PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[BlueRockape]

Please tell me that everything will be good to our beloved club.

If it ain't don't worry we will start again.
At the age of 66 I like to think I will be still here to enjoy the ride once again

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

Remember the fixture well but not the result because we were in the Burnley end getting acquainted with some ruffians named the Suicide Squad.

Hee the good old days

Yes, we had one or two dalliances with that lot in the late 90s/early 00s. I remember one of them shouting, 'Come on then City, I'll give thee a bunch of sixes'.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Just catching up. So it’s highly unlikely we’ll be able to go the the English courts and most probably, barring them cocking up somehow, we’ll have to just take the panel’s verdict as final? The panel that’s hand-picked by the PL? That’s deflating. Day 1 I was low, yesterday felt like a good day, now today has me taking a dip in confidence again. And we’re only 3 days into however long it will end up taking!

 

[roach3]

One thing i cant get my head around is that liverpool scandal hacking the accounts etc.
why was there hardly any news on this?
Are we really to nice and allowed them to just pay the one million and thats the end of it or did the dippers threaten us with something a lot bigger.

This should have been as big a story as ours is now.

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

It boils down to one big claim really. That at least 9 years of Manchester City Football Club accounts are not true and fair (and were knowingly provided to the PL in bad faith). Everything else is noise. I've always thought it would take a long time. Nick di Marco KC says 4 years. Good enough for me

Seems that‘s a huge allegation that would be impossible to prove without a huge team of investigators, do you think the Premier League would be happy for this to run for another four years? Also is this three person committee or our accusers at the Premier League even qualified to carry out a forensic investigation on such a serious allegation? Seems everything is based on the hacked emails which is basically a bank got robbed when you were in town and you have a large amount of money in your account that you cannot account for but we have no evidence you robbed the bank.

 

[Mike Brock]

Please tell me that everything will be good to our beloved club.

Of course it will no matter what, if any punishment is given to us. We’ll dust ourselves down, lift our heads and carry on supporting our wonderful Football Club.

 

[Woody135]

If City paid him directly for Al Jazira contract then I guess this issue will be hard to defend.

Why tf would city pay. It would have been from AJ. More to the point how could city have paid for something they hadnt accounted for?
There would have been a hole in the accounts. Cash out, no expense recorded.

Its effectively a sponsorship deal that are all over the place now. Bloody messi is an ambassador for qatar.

AJ will have paid him money for a separate contract for services unconnected to city and the contract between city and him.

Theres nothing illegal about that
Theres nothing immoral about that
Theres nothing incorrect about the accounting for that

Its mud being slung with no legal/accounting basis.

 

[LWashington]

I’m not sure you can take your case with the bouncer to the High court.

I know I my mate wouldn't want to take his case with Bouncer to a High Court, it was an ugly incident and got him permanently banned from the set of Neighbours.

 

[blue&whitepauly]

since this started I am still bemused by how a club of this stature and clout to hire top lawyers, accountants, and auditors, can fall foul of what must be relatively simple (if it's PL driven) rules and regulations ? where have the PL supposedly gotten this information from ?

oh and for all the Chelsea fans who are having a good go about being relegated, be careful what you wish for because the Abramovich years would be a pandoras box of goodies far richer than our "alleged" misdoings

oh and for talkshite and other sham media outlets peddling garbage that teams who came second to city in the league and cup competitions should have their titles, they seem to forget they were won on the pitch, not in the goings on behind the scenes which players rarely have much insight into, so fook right off and try looking at it neutrally instead of this insidious witch hunt that all the envious gobshites have joined, and I know I should not let it bother me but fair enough if we have done wrong, but for the moment these are unproven "allegations", and a lot if not most, of the media outlets should remember that before proclaiming city are relegated etc

try being responsible journalists just for once

 

[crossie]

And some are saying it will all be done professionally, and impartially. bwhaaaaaaaaa

It is like a Criminal case being Prosecuted by a good friend of the Victim, Judged by a Relative. And 12 of his best mates on the Jury.

I can not believe one, or two, are actually expecting an unbiased conclusion. They need to give their Head a huge fucking wabble.

They have already found us guilty without trial. Their Dogs in the Media are providing the narrative to throw the metaphorical Kitchen Sink at us punishment wise, pontificating afterwards that the excessive punishment was "For the Good of the Game" and not to protect the Top 4 Sarc.

This is going to the High Court.

The fact they have to say impartial means they’ve considered it needs to be, therefore it won’t be.