PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[blueju]

If our team was shite and languishing in 10th for the past 10 years none of this Der Spiegel/UEFA/115/Shite press would have happened.

Fact.

And we hadn’t landed the worlds greatest manager ahead of the entitled ones.

 

[blueju]

Maybe they left the back doors in the rules for their golden teams to use if they had to?

Is that why the rags are desperately trying to get relegated?

 

[halfcenturyup]

Interestingly (to me, at least), @petrusha and I had a chat a while ago about how poorly written some of the PL rules were. Not in this context, but that makes it worse, not better.

Interestingly 2 (and only to me), I was writing last night about Mancini in my great tome on the PL's allegations. I quoted the actual rule the club is alleged to have breached and literally just wrote "the wording is important". Scary *Twilight Zone music*

 

[cheekybids]

Interestingly (to me, at least), @petrusha and I had a chat a while ago about how poorly written some of the PL rules were. Not in this context, but that makes it worse, not better.

Interestingly 2 (and only to me), I was writing last night about Mancini in my great tome on the PL's allegations. I quoted the actual rule the club is alleged to have breached and literally just wrote "the wording is important". Scary *Twilight Zone music*

After we’ve wiped the floor with them there should be a full & open enquiry.

I’d love to see Masters questioned about the motivations he had as the CEO to try & ruin clubs whilst stating he aim was to ensure clubs don’t get ruined.

 

[Newman Noggs]

This "Independent Commission", whose decision Leicester were appealing. Is this the same "independent commission", albeit with different members, we're in front of in September ? If so, that they ignored such an obvious flaw in the PL charges and went along with the PL's "interpretation" of the rules doesn't fill me with optimism, at least for the September hearing.

 

[halfcenturyup]

@slbsn Does this Leicester ruling put paid to any attempt by the PL of charging Chelsea, Everton, Villa et al for acting in bad faith, as the PL had threatened to do, for their end of season "swap" deals, or, for that matter for Chelsea's non-footballing asset sales? After all, there is nothing in the rules to stop them specifically, and the "spirit of the rules" argument seems to have gone out of the window.

Those swap deals can't be picked up by APT either, I don't think because the rules were so specifically written with a 5% common shareholding rule deliberately to exclude clubs in the PL transacting with each other?

It seems to me the PL is in a bit of a mess credibility-wise. Hopefully, City can heap some more pressure on with a favourable verdict in the APT case.

 

[halfcenturyup]

This "Independent Commission", whose decision Leicester were appealing. Is this the same "independent commission", albeit with different members, we're in front of in September ? If so, that they ignored such an obvious flaw in the PL charges and went along with the PL's "interpretation" of the rules doesn't fill me with optimism, at least for the September hearing.

Yes. But what should give you confidence is the appeal process which worked in Leicester's favour. Completely unexpectedly. It's a game of 90 minutes don't forget. You get nothing for winning at half-time.

Iirc, the appeals panels are chosen from a different pool of experts, probably more experienced. It's a good thing they know they can reverse the original panel's verdict. I would imagine we are heading that way if we get an unfavourable outcome this time. So it bodes well, I think.

 

[blueju]

I didn't understand at the time that Leicester were charged by the pl. How can the pl charge a club with breaking pl rules when the club isn't in the pl ?

If they had half a clue they’d have read their own rules first then waited for Leicester to come back up, then hit them.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

After we’ve wiped the floor with them there should be a full & open enquiry.

I’d love to see Masters questioned about the motivations he had as the CEO to try & ruin clubs whilst stating he aim was to ensure clubs don’t get ruined.

This is the key point. Leicester didn’t go bust. They invested money in their business to try and get back to the PL. it was a smart decision.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

After we’ve wiped the floor with them there should be a full & open enquiry.

I’d love to see Masters questioned about the motivations he had as the CEO to try & ruin clubs whilst stating he aim was to ensure clubs don’t get ruined.

Masters will be long gone, with an NDA in the bag, before there’s any chance for an enquiry. If/when we are cleared his position will be completely untenable.

It’s telling that no-one in the press appears to have raised this turn of event as a possibility, or moreover asked it of him directly.