PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[halfcenturyup]

I'll be eagerly awaiting his call then

No chance. It'll be two Liverpool season ticket holders and one United season ticket holder.

:)

 

[mancity1]

The Super League isn't happening. This is simply a play to redress the balance in the Premier League towards those clubs who believe they are the reason for the large TV deals in the first instance.

Each of the English clubs who signed up for the Super League were eventually forced to come back with their tails between their legs and sign an agreement not to try again, with a £300m fine for any such attempt.

So now they want a Super League under the umbrella of the Premier League, where mid to lower teams will vote for the vested interests of keeping United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs and the Murderers in the equation.

City are the fall guy for it. Whether to take us to the wall or render us uncompetitive on and off the pitch for a period of time that provides no threat and tarred forever.

We want in independent regulator.

Even clubs like West Ham and Bournemouth don't want that.

Turkeys will always vote for Christmas, even if means taking their chances the butcher won't put them on the chopping block for a while.

This scenario makes sense as anti competitive as it is with Newcastle being the latest perhaps to begin a journey to rattle the cage if their money trail and acumen of the owners is near ours however we have done ok without an independent regulator since 2008.

Are you suggesting Tolmie that this action by the Premier League is more politically motivated than a simple matter of us supposedly breaking rules when we knew what the rules were to force a change in the way the Premier League is overseen?

 

[Kippax77]

City just don't want to be at the centre of these self-serving attacks. We want to be respectful & professional in our approach to business & not to be the cause of European football's downfall.

We've tried hard to be reasonable with the European elite, but this ploy has failed miserably. It's time to take the gloves off, don the bovver boots & go kick some fuckin heads in. It's war!

Yes please

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

I agree that the ESL came a lot closer with the charges against us. You could argue this is an attempt by the cartel to force us out or weaken our bargaining position prior to a breakaway league. What is the PL anyway, except a cartel of powerful businesses? They can make their ruling on us then run off into the sunset to form another league, leaving us with little recourse except to appeal against an effectively defunct organisation. I suspect the timing of this is deliberate and not just re the government’s white paper.

On the point of corruption, it’s endemic in our country’s culture now. The poster above who referenced lobbying in parliament which is not regarded as corruption is a good example. Of course, these practices filter down to to big business. Media organisations who employ former players of clubs as pundits to skew the narrative. Pgmol appointing referees who are very much company men and know what’s expected of them. The var debacle, which adds another layer of interference. And on it goes.

Lobbying is essentially a form of corruption. I have direct experience of how it works at Government level. They can deny it as much as they want but the whole point of it is that people win influence with senior people so they can promote their own vested interests. Most of the legislation passed in the UK is a result of pressure from media or lobbyists and most of it is not really needed to improve the living standards of people.
Corruption is endemic in most corporate organisations. It ranges from nepotism, expenses fiddling, pilfering, all the way up to overt financial fraud. A lot of people choose not to see it. Football is the same as everywhere else.

 

[slbsn]

I wasn’t suggesting they would. I was replying on a general basis to a poster who thought courts would automatically uphold all contracts.
I‘ll let you off, though, so much to wade through!

Cool. We agree its technically possible but wouldn't apply here.

 

[KS55]

We don't know who voted which way, we only know that all 3 were deemed to be fair and impartial.

The point is not that City had a man on the board, it's that at this level people are grown up enough to know everyone's going to have tangential connections somewhere in a small industry and it doesn't get in the way of doing their jobs fairly.

We don’t know for certain who voted which way, but a lawyer from the German arbitrators own office, after it was finished, wrote a piece “proving” we were guilty. Published in Der Spiegel iirc.

 

[halfcenturyup]

It doesn’t. Why would each side need to pick, if independence isn’t an issue?

And both agree on the chairman. None of which is happening here.

I can't stop myself. Finishing here.

 

[Stoned Rose]

But then by not charging us, if they had uncovered that we've been deliberately deceiving them, if they were to let it slide to save face they too would also be acting dishonestly and potentially open themselves up to legal consequences from other parties.

Missed the point of my post there tbf mate.

 

[BringBackSwales]

we need either Soriano or Khaldoon to do a video interview in they are so confident we are innocent and start dropping in hints of dirt we will release if we indeed do have any? It would be then interesting to see if the media narrative changed from the joy we currently see?

The closest you get to see about how the club feels will be clear to see in Pep’s demeanour in Fridays press conference. If he is bullish he’s been given good, strong news, which he believes, if he isn’t then god help us

 

[meeesh]

No chance. It'll be two Liverpool season ticket holders and one United season ticket holder.

:)

Shit,never mind