PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

laserblue said:
Not forgetting Liverpool failing FFP in 2013 and only escaping punishment by UEFA because they failed to qualify for Europe that season.

Then they were on the brink of failing FFP in 2015 but suddenly conjured up £35 million in 'stadium development expenses' specifically for the non-existent Stanley Park project which was initiated by Hicks and Gillette and no construction had been started by January 2012 when FSG canned the project. No details of how they could spend £35 million on a project that literally never got off the ground was made public but UEFA passed it and allowed the £35 million to be offset against Liverpool's FFP losses. (Take a bow R. Parry). This stunk to high heaven and my own feeling is that they held these 'expenses' back for a rainy day and produced them like a rabbit out of a hat when they were in deep shit in 2015 despite Hicks and Gillette having sold the club and ridden off into the sunset in 2010.

No Liverpool fan I've ever mentioned these two FFP breaches to either knows or admits to knowing anything about them. Some insist that these stadium development expenses were for Anfield but they weren't. The expense claim for Anfield also lodged with UEFA at the same time amounted to only £14.9 million, well under half the amount claimed for Stanley Park.

Maybe the PL can explain why they've not investigated either case but of course they won't.
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Maybe our club, Everton or Forest should put in a formal complaint to the Premier League as to why they are being charged but the Scousers arent. The Premier League rules state that all clubs must comply with EUFA rules. Liverpool broke F.F.P. So automatically broke the Premier league rules. Or, maybe one of the many investigative journalists might actually ask some searching questions? But of course they wont.
 
Dannyblue52 said:
Maybe our club, Everton or Forest should put in a formal complaint to the Premier League as to why they are being charged but the Scousers arent. The Premier League rules state that all clubs must comply with EUFA rules. Liverpool broke F.F.P. So automatically broke the Premier league rules. Or, maybe one of the many investigative journalists might actually ask some searching questions? But of course they wont.
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get a grip it was too long ago to rake over old ground
 
if Chelsea pull this off regarding selling infrastructure to internally to themselves well then Boehly is really master of loopholes.

as the alternative is them urgently selling 3-4 players for decent fees, and limit their spending for the summer window or face heavy PSR punishments like points deduction for next season which likely crush their chances finish in CL place.

I kind of like they give lot of extra headache to PL PSR lawyers.

thank God Boehly isnt as creative and good in transfers ad squad building as in finding loopholes.
 
jamielowndes said:
I have literally never said other teams aren't trying to influence the Premier League. We saw the 9 clubs get named publicly by Pep that wrote to UEFA (and he was right to do so).

What I've said is that there is no evidence the Premier League is actively involving them in the decision making process. Because that's a giant conflict of interest.
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The decison to spend four years investigating us with apparently virtually no evidence didn't happen by accident. The fact (and it is a fact) that senior people at LFC and MUFC gave repeated negative private briefings to the media urging action against City including confidential information from the UEFA investigation didn't happen by accident. You say conflict of interest. A better phrase would be collusion and corruption.
 
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