PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Moss Side's Finest]

Here's something I've wondered for a while when noting the controversy around our Etihad deal.

Regarding the rags Chevrolet sponsorship, considering the enormity of the deal ($559m) and the fact that there was an internal investigation at Chevrolet as to why their marketing exec literally fiddled the books to hide the deal amount from his bosses (because they thought it was a waste of money - and he was subsequently fired). How come the Premier League to this day has never considered looking into this deal? Especially as it was considered by many external experts as being WAY WAY over market value (considering 'soccer' wasn't huge in the US and Chevrolet weren't, and still aren’t big in the UK).

Also, while Etihad ended up sponsoring the best club on the planet for their money. Chevrolet sponsored the rags through seasons of dross for their $559m.

Whistleblower on giant Man United deal 'cost marketer his job at GM'

Marketing chief Joel Ewanick was ousted from General Motors for not properly disclosing as much as a third of the cost of the Manchester United $559 million soccer deal, according to Bloomberg Business Week.

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[tolmie's hairdoo]

and will take six weeks which means, if correct, that @tolmie's hairdoo was right about the decision being this year.

Let’s hope the rest of his info was also bang on.

It is.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Six weeks is more than enough. Written submissions will have been issued in advance.

Merry Christmas.

 

[JGL07]

Here's something I've wondered for a while when noting the controversy around our Etihad deal.

Considering the enormity of the deal ($599m) and the fact that there was an internal investigation at Chevrolet as to why their marketing exec literally fiddled the books to hide the deal amount from his bosses because they thought it was a waste of money (and he was subsequently fired). How come the Premier League to this day has never considered looking into this deal? Especially as it was considered by many external experts as being WAY WAY over valued (considering 'soccer' wasn't huge in the US and Chevrolet weren't, and aren’t still, big in the UK).

I don't think that Chevrolet even sold cars in the UK at that time. Any GM cars sold would be badged as other marques from the group.

 

[granata1949]

As a city fan in Kyiv (Salford born) it's all nonsense. Little Citeh challenged the red order. And that's it. They changed the rules to stop us. Enjoy the ride. Who cares how many fans we have worldwide. We kept the faith through dark times. Everyone's second team once upon a time. We love city. Are city and will always be city. The rags sold their soul when the premier league started. We kept ours. Still have ours. And fundamentally they dislike this. Because we stuck two fingers up to the rag/Liverpool love in and stuck to what we are. City fans. Trust our owners. And if all goes tits up, I will still say I am from Manchester and support city. No apologies needed. Be proud. Be loud. And I wish I was still there.

 

[domalino]

Six weeks seems a very short amount of time to hear our case.

They managed to try Harold Shipman in 2 months I suspect 6 weeks is plenty for this.

CAS was 3 days.


The big wait is for the judgment anyway.

 

[Keeganagainstunited]

Go City....the entire toon army are right behind you. Its us v the Cartel they made illegal rules to cut our legs off. Delighted you stood up to them

 

[KS55]

They managed to try Harold Shipman in 2 months I suspect 6 weeks is plenty for this.

CAS was 3 days.


The big wait is for the judgment anyway.

If I understood the reports right, when we made our submission to CAS, it was obvious within the first hour that UEFA were losing badly.
No reason that there won’t be a repeat.

 

[eastmanc]

If I understood the reports right, when we made our submission to CAS, it was obvious within the first hour that UEFA were losing badly.
No reason that there won’t be a repeat.

Let's hope so.

 

[supercity88]

They managed to try Harold Shipman in 2 months I suspect 6 weeks is plenty for this.

CAS was 3 days.


The big wait is for the judgment anyway.

CAS then took a month to issue their decision. I can't see why it would be anywhere near 6 weeks in this case. Whilst there are a lot more charges, that's due to the number of seasons they apply to. It's worth noting that the 115 charges may well be reduced by the time we get to a hearing. The parties will be sharing information, agreeing statements of common ground and dropping allegations that are dealt with during the written submission stage. I would anticipate a couple of weeks for the hearing and then a month for a verdict.

The charges are rule breaches across a number of seasons and our evidence is largely through our accounts. To get to the bottom of the majority will be as simple as reading through the evidence provided. At the hearing you would expect the sponsorship matter to be dealt with, as it was with CAS and our suits to turn up and bat that one out of the park. I don't know what else really needs to be extensively discussed at a hearing otherwise.

And the verdict would equally be quite simple because you'd go via rule breach and uphold/dismiss in mass rather than by individual season in the majority of instances.

Undoubtedly if it does take 2-3 weeks instead of the 6 that's been earmarked, we'll get a mix of "that means it went well" or "that means it went badly" before @tolmie's hairdoo drops a bomb on twitter about Khaldoon walking out cock in hand throwing £20s at the hoards of journalists outside.