PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[GortonBlue62]

So what’s happening? Are we still in good shape?

I think the mood of the thread is that we've got this, but as nobody knows anything we might as well just keep talking over the same issues repeatedly.

It's reassuring, but we do sound like a bunch of old women (no offence @Eccles Blue ;-)).

 

[Manchester_lalala]

If that 6 point deduction offer is true I’m amazed City didn’t take it. If we have say a 30% chance of relegation, given that even the most slam dunk of cases has only around a 70% chance of winning, why take the chance?

Khaldoon took a pinch 10 years ago to save face. I don’t think he’s in the mood this time.

 

[bigA]

There are a few doom mongers here fearing the worst. My view is if the PL had any irrefutable evidence of wrong doing, this case would have been done by now any any punishment would have been meted out. We would either be in the appeal stage now or suffering the punishment handed down.

The longer it has took the PL to get this hearing underway, I feel their case will have been weakened and they have instead been looking at brokering a deal where we will take a pinch for a minimal punishment (small points deduction with (or on it's own) a considerable fine.

City however would have told the PL that the reputational damage already done to the club far outweighs any deal that they can or were offering and we are beyond the point of accepting anything offered by them to save the PL's face. The only thing the City could offer them is the hope of them not suing the PL, certain clubs and the media for vast amounts of money for damages.

 

[jimharri]

Kaz, why are you being so lenient when you know they must burn in hellfire forever with pitchforks wedged up their bottoms?

 

[supercity88]

Sorry to be picky but "let off"? Found to have not broken the rules I think you meant.

That was very much tongue in cheek pal!

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

“Charges not proven” can still imply and will demonstrate guilt with the hordes of lemmings.
“City are innocent on all counts” is what I want to see. Whether that is an option in the vernacular of law I’m not sure.
Straight to the Brown envelope conspiracy.

Anything that doesn’t find guilt will be jumped on as a whitewash or that we’ve bribed people or that we’ve just out lawyered the PL due to our unlimited nation state wealth. The PR war was lost years ago and it won’t change. It will mean though, if we win, that we can legitimately start suing the rear end off people not careful with their insinuations

 

[argyle]

Once City are cleared could City take action against the people behind this witchhunt ?
Why are other clubs allowed to break the rules like rags ?
Why isn't the pl doing a 4 year investigation into the other 19 clubs ?

No. Not in that sense anyway.

The PL will say it is a legitimate investigation and hearing.

City won't be 'burning everything down' after the hearing is over.

I think Tolmie has said he's heard City will apply for damages in terms of lost sponsorship etc.

But I think Stefan disagreed?

 

[argyle]

or
email 1: I'm going to kill the gym this afternoon
email 2: I'm going out with my wife tonight
Der Spiegel evidence: I'm going to kill my wife tonight

I don't think this is what happened.

City didn't contest that the spliced emails fundementally altered their meaning.

 

[manimanc]

Will a hearing like this have “leaks” as we go through the process of will it be a pretty tight ship on information until a decision has been made?

Absolutely no leaks.

How do I know that?

Because the media pricks have gone into overdrive about what will happen to us.

At the minute we're being relegated to the Stockport Sunday league, we're getting docked 500 points, we're getting docked 25 points per season forever, we're also getting expelled from every competition, every single player is looking at other options, pep and kdb will lead the walkouts
Oh and a transfer ban which, by the way, will be hard to impose if we aren't playing in any competition or don't have any players.


So as you can probably tell our lovely chaps in the press are like junkies who have gone cold turkey.

 

[dublinblue12]

It really is a pile of shite. Just pops up on my news feed.

Just block it, all of that gets fed back into their analytics as well so they will know exactly what articles has people blocking