PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Bez]

Not sure if this has been posted. But seems balanced.

Man City knew charges were coming as plan to clear reputation emerges

Manchester City have been charged by the Premier League for breaking over 100 financial rules after the organisation underwent a four-year investigation in the club

www.mirror.co.uk

Makes a change from the hysterical reports that are aimed at inciting the baying mob.

 

[flb]

I highly doubt it.

All the same Ric , we let Liverpool off very lightly , it made the missing dogs section of every newspaper.

 

[TueartsCossackSpray]

It’s just the big green eyed monster. We were the country’s “my second favourite team” and that was how they thought we would always be. Now we are many peoples most hated team but that hatred brings a bit of a war time spirit out in people which will make us stronger in the team as well as us fans. As Corporal Jones said “They don’t like it up em”

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

PB this is something I have been thinking.

If and it’s if as of course I have no idea we have inflated, hidden or whatever and they prove it.

This may be something that allowed us to not breach CL FFP and if these can added on we do…

However was PL a lot more easier to pass and as such even with these on we could still have passed PL FFP.

Is this a possibility?

Yes.

 

[Ric]

Sanctions available to the PL include unlimited fines, points deductions or, in extreme cases, expulsion from the PL. The PL has no powers to relegate us, strip us of any trophies or enforce a transfer ban.

Do you mind me asking what the source for that is? Not doubting you, of course, just interested in where you’ve read that as I keep seeing people claim that transfer bans, relegation and the stripping of titles are options available to the PL.

 

[Leeky]

Can I come out of the wardrobe yet. Has this all gone away?

come out in 4 years apparently

 

[Ric]

We get hacked twice, coincidence?

It raises questions about our own cyber security, as much as anything.

 

[s1ty m]

STOP COMPARING US TO RANGERS!!!

Rangers were investigated by HMRC for tax fraud essentially, they went bust due to no revenue and a huge litany of unpaid debts (including a face painter of all people!), they had to liquidate the entire company and re-register as a new company. This was entirely of their own volition and through decades of baffling and systemic mismanagement and asset stripping by a series of idiots and mercenaries. It's only by a very unusual quirk in the world of football that they were even allowed to re enter the Scottish professional league (realistically they had to or Scottish football was fucked).

IT IS NOT THE SAME

Absolutely right. It just isn't. FFS.

 

[flb]

It raises questions about our own cyber security, as much as anything.

So in your opinion , the Der Spiegel hack isn’t linked ?

 

[117 M34]

Sanctions available to the PL include unlimited fines, points deductions or, in extreme cases, expulsion from the PL. The PL has no powers to relegate us, strip us of any trophies or enforce a transfer ban.

f this is about image rights, which were about £17/18m a year I think, and we were found guilty, I'd say a very hefty fine would possibly be our punishment. If we were found guilty of deliberately concealing, say, £50m a year, then we'd likely face a points deduction, would be my guess. But that's purely a guess.

If we could show that the amounts involved made no material difference to our position under FFP or the PL's rules, then that's a completely different kettle of fish to a sum that would materially impact those.

Would expulsion from the PL not be the same as relegation?