In terms of PSR and inflated or incorrectly recorded sponsorships -LOL. I hope that's an ironic reply. The prospect of relegation was never a serious option, more a piece of media sensationalism.
To be expelled from the PL, or suffer something like a 70 point deduction, we'd have to have committed a very serious, wide ranging and deliberate deception against the PL, UEFA, our auditor and our commercial partners. Quite simply, we haven't done that.
If we had I'd be very shocked and would have little sympathy for those who orchestrated that.
As I said, the very worst case scenario is that we'd be in a similar position to Everton, with the the IC finding that the bulk of the Etihad sponsorship was falsely included in our revenues. In that case we could be found to have exceeded the PL PSR maximum allowable loss by a similar sum when the figures for the impacted years were re-evaluated. I seriously doubt that's going to be the case though.
I can't see how we will lose if we are innocent, certainly not on the substantial charges. Personally if we are innocent I'm happy the club declined the offer if made. And if the PL turns into a kangaroo court and finds us guilty despite the evidence then fuck them, you should always stand up for what's right and your principals. It's them that won't sleep at night not those at City.Yes but that’s not my point. It’s possible that we are innocent and lose. We won CAS 2-1 nor 3-0 as an example.
You're right about the initial Etihad deal as far as I'm aware but at CAS the claim was that Etihad had only paid £8m from its own funds and £52m from somewhere else. UEFA assumed that 'somewhere else' was ADUG whereas we showed it wasn't. But that was for the financial years 2013/14, 2015/16 and 2016/17 iirc.I thought the Etihad deal was £400m for 10 years (when it was signed) equating to £40m per year. Compared to the £60m you stated in your post above.
I can't see how we will lose if we are innocent, certainly not on the substantial charges. Personally if we are innocent I'm happy the club declined the offer if made. And if the PL turns into a kangaroo court and finds us guilty despite the evidence then fuck them, you should always stand up for what's right and your principals. It's them that won't sleep at night not those at City.
I’m quite certain that’s illegal in the UK mate, so someone may have been pulling your plonkerI did jury service about 15 years ago now, It was actually a murder case I was on, and despite more than half of my fellow jury members believing there was a good chance the suspect was guilty we just did not have enough clear evidence to find them guilty,
Also in between breaks of being called back into the courtroom ( of which there was a lot as the judge loved to call for a break every 2 hours lol) I got speaking to people on jury service on another case and some of them had lost there jobs as they had been on this particular fraud case for over over 6 months,
Yeah - I saw that article posted on rawkThe telegraph are now saying we will be excluded from the domestic cups as well if found guilty. They're losing the plot
I'm pretty sure Villa tried that one not so long ago as they were close to the line, but were knocked back. Hence the creative deals they and others were doing towards the end of June.Just a general PSR question.
Can clubs not argue that the 105 losses threshold adjust due to inflation?
Not necessarily CPI inflation but the fact the clubs recieve ever increasing tv money plus increasing in competition prize money etc. That type of stuff is also inbedd into player contracts so more outlay for the club.
Yeah - I saw that article posted on rawk
They are starting to think they will be in the Club World cup
SniffI'm worried its going to be 12 points, shocking but not surprising sadly