PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

sickswancity said:
Apologies for going slightly off piste but just wondered what others thought about this conversation me and my brother had last week. We've all been so busy defending the allegations that nobody has really discussed how we should feel if we are found guilty.

Like most of you on here I seriously doubt that our owners would commit such a wide range of fraudulent acts when we really never needed to and I believe we have no reason not to trust Khaldoon when he says we have irrefutable evidence to prove our innocence but just playing devils advocate for a moment...

If we were found guilty and it all comes out that the allegations were true and it was proved beyond all doubt that our owners used tactics to circumnavigate/break the rules to gain a sporting advantage - how would you feel about our owners after such a judgement and would you just forgive them for tarnishing our clubs name because we won some (well quite a lot) of trophies?

Would any of you be angry with our owners for taking the club we have loved all our lives and dragging it through the mud for commercial gain and leaving us as fans to deal with the shit show it leaves behind (as we are now)? I feel there would never be any coming back from it as every success from here on out would just be met with the old 115 cheat tag from rivals a they are doing now before our case has even been heard. It would almost be like - what's the point anymore, we were better off without the success but our integrity in-tact.

If the owners brought that upon us I just don't know how I would feel about it all. I think it would be fair to be very angry with them.
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I'd only be angry if I couldn't renew my season ticket.
 
wolviedinho said:
Victim eh? Now the dips are about to implode again maybe we could take over the mantle?

We didn’t fail the rules it was someone else’s fault. Ok I like it -:)
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Principle is the same as Putin uses to pursue his political enemies. He just keep inventing new random laws and rules until they are dead.
 
sickswancity said:
Apologies for going slightly off piste but just wondered what others thought about this conversation me and my brother had last week. We've all been so busy defending the allegations that nobody has really discussed how we should feel if we are found guilty.

Like most of you on here I seriously doubt that our owners would commit such a wide range of fraudulent acts when we really never needed to and I believe we have no reason not to trust Khaldoon when he says we have irrefutable evidence to prove our innocence but just playing devils advocate for a moment...

If we were found guilty and it all comes out that the allegations were true and it was proved beyond all doubt that our owners used tactics to circumnavigate/break the rules to gain a sporting advantage - how would you feel about our owners after such a judgement and would you just forgive them for tarnishing our clubs name because we won some (well quite a lot) of trophies?

Would any of you be angry with our owners for taking the club we have loved all our lives and dragging it through the mud for commercial gain and leaving us as fans to deal with the shit show it leaves behind (as we are now)? I feel there would never be any coming back from it as every success from here on out would just be met with the old 115 cheat tag from rivals a they are doing now before our case has even been heard. It would almost be like - what's the point anymore, we were better off without the success but our integrity in-tact.

If the owners brought that upon us I just don't know how I would feel about it all. I think it would be fair to be very angry with them.
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I will be so ashamed that I will have my arm with a City tattoo on it chopped off.
 
sickswancity said:
Apologies for going slightly off piste but just wondered what others thought about this conversation me and my brother had last week. We've all been so busy defending the allegations that nobody has really discussed how we should feel if we are found guilty.

Like most of you on here I seriously doubt that our owners would commit such a wide range of fraudulent acts when we really never needed to and I believe we have no reason not to trust Khaldoon when he says we have irrefutable evidence to prove our innocence but just playing devils advocate for a moment...

If we were found guilty and it all comes out that the allegations were true and it was proved beyond all doubt that our owners used tactics to circumnavigate/break the rules to gain a sporting advantage - how would you feel about our owners after such a judgement and would you just forgive them for tarnishing our clubs name because we won some (well quite a lot) of trophies?

Would any of you be angry with our owners for taking the club we have loved all our lives and dragging it through the mud for commercial gain and leaving us as fans to deal with the shit show it leaves behind (as we are now)? I feel there would never be any coming back from it as every success from here on out would just be met with the old 115 cheat tag from rivals a they are doing now before our case has even been heard. It would almost be like - what's the point anymore, we were better off without the success but our integrity in-tact.

If the owners brought that upon us I just don't know how I would feel about it all. I think it would be fair to be very angry with them.
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Might be completely wrong but I’d be surprised if it was anything as clear cut as definite guilt. It would be balance of probability and interpretation of the rules. - Mansour meeting the initial costs of Etisalat and being repaid was giving misleading information, the image rights arrangements were not in the spirit of the rules, that kind of thing. City’s top team would continue to protest their innocence, the red mafia would claim victory, appeals would drag on. But hopefully everything will be thrown out for lack of evidence. And I’d still back the club 100% whatever
 
nijinsky69 said:
It’s not indifference, more likely resignation to our current dominance. There’s a big difference. The lack of competitiveness argument is also bollocks - we’ve had Liverpool and now Arsenal push us right to the end on numerous occasions. That is the very definition of competition.
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The contrast between the medias present narrative - the PL is boring - contrasts sharply with the wankathon that accompanied Liverpool running away with the title during Covid - that was a dull climax to the season but I heard absolutely no complaints from the media about a lack of competition! I wonder why ?
 
why me? Blue Manchester said:
Has something changed/happened?
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No , the record is still broken when you have to explain each and every one the “if” part which has been dissected ,rinsed and repeated to infinity on this thread by some of our knowledgeable members here.
Tomorrow I might wake up and ask what if, again and we all go thought that vicious cycle like never ending story.
 
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