PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[moggymoz]

How much is Lord Panic making?

Does it fuckin matter.

 

[Indaparkside]

Just in case I’ve applied already

 

[Inter Me Nan]

That’s true. And guess when the derby is? Mid December. Expect an avalanche of leaks, lies, and conjecture in the run up to it. “This could be the last derby at the ground for many years” etc etc.

And then we win the case.

And the derby.

 

[bluedanza]

I’ve got one of them.. have considered sticking this image on a T-shirt!

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

And the derby.

God wills it.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Who are we thinking Alex Trevelyan is? A poster on here?

For City, James!

 

[balotelli's back pocket]

"If found guilty of the most serious charges, City would risk being forever associated with one of the biggest financial scandals in sport. City could, in theory, face a points deduction serious enough to condemn them to relegation - or even expulsion - from the Premier League.

Such a fate would cast a long shadow over City's achievements, plunge the future of the manager and squad into uncertainty, and possibly spark claims for compensation from other clubs. It has been suggested that such a stain on the reputation of City and the club's owners could even affect Britain's relationship with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a key Gulf ally and trading partner - whose president is the brother of the club’s majority owner Sheikh Mansour.

Equally, if City are cleared following a legal battle that is already thought to have cost both sides tens of millions of pounds, the viability of rules intended to safeguard the league's sustainability and competitiveness will be in grave doubt."

Dan Roan basically saying the quiet part out loud. If we lose, we're guilty - points deductions, expulsion, titles stripped, compensation. The destruction of a football club.

But if we're cleared, it's a bad thing for 'the league's sustainability and competitiveness'. No mention of the damage caused to our reputation, of course.

Win or lose, we're the ones in the wrong.

Twat.

 

[Fordyboy46]

First question from the slimy rag **** Stone tomorrow, " Hi Pep, is it a relief that the case regarding the 115 charges will be starting next week".
Either him or some other ****!

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

"If found guilty of the most serious charges, City would risk being forever associated with one of the biggest financial scandals in sport. City could, in theory, face a points deduction serious enough to condemn them to relegation - or even expulsion - from the Premier League.

Such a fate would cast a long shadow over City's achievements, plunge the future of the manager and squad into uncertainty, and possibly spark claims for compensation from other clubs. It has been suggested that such a stain on the reputation of City and the club's owners could even affect Britain's relationship with the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a key Gulf ally and trading partner - whose president is the brother of the club’s majority owner Sheikh Mansour.

Equally, if City are cleared following a legal battle that is already thought to have cost both sides tens of millions of pounds, the viability of rules intended to safeguard the league's sustainability and competitiveness will be in grave doubt."

Dan Roan basically saying the quiet part out loud. If we lose, we're guilty - points deductions, expulsion, titles stripped, compensation. The destruction of a football club.

But if we're cleared, it's a bad thing for 'the league's sustainability and competitiveness'. No mention of the damage caused to our reputation, of course.

Win or lose, we're the ones in the wrong.

Twat.

He really is an odious person. Always had a clear agenda against us. Yet strangely never a peep against utd or Liverpool. The day the bbc cease to exist I will raise a glass.

He's really gone to town hasn't he. No mention of if we are vindicated and cleared that we will still have had our reputation damaged by not onlybthe PL but the likes of him and his ilk.

Strange no mention of the special deals utd get, from the PL to allow them to pass PSR.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Let's just remind ourselves of one of the key charges, which (to pick one year, 2012/13) involves Rule E3. This rule says:

"Each club shall by 1st March in each season submit to the Secretary a copy of its annual accounts.......(such accounts to be prepared and audited in accordance with applicable legal & regulatory requirements) together with a copy of the Directors' Report for that year and a copy of the auditors' report on those accounts."

I've missed a bit in the middle out but that's the rule - to submit audited accounts for the prior year by March 1st of the following year. So unless we didn't do that (which is highly, highly unlikely) then the IC simply can't find us to have breached that rule. There's nothing in E3 about accuracy, or anything else, and as we saw from the Leicester appeal, the PL can't rely on a defence of "Well what we really meant was...."

If we submitted properly prepared accounts, then we aren't in breach of Rule E3.

There's also the rule about acting in utmost good faith. If we took good legal and financial advice to ensure we acted properly, then how could we not have acted in utmost good faith? I reckon at least half the charges will have gone out of the window by the end of the month.