PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Keeper!]

I think it’s about time Khaldoon sat down with chris Bailey for a little chat to put a bit of meat on the bones of what we’re fighting here and how. Whilst there is at least some carcass to defend after the media Vultures have feasted!

Khaldoon will wait for his moment, this is not that time

 

[Burtonblue]

Don't even know what to make of this. Is there some kind of clause in Pep's contract that prevents us from defending ourselves from false allegations

No
It just means this will rumble on for years

 

[mexico1970]

Khaldoon will wait for his moment, this is not that time

I just hope in that meantime City ban the bastards in the press that are pushing this story and the CL one from the Etihad. We don't want yes men we want fair decent reporting not having rats in our house eating the free scones and murdering us in their rags for the benefit of the cartel.

We could at the very least do that.

 

[BlueMoonRisin’]

We need to raise to noise levels on sunday. A rousing rendition of "we're going down with a billion in the bank" will suffice nicely.

Fuck 'em.

 

[PeterBarnesShorts]

It’s amazing that all this boils down to a man not being allowed to spend his own money how he pleases so has had to (apparently) be creative with it.

This is the fundamental point that should’ve been fought from day one.No other industry in the world can stop an individual putting money in to help said business progress.It’s laughable and was only invented to stop us,simple as.At the same time,for the other 98% of football history in this country,teams could do pretty much anything they wanted to gain success and nobody would bat an eyelid,unless they actually went bust!Different landscape completely now,all down to City becoming wealthy. Utter f’kin shithouses…

 

[ONTHERUNWITHTHAKSIN]

I forgot to add. I told the fucker behind the counter that my son will have been to more City games than she’s been to united by the time he is 6. I lied about that, he’d done it by the time he was 3.

CITY TIL WE DIE

My kids tell the Rags at their school they have been to Wembley more times than they have been to the swamp

 

[dadnlad]

Worth noting despite being United’s manager and also being good (unfortunately), he is not a knobhead!!

I would not expect him to say too much, unlike people like Klopp etc. who will say I’m not saying anything but…

bingo funnily enough will know all about FFP and how it works after last week cliaming he didnt know the rules over chelsea's spending

 

[theres only one carlito]

Where is delia smith when you need her!

 

[Mr Fraser]

Wild guess

Richard masters ceo was effe

 

[Wigan_Citizen]

This feels very different to the UEFA episode. Make no bones about it this is a complete witch hunt. During the last legal battle the owners/club remained dignified and followed the legal advice by remaining quiet and reserved through the media. What concerns me with the PL charges - being so many of them - is that this is an outright attack on the very fabric of the club, the soul of our beloved City is under siege. The press have been briefed and have gone into full vulture mode. I simply cannot believe that our owners after following the highest paid advice about the business would be so stupid to flout the rules so blatantly.

For me the time has come to fight fire with fire. We must get in front of this today. This will not go away and we need something more than a paragraph or two stating surprise at timings etc. We need a blunt media briefing denying it all. We are a professionally run organisation but one thing has always irked me - our media & communications team are not the greatest. From getting players name to pictures wrong on the official website to most importantly a reserved approach to many journalistic whispers of how bad an oil run club is - we have been treated at times like the devil and yet not once have really gone at the media about it.

I really hope that we don't, through any appeals process, take a plea and accept even one or two charges taking a fine or a small point deduction. This is different to Juve or Rangers cases because we know any admission no matter how minor will stick with us forever. There are those who are fully determined to ruin our club and send us back to where they see we deserve to be. Any admission of guilt will stay and our success will always be tainted. For this reason alone the club if truly innocent, need to act.

They need to publicly make a statement denying it all. They need to infer that there are fractions behind these accusations. They need to call out the role of other clubs in trying to stop us. They need to state how the club have always been run and what positives have been achieved for the community. They need to remind many how they have not run the club through debt.

Of course if they have conducted the business in line with other organisations, accepted standard practices if you will that blur the lines of legality they need to call out their advisors and accountants that must be party to it. They must similarly call out other clubs who follow similar industry practices. Yes they may risk action against such accusations but as I said this is a co-ordinated attack on our soul.

I'm not a legal guy but one thing is clear any amount of shit sticks and they need to act to stop it now. They must not let the manager or the players have to be the face of their club. I'm sure many fans like me have been inundated with friends who follow other teams jumping all over this with wild insinuations - easy to ignore but not nice to defend from afar.

Finally I know they will try and keep the playing and business side separate but perhaps we will learn a bit from the Villa game. If as with the last UEFA attack they come out and play as if under a siege we will know the exact discussions between owners and team. If the play with apathy or a resignation of the inevitable we should all be worried. I have to think it will be the former. Pep himself has shown signs of fatigue in recent weeks so I just hope he's up for another fight against the integrity of our success.