PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[marco]

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

As long as the don`t have a "cunning plan" like any of Baldricks !!

Let’s hope he’s doing the catering and making the cappuccino at the PL meeting tomorrow….

 

[Mraitch]

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.

So 'funded via ADUG' not by ADUG.

 

[oakiecokie]

Smugness at its glorious best.

 

[peter.evans]

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…

Ha ha yes true re Chapman but he's not a bad lad though !

 

[paulchapo]

I think our club actually play it TOO nice and by the rules, as crazy as that sounds. Whether that's a cultural mindset from our owner and staff I don't know but it needs to change. We need another Gary Cook or a right nasty bastard or two in our ranks. We're dealing with horrible scum who want the death of our club, we have to fight fire with fire.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

I think our club actually play it TOO nice and by the rules, as crazy as that sounds. Whether that's a cultural mindset from our owner and staff I don't know but it needs to change. We need another Gary Cook or a right nasty bastard or two in our ranks. We're dealing with horrible scum who want the death of our club, we have to fight fire with fire.

I put it down to the fact we are the only club in the league that need to be squeaky clean.
If we don’t go by the book it’ll be reported.
As things stand if we do things by the book, their book, they are still reported as not in the true spirit of the law.

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

My fucking head is fried , here. Many thanks to those who contribute in a controlled and informative manner.

So much knowledge from some posters. It's very much appreciated.

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

So 'funded via ADUG' not by ADUG.

That seems to be the case that City make, and that they're having to be super careful documenting all of this precisely because these organizations are closely connected. Which obviously doesn't sound great in the court of public opinion, but that isn't what the charges are either.

In fact, this is as good an example as any. Why *would* the royal family of UAE fund Etihad contracts for City through ADUG when that would leave you a financing and accounting headache when you could just gently nudge Etihad to do it above board? Most fans and some journalists think we're being accused of the latter, but it's not, it's the former.

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

I'm not sure if the 115 charges thing is giving a distorted impression of the size of the case.

I said yesterday reading through the breaches, the Mancini thing could be responsible for 30 of them. Failure to cooperate post 2018 is 36. If @Prestwich_Blue is right about Fordham/image rights being the 2012/13 to 2017/18 player remuneration issue, that's over 40.

So I don't think this is 115 breaches that need to be litigated seperately, it's more like half a dozen issues which spread across multiple rules and seasons.

In which case, maybe the initial 3 man panel will happen relatively soon. PL must have their case ready. City were preparing for this. End of the season seems fanciful, but initial hearing before next season maybe?

As always, hoofin' work Dom. You can be a **** :_ but yer like a dog with a bone.

Always read your posts - always informative.