PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Fordyboy46]

Tin hats time for all blues travelling to away matches for the rest of the season. Loads of shit coming our way from the neanderthal knobs of rival clubs, starting with those wankers on Wednesday

 

[The perfect fumble]

Lipton has a lot of shit to say and he's a Spurs fan. Another twat with a speech impediment.

He's not my cup of tea.

 

[MCFC1993]

Very good point here:



4 year investigation and they made 6 errors releasing the charges.

It's almost as though something made them rush the statement through...the white tape from the government perhaps? Or other clubs leaning on them?

Either way it's ridiculous that after 4 years the statement had errors in it.

 

[blue whippet]

Former footballer from Ireland calling it out as well https://www.buzz.ie/sport/soccer/premier-league-clubs-dissing-manchester-29193391

Crikey, there is no sitting on the fence there.

 

[Coatigan]

You know what the most interesting, and ironic, part of this whole thing for me is.

You could take his entire press conference, and apply it to an alternattive world or timeline, in which the PL conclude their investigation with finding nothing wrong. And it would Still all be true.

 

[chickaroon]

Is the grass being the wrong length still a charge or was that one of the errors?

I think we can safely say it was one of the errors.

 

[KS55]

It wouldn’t be libellous anyway. It would be Slander :-)

The difference is permanence, so a broadcast is libel as it can be repeated ad infinitum.

 

[dromoreblue]

I'm sure someone can find a gif of a crowd pushing someone who is reluctant to the front of the group who then shits it looking at what he's facing.

Plenty of quotes from unnamed sources. None of them have the balls to put their name to them.

 

[SilverFox2]

Utd. Liverpool, Arsenal etc lose their grip of power and influence once the white paper comes in and is implemented and they know it.

Not only do we support it I'm of the opinion that our Political Power via AD may very well have given a dossier of events we met and incriminating papers we collected to instigate the White Paper.

 

[Coatigan]

Not sure how correct that is. The PL will still exist as an organization and business and competition. It will only lose its ability to self regulate its members and rules. That will be vested in an independent regulator.

So, pretty much what he said then.

 

[Damanino]

very much hoping that the hacking scandal of will come back to the spotlight, and also the asthma issue of the Pool squad will be investigated properly by PL. we need to get these kind of dirts to pop up and have the media create bunch of articles about them.
even is many of them would happily brush in under the carpet.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

No, that was Cucumberus.

Lettuce pray.

 

[halfcenturyup]

I agree the PL will be in a battle to retain their influence if an independent regulator is imposed on football, however any such regulator will need experience of the game at the top level otherwise those representing the top clubs will be able to coerce them into actions for their own benefit.
Is there a person with that experience who could be relied upon to regulate without showing bias? The record of this government suggests they'd appoint David Gill, Arsenne Wegner, Gary the Goatfeeder or Rick Parry.

Bernstein ;)

Connections in government, you say?

 

[Keeper!]

Very good point here:



4 year investigation and they made 6 errors releasing the charges.

It's almost as though something made them rush the statement through...the white tape from the government perhaps? Or other clubs leaning on them?

Either way it's ridiculous that after 4 years the statement had errors in it.

The clubs have been pushing from day one , so it almost certainly related to the independent regulator.

 

[KS55]

‘The financial records’ does not encompass every document imo.

I read a tweet I think from a journo saying “City are trying to drown the PL in paper” Wish I could remember who it was.

 

[pauls]

This just sums them up. If they make mistakes like that in the inquiry we will eat them alive.

Or is this a red herring hoodwinking us into "thinking" they're incompetent and we will fall for it ? lol

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

I am probably going to get shot down but having delivered his brilliant attacks on the PL , media, and the jealousy of the clubs in the PL, I hope Pep now stops with his attacks and puts his efforts into galvanising the team into showing their true capabilities.

I'm sure there have been valid reasons for the iffy displays and results, but a settled and focussed team is now the priority imo.

He has attacked the detractors with his words, but now he has to prove that the players are totally onboard and wanting to prove that we are where we are on merit, and not as suggested by so many, simply because of the money.

Start today by beating Villa solidly and then push on to Arsenal with real conviction.

The supporters are fully behind him and appreciate his conviction, let's prove him right.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

They wanted to do it that way but the Daily Fail applied to the Court to have the charges at least made public as it was in the public interest.

More likely in the Mails financial interest

 

[jim tolmies perm]

Dodging sanctions to benefit their club , but the plebs at the PL won’t turn over that stone , they’re “establishment”. Like Scudamore once said “A successful Manchester United” is good for the premier league , and that comment says it all.

What they did was knowingly deceive the authorities in this case UEFA. Writing off 50m to watch the grass grow at Stanley Park was outright bare faced and blatant deception.They knew eggsakkkly what they were doing was total maleficence.

 

[threespires]

So, other CEOs are reaching out with messages of support to Levy? Pah! Words are cheap. The guy needs some practical assistance not platitudes.

So, if I set up a Just Giving page to raise some money to get him an emotional support animal, will some of you put your hands in your pockets?

I don't know the going rates but if we could raise enough for an emotional support crocodile, that would help the situation with him a lot I think.