parrot the line about 115 charges, thinking that they're outlining a telling line of reasoning. Pathetic.

Beautiful.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Thank you so much for that post.
Your command of the English language uses a phrase or two where I need several sentances and fail to get real meaning.

We all value your posts.

And all done without using words I have to Google to understand…. @gordondaviesmoustache

 

[chedlee]

Amen brother.

So you are only friends with city fans? That is weird.

 

[Maly]

We could only "not co-operate" after 2018 because that is when the investigation started. We couldn't "not co-operate" before they had even started :)

Lol

I mean for seasons 2018 onwards

 

[BAB.DAB]

Other clubs are going to have a vested interest in our downfall because it benefits them.

But to say that means the PL is actively collaborating with those 9 clubs to ensure our downfall is tin foil hat territory.

Rivals Big Six clubs 'pushing hardest for Man City to be punished'

Should Man City be found guilty, they face a range of potential sanctions including a points deduction or even an expulsion - though it could take years to come to a conclusion.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[SilverFox2]

Teacher's pet!

He has certainly taught me a lot as some of our elite posters have done.

Praise where praise is due.
You don't do bad yourself my friend.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

And all done without using words I have to Google to understand…. @gordondaviesmoustache

The question is, did you understand them after you’d Googled them?…

 

[jamielowndes]

Rivals Big Six clubs 'pushing hardest for Man City to be punished'

Should Man City be found guilty, they face a range of potential sanctions including a points deduction or even an expulsion - though it could take years to come to a conclusion.

www.dailymail.co.uk

That literally validates what I said.

Other teams are going to push for us to be sanctioned because its now an open spot if we get kicked out.

Nowhere in that article does it say the Premier League is actively taking on advice from these clubs.

 

[At-Swim-Two-Birds]

Question for the lawyers out there. Everyone keeps talking about legal and illegal. What is the legal status of the Premier League? Are we talking about breaching the rules of a club? Are we talking about breaching the articles of association of a limited company? I understand that both could also be in contravention of the law of the land.