PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Victorinodennistua]

Rousing, but disturbingly defeatist at the same time Lav.

Relax guys we’ve got a proper run club. Not your American Mickey Mouse ownership shite. They are not going to go back in their Time Machine to remove Jack all. It’ll all be historic petty bullshit like you’re selling Yorkshire tea on match days when actually we’ve found out it was Ty-phoo. 100 breaches of utter nonsense.

 

[BeerIsTheBest]

I’ve always believed that part of our passive approach to the years of racist and cheating type jibes is that to have legally challenged someone / a business entity like a paper or whatever could have resulted in a court case where info would be requested and disclosed.
If we clear the decks and prevail successfully against the 100+ charges perhaps our attitude will stiffen and we start to wipe the insidious bastards out when they step out of line.

 

[Lavinda Past]

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.

The whole crowd should sing "No-one likes us, we don't care" non-stop, from kick off to final whistle.

 

[J.G.Blue.]

Just seen that. Is this bollocks below true? If so prepare for everyone looking to fuck us over.

“The Premier League's most severe punishment in these circumstances would be to expel City and it has been reported that the English Football League would be under no obligation to accept them.”

"Blue Moon, You saw us standing alone"

 

[Saddleworth2]

It won't be allowed to go quickly, that's the issue.

It's a win-win for the Premier League and the lobbying clubs.

It's a guilty verdict in the first instance, barring City having a strong set of recordings or emails showing this is a witch hunt and irrefutable.

At the very least, they and our rivals know we would appeal until which time we exhaust every avenue up to the High Court.

In the interim, it materially damages us both on and off the pitch. Players we are interested in might look elsewhere, players we have, might demand to move elsewhere.

Commercially, we would be off limits to pretty much everyone but our Abu Dhabi partners.

The timing also conveniently addresses the white paper delay and comes as we still battle for three trophies.

We win something, it is further smeared.

We don't win anything, it has also played its part.

It would be a transfer ban in all but name and clubs such as Chelsea and Arsenal can crack on, while United and Liverpool become more attractive to investors because City's competitiveness is diminished.

Clear and orchestrated, which is why at the very least, it will be medium to short term pain until we clear our name.

We will lose the battle but win the war. Perhaps our rivals are more than comfortable with that.

We must have some right of recourse that will inflict pain on those that would destroy us. You describe exactly what is going to happen. We are diminished for at least the next three seasons. There has to be something the club can do other than follow a process that is controlled by our enemies. If we have anything on these other clubs then its time to use it.

 

[Saddleworth2]

"Blue Moon, You saw us standing alone"

We will still have the CFG cup.

 

[halfcenturyup]

ADUG, the owner of Manchester City, did provide money for Etihad to pay their sponsorship.

The problem for UEFA is that's not inflating the value of the sponsorship, which is what they accused City of.

Are you sure ADUG provided money to Etihad? Can you point me to that conclusion in the CAS award?

 

[bluemoon32]

No we shouldnt , it might land us in hot water legally wise , we fight battles on advice of our legal team

Yep and not on the advice of our accounting team ha

 

[Dribble]

Only counter point was how we bounced through UEFA bullshit and jogged on, champions twice over.

This is the only issue I now have with the club. UEFA/G14 & The PL Hateful Eight won't stop.

The time has come to stop defending ourselves & get back to the fundamental issue... In what other sector of business is an owner NOT ALLOWED to invest their own money? It's this which has forced us into the financial gymnastics needed to grow our business.

If you're worth Billions & your business needs a £100m investment, why are you only allowed to inject the funds via a commercial bank loan with all the associated compound interest, & not from your own legally acquired, tax cleared funds?

These "Accusations" (not charges because no legal statutory government bodies are involved), are a Strawman to deflect everyone from the bullshit FFP brought in purely to stop City.

Fuck the lot of em! FFP itself should be our main focus of attack. Defend ourselves of these accusations yes, BUT we should also kick-start the process of reviewing the legality of FFP in terms of anti-competition laws.

Let's call for FFP style regulation to be applied right across UK industry & let's see how quickly it gets fucked off! Why should football be treated as a special case?

Enough is enough... It's bovver boots on, & gloves off time! :-/

 

[Metalartin]

The thing is, nothing will happen to the PL if they are proved wrong. They aren't going to punish themselves for the reputational damage, financial impact and disruption it causes Manchester City, for however long this drags on for. Unless the government steps in, but how likely is that in all honesty?