PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[oldius]

Fucking hell, there are some real balloons over on the Caf.

It is absolutely nothing compared to RAWK.

 

[supercity88]

The more I think about this case the more confident I am. City have ploughed huge sums into the club since the charges and are completely relaxed and confident.

I go back to Stefan's early appearance on TS when he mentioned the Enron scandal. It sticks in the mind because it was an extremely rare case of fraud, which makes the allegations against City unlikely from the off.

Then you have the fact that CAS have determined a lot of this in our favour already.

Then you have the law itself and burden of proof. Will hacked emails (I don't believe they have anything else) be sufficient to convince a panel that audited accounts were fraudulent? And what about when senior City officials testify they were lawful?

 

[richards30]

The more I think about this case the more confident I am. City have ploughed huge sums into the club since the charges and are completely relaxed and confident.

I go back to Stefan's early appearance on TS when he mentioned the Enron scandal. It sticks in the mind because it was an extremely rare case of fraud, which makes the allegations against City unlikely from the off.

Then you have the fact that CAS have determined a lot of this in our favour already.

Then you have the law itself and burden of proof. Will hacked emails (I don't believe they have anything else) be sufficient to convince a panel that audited accounts were fraudulent? And what about when senior City officials testify they were lawful?

And every single sponsor implicated has continued to conceal and lie is a big call? Plus questioning the accountants and that other the likes of Etihad as well?

 

[Gordyola]

I guess it's possible that the 3-man commission had looked at the evidence and come back with the view that it would be a 10 or even 12-point deduction based on the evidence they'd seen so far. And that to save the huge expense of a 3-month hearing, and probably an appeal, the PL were prepared to settle for less, in order to avoid the expense.

It's also possible that they were told that it was the IC's view that it was only 50/50 that they'd land the main allegations, and they wanted to try to get a result without that uncertainty, and one that satisfied the cartel as well.

It could also be possible that they did this entirely off their own bat, having discussed with the cartel what they'd consider the minimum adequate outcome.

We don't know, and we'll only know when the IC makes its findings known.

Would the IC members really see all the evidence from both sides before the hearing, surely that’s the purpose of the hearing. I can imagine the PL legal team telling the PL that on the basis of the evidence it’s what they believe

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

There is another point about the determination, namely that the wider consequences will absolutely be in the minds of the decision makers.

An unpopular, unexpected, controversial decision that has huge geopolitical consequences might provide a path of less resistance for the panel than that of a popular, expected, uncontroversial decision that does not.

The power of the red cartel in the ultimate outcome of this process is hugely overstated on this thread.

 

[Gordyola]

Pannik is a FOC he won't have a clue about new technology. :-)

In defence of FOC a lot of the earliest adopters and developers of computer technology have died a ripe old age Tim Berners Lee is 69 he developed the internet William Henry Gates is 69 both a year older than our esteemed Lord
But I know what you mean

 

[Tevez City]

There is an article today that City will be expelled from all compeitions when found guilty !


They don't want to relegate us, they just want to bury us alive

 

[BAB.DAB]

As far as I know the 'hack' was just City not removing the permissions for old employees. They logged in using their old credentials from when they were employed by City. This is a pretty embarrassing security oversight by us imo and probably why we were happy to settle for a low amount. If they had hired some shady hacker to access our database then I'm sure we would have taken it further.

Article from this is anfield website

 

[chaddblue]

There is an article today that City will be expelled from all compeitions when found guilty !


They don't want to relegate us, they just want to bury us alive

Yeah that was this morning

This afternoon/ evening we’re being told the agents and representatives are lining up moves for players when we’re thrown out of the premier league

This bullshit is after 4 days of the hearing

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

How many you tubers go to the games.

Quite a few find themselves at the front of the ticket queue for the ‘glamour’ fixtures.