PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

norman said:
At the risk of outing myself as thick as fuck, I struggle with the notion that preposterous charges have been brought by the EPL who must have sought the advice of competent lawyers before they did so. Genuine question to you - do you believe the EPL lawyers are thick as fuck also, or is it the case that the charges were issued by the EPL against legal advice?
For what it’s worth I trust Khaldoon‘s irrefutable evidence statement but as I say it seems virtually unthinkable that any responsible organisation would issue proceedings of such magnitude knowing such proceedings were doomed to fail
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Well weve been through this already, did Uefa not realises there case was time barred? Everyone on here knew that but there lawyers didnt?
 
Gorton_Tubster said:
What if the charges were designed to just smear City? IE they (Like UEFA) know they will fail but the damage to the brand is the target.

Edit. So yes, against advice would be the implication. And from what I have heard from experts viewpoints - Why have the PL over reached themselves on this case so much

Of course that could all be bullshit if the PL do have something no one knows about.
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I don't think the PL wanted to smear us, but some almighty pressure must have been applied to them by whoever did want to. Other PL clubs would be the beneficiaries of such a tactic no one else really, only lawyers.
 
norman said:
Just to smear City is a possibility I suppose but if correct it stinks to high heaven and suggests a total lack of thinking things through by the EPL.
If they do have evidence no one yet knows about (which i think highly unlikely) then City must be grandstanding in their protestations of innocence.
Another possibility is that they (EPL) set in motion a fishing expedition which City sought (unsuccessfully as it turned out) to squash hence the application to the commercial court. Stefan, on Twitter, expressses the view that City were, perhaps, ill advised to challenge the PL panel’s jurisdiction and/or objectivity or lack of it. It gave the media the excuse to accuse City of deliberate delaying tactics.
Incidentally in the published judgement, which both City and the PL would have preferred to keep private, one of City’s objections to its publication was the potentially detrimental effect on obtaining potential sponsors. In her reasons for ordering the judgement to be published the judge made the point that any would be sponsor could/would carry out due diligence before committing to sponsorship and since then City have taken on board mainstream sponsors (Kellogg I seem to recall) so that seems to give cause for optimism. Then again any new sponsorship agreement may have a conditional get out clause in the event City are found in breach.
it just goes round and round in my brain and I just wish the whole mess could be put to rest because there is little doubt that until that happens it’s open season on City baiting which is hard for us blues to continue to endure
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We're hated because we're the one's winning everything, it's human nature so get used to it or find something else to do.
 
77lost by a point said:
Those rags odds look very tempting
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Lots of idiots have been lumping money on City getting relegated because they are convinced we're guilty of the 115 charges therefore the bookies are covering their very remote chances of that happening hence the short odds. The bookies will keep shortening their odds as to them it's like taking candy from a baby.

If those idiots continue place more money on the remote chance us being relegated next season on their hope of us being found guilty then surely we will be the only club ever to be favourites to win the league and favourites to be relegated in the same season. Another first for City
 
bigA said:
Lots of idiots have been lumping money on City getting relegated because they are convinced we're guilty of the 115 charges therefore the bookies are covering their very remote chances of that happening hence the short odds. The bookies will keep shortening their odds as to them it's like taking candy from a baby.

If those idiots continue place more money on the remote chance us being relegated next season on their hope of us being found guilty then surely we will be the only club ever to be favourites to win the league and favourites to be relegated in the same season. Another first for City
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Could history repeat itself? Champions in 1937 and relegated in 1938
 
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