PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Hes the left back remember said:
Who are the actual individuals who are the decision makers in the PL? The ones who have issued the list of charges? We keep reading the PL have said this and that etc but obviously there must be people driving this
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Ultimately the Chair of the PL will have had to sign off the charges is my guess. And they are a Man Utd fan strangely. However, lawyers and accountants will have put the potential charges together. The PL board then had to signed off the final charges against us is my guess again.
 
chickaroon said:
Just looked at Daniel Levy connections.
He is on the board of the ECA (European Club Association) whos Chair is Nasser Al-Khelaifi and comes far Qatar. He owns PSG and did have talks with Levy, apparently, re investment in Spurs. When Martin Edwards left his seat on the ECA board, both Levy and our own Ferran Soriano applied for the seat. Levy got it, with the backing of, Utd, Liverpool and Arsenal. There's a surprise. At one time he was on the UEFA Professional Football Strategy Council, not sure if he still is.
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The ECA website says its reps on the PFSC are van der Sar (Ajax) and Lawwell (Celtic).
UEFA listing also suggests Monaco and Leverkusen are the other two as of July 2022

Levy is still on the ECA executive board.
 
Big Dave Watson said:
Thanks for clarification.

So if the evidence clearly shows ‘not guilty’ it still has to be voted on? Doesn’t say much for the one that voted ’guilty’ then in that case.
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The only way you know that the evidence shows not guilty is the vote. Guilty/not guilty is an opinion.
 
Jam Tomorrow said:

Arsenal 'in multi-million tax dodge'

The high-profile divorce of Arsenal star Ray Parlour has exposed a multi-million-pound tax dodge at the country's top football club, it was reported last night.
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk


i asked last night if someone can get this in front of the club or media or can someone get this on Martin Keown’s twitter page? It’s basically Arsenal doing on an industrial scale what we are alleged to have done for Mancini . @Ric

Keown was part of the so called invincible team when this was going on and yesterday talked up the City “scandal”
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Asterisk next to that gold trophy then
 
Right wing playbook.. probably makes sense why its being copied by the American owners..

Keep repeating the same false beliefs again and again as if it'll somehow be wished into being true and have wall to wall coverage on TV as if we have stolen their righteous spots.

Sadly some people are just brainwashed into hating us and will never ever side with us.



Stop worrying about them and the media's toxicity. They will not relent!

I've done a lot of blocking on social media over the last week for just my mental well being.. we need positivity in our lives!

Only listen to true blues now!
 
malg said:
It says in that article that the practice was legal but widely condemned. Unsure what anyone can do about it if it is legal, apart from mud sling, but I'd imagine they're not the only club finding tax loopholes that are unsavoury to yer man in the street but legal.
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And 19 years ago!
Things may have been tightened up since.
It's really not a lot of use as evidence in 2023.
 
who decides what to investigate? does a club have to make a formal complaint? Can a member of the public make an allegation against arsenal for the tax dodge and the PL have to then investigate?
 
Jam Tomorrow said:
City haven’t been accused of doing anything illegal to my knowledge, it’s all by intimation.
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Surely we have (been accused of)? The charges for most years are for not providing accounts by the relevant date. Either we haven’t provided them at all for 9 out of 15 years and the pl have somehow only just noticed after a 4 year investigation.. or we have provided them and they claim they’ve been falsified. If they allege we’ve provided falsified accounts that’s surely a legal matter. Which is all the more bizarre that the pl have uncovered this and not HMRC
 
Northblue said:
Surely we have (been accused of)? The charges for most years are for not providing accounts by the relevant date. Either we haven’t provided them at all for 9 out of 15 years and the pl have somehow only just noticed after a 4 year investigation.. or we have provided them and they claim they’ve been falsified. If they allege we’ve provided falsified accounts that’s surely a legal matter. Which is all the more bizarre that the pl have uncovered this and not HMRC
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We've been charged with not adhering to PL rules.
The PL can't accuse anyone of fraud.
 
Northblue said:
Surely we have (been accused of)? The charges for most years are for not providing accounts by the relevant date. Either we haven’t provided them at all for 9 out of 15 years and the pl have somehow only just noticed after a 4 year investigation.. or we have provided them and they claim they’ve been falsified. If they allege we’ve provided falsified accounts that’s surely a legal matter. Which is all the more bizarre that the pl have uncovered this and not HMRC
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The alleged breaches include one that we didn't "provide annual accounts that comply with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements." I raised a few days ago that this may just mean that we didn't comply with PL rules for some supplementary information (PL rules being a regulatory requirement), but was shot down by people on here who know the most about it, who said that, if the charges are the same as at CAS (plus one or two others, which they very probably are), Etihad for example that we were disguising equity funding as sponsorship income, then that would imply fraud.

I am not necessarily sure I agree, but I am not a lawyer.
 
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