PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

In his daily mail piece but it’s behind a paywall so someone would need to post the article using a remover.

What’s going on with the 115 charges?

Well, how many times have the jungle drums been beating towards an imminent decision now? At least three since February. And they’ve become louder and louder this month.

It’s coming, clearly. Largely because the Premier League cannot go on for much longer without clarity over such a seismic hearing involving its most successful club over the last decade.

The thing I’ve noticed on making calls around the hearing has been that wildly different outcomes and timeframes can be presented as fact, depending on who you talk to. Which can be the case on countless topics, but is particularly pronounced with this. It’s been an incredibly tough story to pick your way through.

City's stance remains the same: they will clear their name.

 
Dickie Masters comes from a sales & marketing background & I’ve worked for a CEO who came from that, previously others I’d worked for were primarily from engineering, finance or science. The difference in detail, risk was astonishing. Lost many legal cases against advice including to myself & only wanted to be surrounded by yes men/women. Called anyone who advised against unrealistic plans as blockers & took it to receivership as the infrastructure would not support the growth without huge investment in operational infrastructure. They’d only considered the production equipment, not technology, energy, space, foundations.

The other consideration is that maybe they felt the cartel clubs would jump to a super league & a lengthy expensive legal case keeps them happy & buys you time.

The level of competency was displayed with the release of charges littered with errors.
For many years I worked for a large organisation with more than 30,000 staff. A new CEO came in. He destroyed the business within five years after pushing through a series of totally insane ideas. He surrounded himself with yes men and sycophants and got rid of anyone who challenged him. The company later went bust. He was a former public schoolboy and Oxbridge man who appeared to have no skills at all. This happens quite a lot in the UK business world.
 

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