PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Mancini’s Pastilles]

After all day of listening to and seeing on social media not one congratulations but all the usual comments but even worse degrading our club the damage is done to our reputation and if we are innocent i hope we take the entire league down. No working with PL for best outcome. Take them to cleaners, the damage they have done is irreparable. So no working with PL or helping PL save face just destroy them

 

[Tevez City]

 

[Vic]

I can see a scenario where the City come out of this as clean as a whistle but give the PL a way out.

Basically the PL could withdraw the case and issue a statement saying that having now reviewed the body of evidence supplied by the club it is clear that we have complied with the rules and there is no evidence of anything to back up the charges laid against us, however this has only come to light after the club provided the documents required to undertake the investigation. While the club withheld these document on following legal advise, If the club had provided this evidence in a more timely manner then the decision to charge the club would never have been made.

As such a fine of £**** has been applied for None co-operation only, and the PL reiterate that their was no evidence of any wrongdoing other than failure to provide documentation in a timely manner.

And we are now writing to every PL club asking them to submit any document that might show whether or not they have complied with all the PL rules.

 

[Delboy352]

Pep can answer all of them by:
1. Winning the double double (never done before)
2. Winning 5 in a row, unbeaten with over 100 points (never been done before)

Already has
1. Pure treble (We won the league the season before, unlike the other wankers)
2. Centurions
3. Most goals in a season
4. Domestic quadruple
5. 5 trophies in a calendar year/season

That would complete the bingo card…

 

[halfcenturyup]

Nothing like rehashed news , ay?

There’s no proof that these talks took place, anyone could make it up.

Just the Foreign Office and an embassy doing their jobs.

 

[halfcenturyup]

It's been a few weeks since the Tolmie and Prestige Cars tweets that the PL case had collapsed and that both parties were negotiating an exit strategy. In that time there has been absolutely nothing from a mainstream journo saying the same.

It would be a huge scoop for anyone that got it out there first but the fact that no-one else higher up the media food chain has got hold of it leads me to think that it's not actually true..... unfortunately :(

It could get well be true.

There isn't a good way for the PL to get out of this and no-one knows anything for a fact. Do it's up to each of us to decide which information we are happy to believe.

 

[halfcenturyup]

That's a good thread, actually.

 

[blue for life]

I love this nobody cares about City attitude from the bitters yet they can’t stop talking about us. If we are cleared it will be the greatest day in our history and I for one will be going for the jugular with the twats!

 

[KS55]

I love this nobody cares about City attitude from the bitters yet they can’t stop talking about us. If we are cleared it will be the greatest day in our history and I for one will be going for the jugular with the twats!

Armageddon awaits.

 

[manimanc]

I know I'm pissing in the wind with this, but I'd love someone to give me a coherent and rational explanation of how exactly these alleged breaches, which only go up to 2018, have an impact on how Pep sets his team up, and the technical mastery & genius of players like Rodri, KDB & Foden? What's the linkage between those payments to Mancini in 2010-2013 and Foden's 20 yeard screamer yesterday?

The only remotely rational linkage I've seen is that if we'd had points deducted, we wouldn't have won the league. But even a points deduction is separate to our on-field performances. Are Everton a worse team due to their 8-point deduction? If we'd had points deducted 2 seasons ago, would that diminish our achievement in the last 2 seasons?

And when (not if) we are cleared of the substantive breaches, will the media pack change their tune and acknowledge that we achieved what we did largely thanks to Pep's genius as aa coach, or will they still be trotting out the lines that we got off on a technicality, spent more on lawyers or be going through the PL IC's detailed verdict with a fine-toothed comb looking for any morsel that might support their view that we were guilty of something, regardless of how tricial that was?

It's along the same lines as the rags or should I say Gary Neville blaming the glazers everytime utd get beat.