PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[KS55]

Put me in mind of Khaldoons comment about 'people in glass houses'

Yep. I’m hope the intellgence department of AbuDhabi has been busy preparing for this day.

 

[Manchester_lalala]

I honestly cannot understand why at this stage the PL went public with the charges and briefed the media before informing us. Surely they would go public after we've had a chance to reply?

Saw some Villa fans yesterday explaining that they have been affected most as they were a solid top 6 club and pushing for top 4 every year and then we came along and ruined it.

Villa fans are hilarious. They despise us, which I can only put it down from City taking their best players away from them over the years.

 

[Metal Biker]

I honestly cannot understand why at this stage the PL went public with the charges and briefed the media before informing us. Surely they would go public after we've had a chance to reply?

Saw some Villa fans yesterday explaining that they have been affected most as they were a solid top 6 club and pushing for top 4 every year and then we came along and ruined it.

Those 6 points they lost to us every year before their relegation really tipped the balance.

 

[Robinho's Subbuteo]

I don’t think someone’s football preferences will come into it. If you’ve carved out a legal career like that, why would you put your credentials as being impartial and professional at risk for what football team you support?

If you handed punishments out to City, which may or may not involve relegation, you would be just meh about it?

 

[Oystercatcher28]

Imaginary sanction of the day, suggested by a Burnley fan: hand one senior player to each other PL club.

In reality, it'll be fines and Premier League penis-posturing until judgement day. That's assuming it doesn't die away or get withdrawn. Can't see how the PL know more than UEFA and how the rules for the domestic league supercede Europe's supposed biggest cash card. If the PL has stronger rules and powers then UEFA is weaker than I thought. Anyway, after the PL finish, will FIFA come knocking? North-west Counties FA? Greater Manchester FA? Manchester FA?

 

[Sir peace frog]

I think this will be the end of the Premier League as we know. City will bring the house down and all these jealous clubs will get there comeuppance.

no it wont, we read too much of this type of nonsense ,if city are found to have done no wrong we will carry on as usual,because that usual earns us 600m a year, so there will be no "bringing down the house of cards" we saw what happened after the uefa trails, fuck all changed.

 

[KS55]

There isn't a PL appeals process for this though is there? I may have gotten confused trying to catch up this morning mind.

Yeah, me too. ???

 

[paulsimpson]

It's extraordinary. I don't know how we can be accused of very serious accounting malpractice and yet see our case go to an independent hearing of this kind. The Serious Fraud Office and/or HMRC must surely be taking an interest in the explosive nature of these allegations. There will surely be questions about the competency of the PL if they failed to detect falsification, as well as many other bodies that scrutinised our accounts and ultimately signed them off. I agree with Stefan when he says that it is entirely plausible that the PL simply do not understand of what it is they are accusing City. This has the potential to become an extremely ugly affair and goes beyond the UEFA allegations in terms of severity. It would also appear that some of the professional courtesy that City shared with UEFA is lacking with the PL. After the CAS verdict, Khaldoon called Ceferin and they had a cordial conversation. I don't see something similar happening here - I think that the outcome could shake the foundations of the PL, particularly with independent regulation in the offing. I should imagine that the UK government will only be emboldened to introduce independent regulation if one of its key security allies and trade partners is wrongfully smeared by an organisation that is in the grip of certain members with too much influence.

There is a bigger picture. Im glad you allude to this. PL have opened a can of worms and really don't know what or who they are dealing with. It's all about control and power. We all need to recognise globalist elites are increasingly running the show whether we like it or not. It is the reality. Who has the biggest influence in this battle? You decide .

 

[Txiki Txiki Bang Bang]

I honestly cannot understand why at this stage the PL went public with the charges and briefed the media before informing us. Surely they would go public after we've had a chance to reply?

Saw some Villa fans yesterday explaining that they have been affected most as they were a solid top 6 club and pushing for top 4 every year and then we came along and ruined it.

You know, if there was any justice in this world, I could have dated Rihanna and had a fling with Angelina Jolie

 

[slbsn]

Unless Pannick can highlight that we’re not being treated fairly and impartially.

Having a season ticket holder of one of the clubs that has without doubt pushed the PL to investigate us and which will hugely benefit from any punishment handed down by said Arsenal fanatic would NOT be fair nor impartial. Therefore, not what’s been promised by the PL = irregularity.

100% this would NOT qualify as serious irregularity