PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[chickaroon]

Awesome post blue… I salute you, because that brought me to tears!

I lived all of that too. Very emotional post. Thank you, for this. So proud of my Club and its supporter's.

 

[marco]

This is the bit that's baffled me. I suppose they started digging deeper after that German rag newspaper started stirring the shit. Didn't somebody say an ex employee has turned whistleblower? As you say they saw nothing wrong every year but suddenly accounts they supposedly passed they are now saying were fraudulent. That's a very serious allegation and if their evidence isn't 100% waterproof would surely leave them open to legal action.

the 100% waterproof bit as you say is the bit that bothers me, its not just city that have the best lawyers in town and for PL to act on what they have found would have been scrutinised by there lawyers prior to the charge any doubt from them and they wouldnt persue the charge, they cant be that stupid can they that they have gone into this like a bull in front of a red flag

 

[Citizen1961]

They should be to be honest.

I posted a few weeks/months ago (when some journo made a snide remark that we were still under investigation) about how this entire situation is completely unacceptable, not just for City to be in a never ending investigation, but also for our competitors to have credible accusations levelled against us and it never come to a hearing to decide it once and for all.

Their owners are trying to sell the clubs at a time where the major competition has been accused and now charged by the league for getting away with cheating and fraud for 15 years completely unchecked.

Obviously that kind of thing is going to put off potential buyers. If you were looking to invest in a sport you want to know the rules you're accepting are being followed.


We're naturally looking at this entirely from the City POV, but to be honest I'm surprised more people aren't getting angry from the other clubs.

Yup, it's like an act of self harm by the Premier league.

 

[HarrytheBlue]

Do you not think part of our legal teams job will be to frame any drastic action like that as potentially illegal from a business perspective? That's the only way I can see us taking any negative outcome outside the closed shop of the pl and coming inquiry and into a legal/higher court?

Exactly!! I've been saying that.

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

Apologies if this has been posted, but i got sent this link which are apparently the hacked emails from Der Spiegel.

Der Spiegel did similar things with these. These are mostly standard work communications read by non-experts from a cynical position leaving out the wider context (or ignoring important parts often in the same Comms) because they desperately want it to be true. If City have been unclear about some aspects of their books, they're not talking like supervillains to each other about how one needs to be clean all the wrongdoing in order to not get caught.

In fact wasn't that £8m point a key part of CAS case? Worth reading at length to get the wider context of what City is saying is happening here, what their counter evidence was, and why the panel felt they couldn't rule on it if the only evidence is that specific email.


And here as well.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Of course it was illegally obtained. I'm just pointing out the difference, pinto hacked City, liverpool used stolen login and passwords from an ex employee, both are illegal but one is hacking the other isn't.

Tom-Aye-to Tom-Aah-to.

 

[HarrytheBlue]

People said that before CAS, and it never happened then. I think it’s wishful thinking. At best we might be able to demonstrate that other clubs have been doing some of the things we’re accused of. The notion that we have something completely incendiary seems a little fanciful though.

At CAS we didn't need to go through the gears to demolish UEFA. Our lawyers won't be dramatic and fanciful - it won't be the Hollywood scene some are imagining. Our lawyers will be polite, professional, clear, mentally agile, all over the detail and relentless. Maybe our auditors will come along.

 

[nellyonthewing]

I just got a 3 day ban on the Telegraph site for suggesting their hack James Ducker was in the pay of the red clubs …Cheeky fookers -prove me wrong…

 

[117 M34]

We're right to not cooperate with the cartel's puppet.

Yes absolutely.
I don't see why we should be required to cooperate in the first place.
If they've got the evidence then they don't require our cooperation and if they haven't then they shouldn't charge us.

 

[chesterbells]

Two words
Manchester
CITY

Or as Mark Chapman refers to us,
Manchess City.

(Apols, I realise that’s completely irrelevant to your post but it just triggered me after hearing him mispronounce our name for the zillionth time on telly tonight!
He wasn’t being critical of us, and I quite enjoy him as a presenter, but he always does it).

Anyway, grump over. We’ve got bigger things to moan about I guess…