PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[mackenzie]

First day in work for me since the news broke on Monday. The 2 rags kept a wide berth until about 4.45pm but then they just had to mention it.
Needless to say I was a bit triggered, threw a load of facts at them and they scattered.
Twats.

 

[Burtonblue]

The way I feel right now, to be honest, can't really be arsed going to the match on Sunday.

Football is meant to be fun and it just isn't.

Mate, this is exactly what they want to do to us. Make it stop being fun. Make us stop wanting to go.
Don’t fucking let them win.
Get in there on Sunday and sing your heart out.
We fight till the end and need to let the world know that!

 

[tornandfrayed]

I think the main thing that came out of today is some lawyers on twitter inc. @projectriver looked at the fine print and seem to have decided that there's almost zero chance this goes to the high court for appeal. It's the independent panel that will decide the case.

I'm still confused by this. Apparently the panel can come to any conclusion they want and impose any punishment they want but as long as they are seen to be following the correct "process" there's nothing City can do about it legally.

 

[Eric Hitchmough]

Years mate! Genuinely. And thank you! I've got a sneaky feeling city will prevail

Cheers mate. And yeah keep going with everything you’re doing. We need all the mates we can get right now!

 

[Decepticon]

Agghh. You were supposed to say no. Then I could have said - "well get over there with the twats rhen" ; )

He winds me up every single time he mention us that piece of shit motherfucker.

I despise that scouse ****.

 

[Uwe's 80s mullet]

Did I also hear that right on the overlap? The bellend arsenal fan linking this to match fixing and financial doping to the fact we took Adebayor, nasri and toure off them? Fuck me the way a couple of those turned out and the money we paid at the time they should be thanking us!

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

Not sure if already posted but I found this a decent watch.

@twosips comes across really well and defended our corner. Said what the majority of what blues are thinking. And as expected other team fans have us guilty already

Even Neville (who didn't go as far as defend us) agreed FFP is skewered toward the traditional top 4 and reforms are needed.

Carragher however comes across as a right dick and couldn't help himself at making snidey digs at every opportunity

Carragher simply hasn't read the details. I'm not sure he's read the Der Spiegel report. I'm not convinced, deep down, he understand the accusations. I don't think he read and/or understood the CAS report, or what the time barred really meant.

Obviously - obviously - City have taken advantage of their links with commercial partners attached to the club. Like United, like Leicester, like Bayern, like Stoke, like Juventus like [insert a dozen other football clubs]. But obviously those links are mutually beneficial for those sponsors. But City are the most successful club in England over the last decade, are on TV more regularly than anyone, and have exploited emerging commercial markets in creative ways as you would expect directors who are at the cutting edge of European football. Txiki Begiristain proposed all this at Barcelona, and the dinosaurs there saw him off for it, so he took the template and brought it to rainy Manchester cos he'd figured out business plans and football plans that the rest of European football are now trying to copy. Carragher still seems to think that Real Madrid should be top of the table because they sell more shirts and have more Facebook followers. Well, if Spurs made £442.8m, having not won a trophy in a decade while in the UEFA conference league, why shouldn't City have made £619.1m winning the league and getting to the semi finals of the CL? That sounds about right to me.

 

[ysmsa]

Haaland was their mate. We just ignored him :)

Brilliant, overlooked I think (like Haaland).

 

[cleavers]

The club seem confident and ready to do battle, so I'll take their lead. And I don't imagine they did what they did without good advice. The PL don't appear to be particularly professional and there seem to be undercurrents to this wider than just a few accounting issues.

And, as I said at the start, this is probably about our rivals throwing mud and hoping some sticks. I think they'll regret that.

Thanks for the confident note C.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Apologies if already posted - thought Stephen (@twosips) did well here. I couldn't be in a room with a load of fans who have already decided we're guilty (because they want to believe this recent domination on the pitch has been doped by some marketing deals off it?!) and smirking their way into debates with snide digs (specifically that Paul Machin wanting to be everybody's mate while coming across as a snide prick). Carragher included. And especially that Spurs fan who, for some reason, thinks they've been held back by City over the past 15 years when they've challenged for the league once and beaten by fucking Leicester. Bottlejobs.

Fair play to Neville too (I know) who calls out FFP for what it is. A scheme to keep certain clubs at the top of the pile while the rest have to sit and watch playing happy families.

Again, as I said yesterday, it boils down to a man being told he isn't allowed to spend his money how he wants to and because of that supposedly breaking these made-up, self-protective rules to be able to compete. Let that sink in. A load of horseshit.

Spurs haha