PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Am I being too cynical that we're going to be found guilty on all charges to cause maximum 'bad press' and drag our name through the mud as much as possible only for the appeal mob to chuck everything out?

They'd not get the result they wanted but would cause maximum disruption.
 
It would be lovely to see those communications but, unfortunately, they'll be subject to legal privilege and won't be disclosed.

That’s a bummer. Without disclosing the whole emails would the general jist of it be included in the summary.
 
Am I being too cynical that we're going to be found guilty on all charges to cause maximum 'bad press' and drag our name through the mud as much as possible only for the appeal mob to chuck everything out?

They'd not get the result they wanted but would cause maximum disruption.
Alternatively it could lead to the IC undertaking a more detailed scrutiny of the wording of the rules we're alleged to have broken to avoid looking foolish on appeal.
 
Unless I'm missing something the biggest take away is that the independent commission aren't afraid to side against the PL. Which is hopefully a good sign.

As for the approach LCFC used to defeat the charges, it would still be described as City getting off on a technicality again
Our detractors described UEFA having no evidence as "a technicality".
 
tbf, they could hardly say they welcomed the determination and were expecting it!
They should have just abided by the decision. That’s the whole point of an independent panel. Why is the PL leadership at war with its own members? It is supposed to be a neutral administrator. The process has been corrupted.
 
Our detractors described UEFA having no evidence as "a technicality".
everything is a technicality, i mean technically masters is head of the pl despite all evidence pointing to the contrary, technically the rags are a football team despite overwhelming evidence suggesting that they are an overbloated marketing company leeching off the stupid.
 
Of the three psr cases so far the Premier League has got it wrong on two resulting in reduced punishments or thrown out completely.

Every case is different and has its own dynamics, however there seems to be a trend of the Premier League being incompetent in interpreting its own rules. There seems to be grey areas of whether it’s rules are actually legal and they can’t even do the basics right of issuing a press release notifying what City’s charges were back in February 2023.

Questions need to be asked whether the people running top level football in this country are fit for purpose and whose interests are they actually vested in. The press won’t because they have their gravy train to ride on of teams who play in red.

City’s case now cannot come soon enough, I fully expect the clubs legal team to rip the PL a new one.
 

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