PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[manimanc]

Water isn’t wet though.

Ha ha I've seen this discussion on here before.

I'm out.

 

[cheekybids]

Again it doesn't change my outlook. I'd expect a business as usual approach regardless. Club confidence, investment in infrastructure, it's just noise imo. It'll be a long hearing and the PL have a mountain to climb to prove guilt, they may do so but we'll see.

Business as usual is not a £300m investment in extending the stadium & building a hotel.

 

[mike1923]

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The PL wanted Everton to pay the legal costs. The cheeky f*ckers.

If the PL lose against City the costs will be paid by the PL and other 19 PL clubs. That won't go down well with the Red Shirt Cartel clubs. :-)

What about legal costs?​

This specific case is six years in the making, so legal fees on both sides are already estimated at tens of millions of pounds before the hearing even starts.

Expect whichever side 'wins' to make a claim for costs.

For context, the Premier League wanted Everton to pay the full £4.9m legal costs of their first PSR six-point deduction case from last season.

Everton's lawyer Celia Rooney told the appeal that those figures were “frankly eye-watering”.

However, an appeal board ruled Everton should pay £1.7m and the Premier League cover the remaining £3.2m legal fees.

Any costs being paid by the Premier League at the end of the City case would have to be spread across the 20 clubs which make up the league.

Man City hearing: Premier League 115 charges case begins

The hearing into Manchester City's 115 charges for alleged breaches of the Premier League's financial rules begins on Monday.

www.bbc.co.uk

I hope City say we aren’t paying a share of legal costs for effectively prosecuting ourselves

And hopefully any club that wasn’t in the league at the time the charges were brought takes a leaf out of Leicester’s book and says they weren’t a PL club at the time so they aren’t either

Fanciful, but would be amusing

 

[Milesvk]

I think it’s both. It’s no wonder your average fan assumes we are guilty. They don’t have the inclination to read the CAS verdict themselves so rely on journalism to inform them. They have done a shocking job.

Remember when Stefan first appeared on talksport, he did pretty much read out the CAS verdict and align it to this case but all Jim White wanted to know was what punishment we get, they then put the headline out 'city financial expert says city will be relegated'.
When you notice all the media reports they all start with the allegations then lead onto possible punishment, not one report I have seen has gone into any sort of detail about the bit in the middle, the actual case itself.
I believe they are intelligent people and choose to ignore the CAS verdict and focus on clicks instead.

 

[Shirley]

Bitter utd fan Ogden?
Can't for the life of me think what would make him write some shite like that about us.

And a wannabe MIB

 

[M18CTID]

I reckon hardly any of them have read it.

I wouldn’t mind but they don’t even need to read the full report. Just the bit that says we didn’t use disguised equity funding for sponsorship payments. And even if any of the brain dead cunts were to accept that we won on ALL the non time-barred charges, what makes them think it would’ve been a different outcome on the time-barred ones?!

 

[Stoned Rose]

as would be expected they omitted the final part of his concluding sentence on the SSN clip

"To have the possibility of that being tarnished is really sad (SSN end quote here) but we will see what happens We may find that they are not guilty of these things."

I watched the original clip live and even with the last bit he made a tit of himself.

Said he was “worried” and using daft words like “tarnished”.

He should leave the emotion out of it as words like that only fuel the fire of those who want us wiped out.

“Oooh this ex-city chairman is shitting himself and thinks everything will be tarnished”. Reinforces their confirmation bias.

Should’ve just said city are adamant they’re innocent and have a body of irrefutable evidence and then shut his mouth.

For a man of his experience he’s naive as fuck.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Just seen him talking now.
Surprised by his reaction to it all, I'd expect him to be a bit more bullish and have a bit of faith in the process.

Needs to up his TRT dose mate.

 

[BlueMonkey79]

Bitter utd fan Ogden?
Can't for the life of me think what would make him write some shite like that about us.

The guy was a **** at school.

All that education and university and he's still a **** now.

 

[supercity88]

I hope City say we aren’t paying a share of legal costs for effectively prosecuting ourselves

And hopefully any club that wasn’t in the league at the time the charges were brought takes a leaf out of Leicester’s book and says they weren’t a PL club at the time so they aren’t either

Fanciful, but would be amusing

Whilst City will undoubtedly look for a costs award of successful, the non-cooperation harms our arguments as the panel would probably conclude that had we shared the information requested by the PL they wouldn't have charged us. We all know that's not true because of the politics, but it would be the basis on which the panel looks at things.