PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Fordyboy46]

And then set off on a £300m expansion / improvement of the Etihad campus

Exactly, there's no way we'd have gone ahead with that development if we knew we were getting the book thrown at us

 

[Fordyboy46]

Anyway, this is going to be mind numbing for the next few months, let's just concentrate on the actual football

 

[Didsbury Dave]

Whenever you have a moment of doubt just tell yourself this, since our owners came they have hired the best in every area to carry out their plan and brought about a team the likes of which the pl has never seen before and they did all that with a cartel trying every dirty trick in the book to try and stop them, why would they not do exactly what theyve done all along now.

If you want even further clarification our owners can point to 12 years of success for evidence of our owners keeping their word, the pl can point to richard masters a man with so little self respect he took a job that 4 much better qualified candidates publicly rejected.

They didn’t hire the very best in IT because we got hacked and that’s what got us here in the first place.

 

[thelostoasismember]

For me Red Cartel twats just can stand City is winning trophies non stop. If City would be managed like Spurs so around 3-8, nobody would be even interested in us. For me this process is a joke from Red Cartel with their aggression in the offices but the truth is they have no real proves. All this stupid journalists, Magic Hat, literally what a cabaret it is.

 

[deano ou812]

Has any sports team. Organisation. Country! Ever received as much one sided negative media coverage as this? Had nothing but giddy texts off rags today convinced were toast. The media have whipped them into a frenzy!

Yip same as when it came to us with the UEFA/CAS hearing the media had uefa as an upstanding organisation,compare that when the red scousers were looking compensation from UEFA over the champions league final the media portrayed UEFA as a corrupt and dishonest organisation..

 

[Goatmeal]

irrefutable
impossible to deny or disprove.

 

[JewelZee]

We've got weeks of it as well.
Think it might be better watching the lefties and righties arguing on the politics thread until the verdict comes in

You really are a glutton for punishment, lol...

 

[uwerosler28]

Where I'm a bit confused is how anything that was already adjudicated in our favor at CAS, which is the highest court in Europe regarding matters of sport, can be presented again. How is this not considered double jeopardy or does that not exist in the UK? If that's the case I apologize in advance for not knowing this...

CAS were arbritating over Uefas charges against us and possible champions league ban, this hearing is for the Premier leagues accusations.

 

[ancoats]

Let me just get this straight, The Premier League are calling Khaldoon al Mubarak and Sheikh Mansour and the Abu Dhabi Royal family Cheats, If I am wrong then, please explain what else is it saying, We are talking about one hell of a claim and maybe it's bigger than World Football and Manchester City football club,

This brings into account a Royal Family with connections to many other Royal Families with a status and reputation they hold very highly,

The Premier League is finished and all the other clubs calling our owners cheats under its umbrella should be scared,
I believe Khaldoon al Mubarak and Sheikh Mansour and the Abu Dhabi Royal family will not take this lightly and will demand the UK government and the Royal Family get this sorted once and for all,

As I said it is bigger than just football and the Premier League, Many other things will be taken into account and we are talking about major investments in all sorts of other things outside of football.

 

[Coatigan]

As it happens a) I don't think that will work b) won't be our defence. I suspect they will say they did disclose and cooperate fully and hope that they if they have won on the substantive charges, the Panel will be onside. If they have lost on the substantive, it will be largely irrelevant (albeit an aggravating factor potentially)

No idea what would or wouldn't be our defence, but worth noting we are not charged with non-cooperation for the years investigated. We are charged for the years not investigated. We have presumably cooperated with the investigation.

If it turns out we are innocent, then there is logic in there not being any need for further investigation, and then no non-cooperation. Whether the panel decide that is not the club's right to decide is another matter.