PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[hcblue95]

The clue is at the end of my post. If our accounts are found to be false then we’ll be retrospectively found to be in breach of UEFA FFP.

But again, why would the premier league charge us for this when it should be uefa's job.

 

[M18CTID]

But again, why would the premier league charge us for this when it should be uefa's job.

Fair point. I don’t know really. UEFA seem to have moved on from our win at CAS and don’t appear to have the appetite to pursue things further. I suspect that might change if the IC find us guilty of any of the more serious charges.

 

[jacko74]

I care.

If we genuinely breached any of the regulations, we need to take that on the chin, take whatever sanction coming from it and learn from it.

Totally disagree with this.

You seem to be losing sight of the fact that even if we have breached any regulations all we are actually guilty of is attempting to circumvent a set of wholly corupt and iniquitous rules that were only put in place to protect the cartel of established so called "big clubs" and prevent any other club from challenging their dominance.

 

[Bournemouth Blue]

How many more articles will the MEN find an excuse to mention the charges? “Haaland landmark reached as 115 charges threaten extinction”. “Foden masterclass overshadowed by Tebas accusations”. “Clubs want Rodri stripped of Ballon d’Or due to ongoing hearing”.

 

[Bellamy's Caddy]

How many more articles will the MEN find an excuse to mention the charges? “Haaland landmark reached as 115 charges threaten extinction”. “Foden masterclass overshadowed by Tebas accusations”. “Clubs want Rodri stribbed of Ballon d’Or due to ongoing hearing”.

The MEN is a dying institution, scrambling round desperately trying to stay relevant, peddling click bait and trying to appeal to the masses. Certainly when it comes to City it makes no effort to display regional loyalty, which I find incredibly disappointing. The Liverpool Echo is practically a parody and we regularly poke fun at it for its heavily biased reporting of anything relating to its football teams, but there is no doubt whose side it is on. The MEN, on the other hand, sadly is prepared to sacrifice any local allegiance to placate the clickbait masses.

Years ago I had professional dealings with the MEN, it had some great people there and some very good journalists. Its unrecognisable to what it has become now, and if the people responsible for reporting on City aren't ashamed of what they are resorting to, then they should be.

 

[slbsn]

Not like Mancini to be shy, I think :) With the language issues, though, and the relative low-risk of that particular issue, would a written statement be enough?

If I was the PL, I'd be cross examining every witness. The Mancini matter is dead with an unchallenged witness statement. If a witness statement is unchallenged, the panel are likely to accept every word as unchallenged evidence ie fact.

 

[pudge]

Is it over yet?

 

[eastmanc]

i think tney will make something stick , they just cant be seen to have taken it this far for nothing . This good faith thing seems a grey area

i too trust khaldoon 100%

The evidence is the evidence if there isn't any they can't just make something up to make it stick.

 

[eastmanc]

The MEN is a dying institution, scrambling round desperately trying to stay relevant, peddling click bait and trying to appeal to the masses. Certainly when it comes to City it makes no effort to display regional loyalty, which I find incredibly disappointing. The Liverpool Echo is practically a parody and we regularly poke fun at it for its heavily biased reporting of anything relating to its football teams, but there is no doubt whose side it is on. The MEN, on the other hand, sadly is prepared to sacrifice any local allegiance to placate the clickbait masses.

Years ago I had professional dealings with the MEN, it had some great people there and some very good journalists. Its unrecognisable to what it has become now, and if the people responsible for reporting on City aren't ashamed of what they are resorting to, then they should be.

The MUEN are a fucking disgrace.

 

[BerkshireBlue]

Yes there is. In complying with each of those rules as in all other matters relating to the club's dealings with the PL, the rules have to be complied with in good faith. Once again, if the club in complying with all those rules has acted in bad faith by providing, at the very least, information it knew to be incorrect, then it has breached all of those rules. That is why the good faith rule had been added to that tranche of allegations, imho, because without it the club could say it has complied with a literal reading of those rules.

Tbh, I doubt very much that the PL's very expensive lawyers have made such a fundamental mistake in their referral that all the most serious charges can be thrown out on such a flimsy premise.

Anyway, it's bedtime for me, thank God, so I am leaving this here. I have to get up in the middle of the night to watch the match. Enjoy the game!

you're wrong, the rule is the rule as written. See the Leicester case where the PL lost due to the rule being written as it is. That is how law works, it's not oh we actually meant this by that rule. The PL are a sloppy organisation and the rules are sloppily written and quite frankly opens the door for the city solicitors to walk through really easily. Again this is all pre 2014 before they cracked down and the rules.