PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Kinkladze's crazy skills]

It’s okay for Ineos to have multiple sponsors for the same club but it’s corrupt when Etihad sponsor Girona

If you question sponsors maybe Leicester's title win needs to be scrutinised too, literally everything at that club was sponsored to the hilt by King Power.

Leicester were well within their rights though to prop the club up in my opinion and give their company great exposure simultaneously, unlike us though it's very unlikely they'd have raised decent money or anywhere near as much money without King Power's help, there should be no issue with this in the slightest it's all okay what they did and us too.
It's ridiculous to suggest clubs shouldn't be allowed to invest in themselves long term it destroys competition, FFP needs ditching asap as without it in place I'm pretty sure Newcastle would've pushed on and qualified for next season's UCL too.

With our sponsorship our owners wanted to give Etihad Airways the maximum exposure possible, with them nobody particularly knew of them before they sponsored us but they've had their name splashed alongside our success. Now they're a massive worldwide name in aviation rather than a massive regional airline, Emirates Airlines also had the exact same motives when sponsoring Arsenal for similar exposure, it's funny how it's not Arab money when it concerns the redshirt brigade cos without Emirates money Arsenal could've struggled.

With Leicester and King Power in their case (not sure where allegations went) as a company they've also been accused of major corruption, so by the flawed logic the freaks who carry on about us have used in the last decade they should ask whether the magic of Leicester's title win has been tainted, not that it has or should be in question it's far from tainted for me but we all know what I'm getting at.

There's many examples of shareholders propping clubs up they've invested in like Bayern and Juve, just like Ineos with Nice or the rags I'm sure in the near future I'm sure they'll help out and then there's King Power propping up Leicester, there's an extreme case of double standards everywhere you look when it comes to our owners and everyone else's.

Everything becomes a lot more scrutinised with us, they hate we've muscled in on the redshirt brigade.

 

[jimharri]

There aren’t 250 people in Lymm!

Aren't they all millionaires over there?

 

[Kinkladze's crazy skills]

He best buy an extra chalk so he can write not in between the charge number & "not" guilty.

(:

 

[StillBluessinceHydeRoad]

If the PL are after a dignified way out, then the inability to conduct a 'fair trial' due to media speculation might allow them to save face and pretend to be competent.

It wouldn't suit City and I think Khaldoon might really open fire.

 

[Protein Junkie]

There aren’t 250 people in Lymm!

I think Dave Whelan lived there or I may have the wrong story.

 

[Metal Biker]

He best buy an extra chalk so he can write not in between the charge number & "not" guilty.

(:

Fucker needs to learn how to spell, first.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

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They are in separate paragraphs, unless I am missing something?

You're quite right. I really hadn't noticed that before.

 

[cibaman]

Clearly, I am not an auditor, but I am intrigued by the level of scrutiny they applied to City's accounts. So for example, on dd/mm/yyyy City's bank account received a payment in for £40M. Presumably the auditors query this either via email or in person, whatever. And the City accounts person replies "Oh that was a sponsorship payment from Ethihad Airways". Is that the end of the conversation ? the BDO person just says "thanks for that, moving on, next item..."
FFS there must be more scrutiny than that ?. We have never seen ANY leaked emails between City and BDO. Why might that be ?.

I’m sure City would accept that the pattern of cash flows between Etihad and the club were unusual. Certainly unusual enough to arouse the interest of the most tame auditors. City were able to explain the cash flows to the satisfaction of CAS. I’m sure they would have been asked similar, or more searching, questions by BDO

 

[Big mals fedora]

I think Dave Whelan lived there or I may have the wrong story.

I heard he broke a peg while putting out his washing

 

[Paladin]

Aren't they all millionaires over there?

Haha. Not me. It's quite affluent, but there are a couple of council houses somewhere in the village I believe. We had a Netto once, but we voted it it out and got a Sainsbury's instead. Sooty's dad (Matthew Corbett) used to live here. I think Chris Bisson lives here, and some has been pop star.