PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[bluedan]

Timing is everything.

Guess which clubs are currently trying to attract a buyer...

Arsenal used to pay image rights off shore going all the way back to Henry.

They have thrown everything at the wall to ensure something will stick and a punishment forthcoming.

If I had to guess, they will include a massive fine, points deduction (for next season) and a longer transfer ban.

They want us out of business, and now making the Champions League will be a part of that.

As long as we win the CL, we will be back in it making a points deduction a pointless punishment. We will be back in it! Easy :)

Or do another 100 points season, even easier ;)

 

[Tb1981]

Remember when Liverpool hacked our database and the Premier League refused to get involved because it was too long ago...

Great point tolmie!
Here’s another one….fuck off the money the dippers paid to bury this story and start putting statements and allegations out there ahead of there sale
Throw some shit back and let them sue us!

 

[There is a Light]

'fashionable brands' what are you talking about, your revenues are higher than Real Madrid and Man United, your as 'fashionable as they come. Your a mainstream club with global revenues higher than all other clubs

Although I think that's might be the problem. Your revenues are higher than Man Uniteds and Real Madrid..............why.

Do you really think City, the most audited club in world football would be cooking the books right now?

You’re entitled to your opinion of course but to me that would be verging on insanity

 

[Claytop]

Irrefutable evidence wording again used.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

WRONG SPORT!

Sorry - had initially copied that link but only meant to post the second when I realised. Post edited.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

I am the only person that thinks "I was there when we won all our League titles". If someone took them off us (and lets be honest, there is no way it will happen) - I couldn't give a flying fxxk. I experienced that elation of us winning the league and we could hand out all our titles in a raffle, the new winners would get no satisfaction.

Our elation and their suffering happened and some amendments to a Wikipedia page or two won't ever change that.

 

[jrb]

F5 on the OS.

F5! F5! F*cking F5! Refresh! Refesh! Arrrgh! Arrrrrrgh!

 

[MCFC1993]

Didn't this ziegler gobshite have us hung, drawn and quartered with the UEFA ban?

Is he another sportswashing/human rights abuse wanker like the rest of them?

Yeah he was adamant we were to be charged, all the journalists were, even Sam Lee who is closer to the club.

There are very few, if any, sports journalists who are well read on law.

 

[CityDean]

Just thought I bet we will get a transfer ban now aswell. Ffs just when we need to top up the squad. Looks like alot of the EDL boys are getting promoted.

 

[Manchester_City_Blue]

The statement is powerful in that we must be very very confident in our position to be so assured

 

[Dr Jacoby]

F5 on the OS.

F5! F5! F*cking F5! Refresh! Refesh! Arrrgh! Arrrrrrgh!

Nope. We still haven’t signed a left back.

 

[OrigamiNinja]

Im sick to fucking death of this.

The whole “taking a pinch” episode was to end all this shite. At the time a lot of fans wanted the club to go on the offensive but we decided to play nice and look where it has gotten us.

If we had challenged FFP back then, we may have lost, but it would have drawn a line in the sand. Instead we have just had a decade of constant shite thrown at us and now this. It’s so fucking tiresome as a football fan, who just wants to watch his team play football.

I have no expertise in any of this but what worries me here, is that this whole thing is a terrible look for the PL. If we have done what we are accused of, then we have done it right under their noses and won titles doing so. If they win, they also lose. They must know this and yet they’re doing it anyway and that puts the fear of god in me. Stripping of titles is one thing, they can never strip our memories, but sanctions such as relegation would fucking destroy the club as we know it going forward.

 

[Indaparkside]

We don’t give a fuck
Cos the FA’s corrupt
MCFC OK

 

[Cotton Weave Blue]

Up the fucking blues. Siege mentality now. Create hell against villa. Boo everything anti city and make it a fortress.

 

[Sleeping_Easy]

Well that statement has perked me up a bit.

Fuck united, fuck liverpool, fuck arsenal, fuck spurs, fuck the league, fuck uefa, fuck fifa, fuck the media... fuck the whole fucking lot of them

 

[skillman]

Remember when Liverpool hacked our database and the Premier League refused to get involved because it was too long ago...

Cunts. Proper, proper cunts. Both the dippers and the FA. What are the options?

Points deduction? Hand Arsenal the league albeit with an asterisk next to it.

Transfer ban? Rags and dippers close to being taken over so they can spend freely while we can’t (see Chelsea)

Hopefully just blown out of proportion but as your post suggests, it’s inconsistency at its finest. At least now we know where the referees get it from…

 

[Tricky_Trev]

K.20?

Yeah, K.20 is about player image rights, not the grass length as some are incorrectly saying.

 

[Tugay One Cup]

That suggests that the punishments they can hand out are limited, because surely no club would sign up to a competition where the organiser can just destroy your business at will.

We signed Tal Ben Haim. Nothing is off the table.

 

[Maly]

Club Statement:

''Manchester City FC is surprised by the issuing of these alleged breaches of the Premier League Rules, particularly given the extensive engagement and vast amount of detailed materials that the EPL has been provided with.
The Club welcomes the review of this matter by an independent Commission, to impartially consider the comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence that exists in support of its position.
As such we look forward to this matter being put to rest once and for all.''

Seems very relaxed.

A complete, fuck right off response. I like it

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

It's taken 4 years to charge us, if they had concrete evidence we'd have been charged a lot sooner. With Pep mentioning the letter from 8 or 9, this stinks of the cartel clubs applying pressure for us to be charged and found guilty without due process.