PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Agreed. If City were in trouble then the big mouths at the red shirts couldn't contain themselves and would make sure it was known via the usual media suspects.
Yes, under those circumstances there would have definitely been whispers of doom from the usual suspects. All we’ve had of note in recent weeks from that quarter was Herbert’s pitiful tantrum.
 
Hard to see how these guys have been isolated in a papal conclave for 9 months. It is highly likely that contact at least indirectly has taken place between the panel and interested parties. While no official definitive communication will have taken place it may well be that the powers that be have formed in their minds the likely contours of the result.
The PL may well have relayed this perspective to cartel members who then decided to loosen the purse strings. They may have reasonably decided that, if not abolition, significant changes to the PSR rules are in the pipeline.
Thre will be some interesting conversations in the directors box at Old Trafford next weekend.
 
I have said it before so like indigestion I will repeat myself. My view is that at the beginning the cartel and PL were the billy big bollocks thinking they could do anything regarding rules to keep themselves at the front of the trough. The APT case smashed that into little pieces. I have a feeling that if all the emails messages etc that City requested have been 'found' and handed over there could very well be some explosive material in there. Plus, I think City knew what they were looking for in these messages as they had already seen them before asking for them. My opinion, could be wrong though;-)
 
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There are 130 odd charges apparently, they just screwed up counting them originally and 115 had already stuck. Or there are 4 or 5 main charges but spread over a decade or two so multiplied many times.

Who knows, who cares.
I've said before that there are 3 substantive charges, under two main headings, with another 2 charges totally dependent on those initial 3. Then there's the non-cooperation one. These are spread over multiple rules and multiple seasons.

The first set, which are potentially the most serious, seem to involve (possibly among other things) whether Etihad and the other Abu Dhabi companies were related parties. But that shouldn't take long to decide as it's a binary choice. They're either related or they're not. They can't be a bit related.
 
Spitty was mad for Ziegler to blame City for dragging out the result or delaying it
Almost putting words in his mouth but Ziegler said it was the adjudicators now who everyone’s waiting on
The hate filled **** can’t see past the straightforward logic of the timetable being completely out of City’s hands once the evidence is concluded and closing arguments completed.
 
I have said it before so like an indigestion I will repeat myself. My view is that at the beginning the cartel and PL were the billy big bollocks thinking they could do anything regarding rules to keep themselves at the front of the trough. The APT case smashed that into little pieces. I have a feeling that if all the emails messages etc that City requested have been 'found' and handed over there could very well be some explosive material in there. Plus, I think City knew what they were looking for in these messages as they had already seen them before asking for them. My opinion, could be wrong though;-)
I’ve never wanted a statement to be as true as much as what you have just wrote,it’d be better than waking up next to Margot Robbie;)
 
I have said it before so like an indigestion I will repeat myself. My view is that at the beginning the cartel and PL were the billy big bollocks thinking they could do anything regarding rules to keep themselves at the front of the trough. The APT case smashed that into little pieces. I have a feeling that if all the emails messages etc that City requested have been 'found' and handed over there could very well be some explosive material in there. Plus, I think City knew what they were looking for in these messages as they had already seen them before asking for them. My opinion, could be wrong though;-)
I would suspect City had very specific emails in mind that they had knowledge of and probably wondered whether they would be handed over or conveniently lost, which would have been fantastic if it happened and we pulled them out and queried why they’d failed to disclose them
 
Spitty was mad for Ziegler to blame City for dragging out the result or delaying it
Almost putting words in his mouth but Ziegler said it was the adjudicators now who everyone’s waiting on
It sums up the MSM that a guy who was caught red handed with fucking VIDEO EVIDENCE….spitting in the general direction of a young girl…..with DISGUSTING GOS FLYING THROUGH THE AIR for EVERYONE to SEE,is now STILL knocking out a lucrative career in the media,but wait a minute….my bad,he’s ex Liverpool….so his GOS was like be sainted when it hit the lucky little girl……..
That incident was one off the most disgusting things I’ve EVER SEEN,made worse because a child was involved…fighting a losing battle when horrible wrong’uns like him can survive that grotesque incident and carry on like nothings happened.
 
You aren't seriously suggesting United are funding these purchases out of administrative savings?

Also, the above conspiracy was yours. It's perfectly possible the PL lawyers gave negative feedback on the hearings to the PL, that this was passed down to the usual suspects and they have decided there is no point waiting another year to invest, PSR be damned.
Can’t believe you indulged him HCU. I read his response to my post and just couldn’t be arsed.
 
Something that I am sure has been asked, and answered before, but has just occurred to me:

Is there a scenario whereby we we are only found guilty of non co-operation but get stuck with the legal costs?

Did the CAS not fine us the 10 mil for non co-operation on the basis that we could have avoided the hearing by providing the requested evidence to UEFA (not withstanding our reasons for not doing so)?
 
Something that I am sure has been asked, and answered before, but has just occurred to me:

Is there a scenario whereby we we are only found guilty of non co-operation but get stuck with the legal costs?
It would largely depend on the extent, duration and any associated mitigation in relation to the non co-operation.

A costs award is often the most telling part of a determination. It’s a forum for an arbiter of fact to really stick the boot in, if they think it is warranted. Can often be utterly ruinous to the recipient.

Courts will usually shave quite a bit off the sum claimed. I’ll let others deduce why.

If a judge departs from that, then the recipient of that costs award has behaved like a ****.

If the PL have acted like cunts, then applying that principle, and the laws of natural justice, City should get most of their costs back.
 
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I have said it before so like a indigestion I will repeat myself. My view is that at the beginning the cartel and PL were the billy big bollocks thinking they could do anything regarding rules to keep themselves at the front of the trough. The APT case smashed that into little pieces. I have a feeling that if all the emails messages etc that City requested have been 'found' and handed over there could very well be some explosive material in there. Plus, I think City knew what they were looking for in these messages as they had already seen them before asking for them. My opinion, could be wrong though;-)
Dark matter
 
We went such a long time without a proper left back but finally fixed it but now we are repeating the mistake at right back.

That mistake we’re repeating did net us about 15 trophies.

People are acting like we can’t win trophies with a stand in fullback and the last 9 years shows that to be false.

I would feel more comfortable with Livramento or someone similar, but Pep wouldn’t go into the season with a squad he thought couldn’t win everything.
 
I have said it before so like a indigestion I will repeat myself. My view is that at the beginning the cartel and PL were the billy big bollocks thinking they could do anything regarding rules to keep themselves at the front of the trough. The APT case smashed that into little pieces. I have a feeling that if all the emails messages etc that City requested have been 'found' and handed over there could very well be some explosive material in there. Plus, I think City knew what they were looking for in these messages as they had already seen them before asking for them. My opinion, could be wrong though;-)

Makes perfect sense to me.
 

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