PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[SouthStandStander]

Id imagine City will publicly nail their colours to the mast in regard to the need for an independent regulator for the Premier League. Highlighting the bias and corruption that exists in its current format and makeup.

Once this is all all done and dusted and we are exonerated, id love for City to sue each and every one of the hateful 8 for the reputational damage they have caused us over the past few years.

It would be so good, so so good!

 

[mexico1970]

I'm convinced that whoever is actually behind all this will not stop until they get something to stick.

That's why I honestly think that they'll be aiming to come down on City like a ton of bricks, even if there's only one charged proved.

We must not ignore the possibility that the owners are bent and have been dodging responsibility.

Like it or not, although we don't want to even entertain that possibility, if they have knowingly broken rules, they will deserve punishment. The same applies to every club.

It's us punters who suffer the most - genuine fans who won't want or be able to just shrug their shoulders and move on to the next new toy.

The ball is in Khaldoon's court. It's time for another fight. If we win, we can but hope that it sees the end of the morally bankrupt Premier League, and a change of structure.

Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

Our owners have probably been as "At it" as all the other clubs have, you've got to be very naive to think otherwise.

This instance reminds me very much of the military in as much as if they want a charge to stick they will find one to stick, the fact they have gone above and beyond the call of duty to find something insignificant to stick has no bearing on your guilt.

 

[Dribble]

But Chelsea got 1.6b off Abramovich as an interest free loan and Leicester have just written off nearly 200m.

Isn't there an FFP ruling that loans must come from a registered financial institution?

This is why the loans written off by Leicester & Chelsea muddy the FFP waters, & why it begs the question why City didn't opt for this much simpler solution? I'd hazard a guess it's because we can't. If so, then how can Leicester & Chelsea?

Tomorrow Manchester City Football Club announce a £5bn refinancing loan from Sheikh Mansour... What happens next?

 

[Bluebottle]

So just to summarise the protagonists in this new Sky drama....
G14/18 - the clubs who have been trying to hang City since 2009 as we have been unashamedly stealing their money and winning some of their trophies
The Premier League - (pressured mainly by the Big Red 3 in english football) who at the distant fluttering of a white paper have taken the stance of "Fuck it lads whats the worst that could happen if it doesnt work" knowing full well that should an independent arbiter come in no-one is going to look backwards at their actions and hold them to account if claims prove scurrilous
SSN - the very image of balanced journalism currently devoting 59 minutes per hour to '(if) theyre found guilty what would happen and here are all the charges again and our speculation what they mean" AND the other minute per hour to 'btw city said they didnt do it' (raised intonation and eyebrows). Now excitedly reporting 'city could be relegated' as they count the viewing figures for their Championship product next season
City - the lottery winner recently cleared of nearly all of the similar charges brought now by CAS when G14/18 told uefa to 'go get city'

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Agreed Tolm…..after booing the living shit out of that PL jingle, Pep and the lads will be getting the best support I can give from CB1, that’s if I don’t spot any press wankers, on that note we could definitely do with a wanted poster for some of em, or a deck of cards like the Americans did with Saddam etc

I've still got one of those decks of cards in the back of my wardrobe somewhere...

 

[Lavinda Past]

I hope not, I want to see the mother of all meltdowns on rawk.

"Not in my lifetime" - J Klopp

 

[mimicmickmickdoyle]

Don't know if it's been mentioned anywhere else, but if we are found guilty and banged to rights,then Manchester City FC will have let the fans down big time ,the shit I'm getting now will be nothing to what's to come, Please please City and the lawyers show the fuckers up for what they are, BENT BASTARDS.

 

[mexico1970]

Really!? When do you think would be, in another week or two when the media have ripped us to bits and all the fans have is a short statement on the clubs website? hardly churchillian rousing of our support to galvanise us against this continuing shite is it. Plus pep will cop for the full force in every presser, that isn’t fair.

I haven't seen anything approaching rousing since all of this began in 2008. Very business like and all the while feeding our detractors tea and biscuits.

 

[Indaparkside]

This thread will beat the Covid one by the time it’s resolved

 

[Keeper!]

Really!? When do you think would be, in another week or two when the media have ripped us to bits and all the fans have is a short statement on the clubs website? hardly churchillian rousing of our support to galvanise us against this continuing shite is it. Plus pep will cop for the full force in every presser, that isn’t fair.

When we are 100% cleared and innocent, that will be our moment, that will be the time to have our say.

Great things come to those that wait.