PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[M12Blue]

Shame we won’t hear anything this side of Christmas. Looks like another 3/4 months wait.

City play any worse and we won’t need them to threaten relegation. Just do it ourselves -:)

Going from 50 points needed to maybe just 6 to manage it, just like the good old days this relegation malarkey

 

[Gundoggin]

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This reads like the one of the many ready made excuses that the majority of those who have already found us guilty will come up with if or when we are cleared. But I bet Mr. Dumb bar....sorry Dunbar will claim his club is squeaky clean.

Dumb bar probably singed the call a general election petition thinking it would work bless his cotton socks .

 

[RayCTID]

Is Dumbell a Dip or a Rag?

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

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This reads like the one of the many ready made excuses that the majority of those who have already found us guilty will come up with if or when we are cleared. But I bet Mr. Dumb bar....sorry Dunbar will claim his club is squeaky clean.

I don't know how many times this needs to be said but a football club is a terrible propaganda investment, a decent but ultimately limited political investment, and an excellent financial investment.

 

[JewelZee]

what an absolute crock o shit.

Firstly, I never said SM would run a mile from City - IF and it’s a big IF if we go down in flames at the 115 tribunal I would guarantee you that SM wont be taking the ultimate rap for it. Others might - but it won’t be SM.

As for your defence of Tolmie - he literally tweeted ‘why would city inflate sponsorship when billonaire owners can finance spending’ which is complete bollocks and misunderstand of PSR.

He dug in himself in deeper with ridiculous further posts saying the same.

I normally like Tolmies posts on Twitter - but todays thread was nonsense

Go back and read the string fella, I didn't come up with the "run a mile from City," someone else did. I commented on it in a reply. I have zero problem taking up for what I say, but I do have a problem with even the most subtle revisions to what I've actually said and haven't said.

If we go down in flames as you say there's not a place on this planet SM can hide from the disgrace. Elon Musk can fly him to Mars and he won't be able to escape the stain. He may not give a shit down to his wealth and status in his homeland but from where I'm sitting his reputation in other parts of the world would be fucked.

That said, let's hope it never comes down to that...

 

[TedofChume]

I've just had a look at the Nick Harris article on SportingIntelligence. He's put a screenshot of an email from Simon Pearce at the top indicating this is part of his "new evidence" - that email has been freely available to download from this der Spiegel article since 07/04/22. Hardly anything new:

Manchester City's Cozy Ties to Abu Dhabi: Sponsorship Money – Paid for by the State

Since the sanctions imposed on Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, links between English football clubs and authoritarian states have been in the spotlight. Internal documents show that Manchester City has received funding from a government agency in Abu Dhabi.

www.spiegel.de

It's quite possible he is just bullshitting and all he is showing behind his paywall is just various emails from this article. There are about six pdfs containing multiple emails you can download.

Most people haven't downloaded and read them. I have, and I can assure you all, unless you are thick as pigshit, the emails der Spiegel share as damning evidence are nothing of the sort.

Luckily for me, I do understand how businesses work and what is normal practice. If you've never run a business, you could easily be deceived by them. The der Spiegel emails including this one do not indicate the sort of wrongdoing that der Spiegel suggests.

 

[Bluewonder]

Their delusion is off the scale.
These are the pricks who was so cocky as they swept everything up that they sung they do what they want.
They can't match us on or off the pitch so bang goes them having any normal conversation or neutral ground to stand on so what is their go to phrase they've all adopted?
We've cheated the system. Lol. Isn't it so immature.

And I tell you why they have that outlook. It's a generational and social media thing. I played my son at table tennis ages ago. Me, I'm 50, overweight and have bad knees. My lad is young, energetic, and has that sporty streak in him. I had him dancing all around the table, and you know what his first words to me was?

I'm cheating. I'm fuckin cheating. I was literally stood still like a fat wobbling jelly but putting shots away like a pro and he couldn't hack it. So out comes the cheat phrase.
Pretty much like all the pricks on social media. They got their fingers in their ears and call us cheats. They don't know anything else.


(Well, that's my take on proceedings anyway)

But that's because you were using a tennis racket

 

[Bluewonder]

Agreed. The auditors also had all the Der Spiegl claims and CAS statements. Surely they would have spotted anything wrong.

They'd have resigned had they not received iron-clad assurances over the veracity of the accounts.

 

[Paladin]

I've just had a look at the Nick Harris article on SportingIntelligence. He's put a screenshot of an email from Simon Pearce at the top indicating this is part of his "new evidence" - that email has been freely available to download from this der Spiegel article since 07/04/22. Hardly anything new:

Manchester City's Cozy Ties to Abu Dhabi: Sponsorship Money – Paid for by the State

Since the sanctions imposed on Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich, links between English football clubs and authoritarian states have been in the spotlight. Internal documents show that Manchester City has received funding from a government agency in Abu Dhabi.

www.spiegel.de

It's quite possible he is just bullshitting and all he is showing behind his paywall is just various emails from this article. There are about six pdfs containing multiple emails you can download.

Most people haven't downloaded and read them. I have, and I can assure you all, unless you are thick as pigshit, the emails der Spiegel share as damning evidence are nothing of the sort.

Luckily for me, I do understand how businesses work and what is normal practice. If you've never run a business, you could easily be deceived by them. The der Spiegel emails including this one do not indicate the sort of wrongdoing that der Spiegel suggests.

Mate. I always appreciate your take on things, and your blogs, backed up by your business knowledge.

 

[Cobwebcat]

I'll say it again but why on god's green earth are we even including this attention seeking **** Harris in any of our business?

Why aren't you blocking him on twitter? Why are you giving the goggle eyed freak air time? Is there absolutely anybody out there who seriously believes this city hating twat has managed to get his hands on any private or important documents to do with the 115?

He is an oxygen thief, a racist, a city hating patsy who is having his pants pulled down by everyone in cahoots with him.

When we are found innocent what will he talk about (that people will be interested in?)