PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Prestwich_Blue said:
We had one. A big gambler who accumulated debts owed to some very dodgy people. City were convinced he was match-fixing and even went to the police. It's absolutely not just lower league players.
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if its the same player I am thinking of then he too is mentioned on FiF. I suspect that the guy that runs it is a bit like a magpie and picks up shiny stuff. Most of it will be silver paper but occasionally he will also come across enough gold to keep his claims semi credible.
 
Jesus H Gabz said:
And why they seem to be going through recruitment guys for fun, Michael Edwards quit & his successor followed 6 months later, as well as a few guys that worked under them. This has all been dressed as him taking an extended break from football and he even turned down the Chelsea role, maybe he is just an exhausted 41 year old ?
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Don’t forget Edwards was the prime mover in the LFC war room. I presume he signed an NDA when he left Liverpool.
 
Shirley said:
From the trollograph….some prick called alan tyers….



‘Pannick on the streets of London’, read the banner at Manchester City; a pretty good joke that repoints a lyric from The Smiths to pay tribute to Lord Pannick, who will be representing the club vs the Premier League as they do battle against allegations that they have breached its financial rules.

Time was when fan banners lauded goalscorers and midfield generals and it’s not hard to see why some people find it a bit ridiculous that football fans are lionising a man whose career path into City’s affections was less “youth team and then a loan move to Girona before breaking into the Carabao Cup squad” and more “Hertford College Oxford, called to the Bar, and then appointed a crossbench peer in the House of Lords”. But we are where we are and given that City's solitary acquisition in the January transfer window was 20-year-old Maximo Perrone for the chump-change sum of eight million quid, you can understand why the faithful are desperate to welcome a new hero.

A hard-tackling but cultured legal mind equally adept on the left or the right, Panno – as he is surely known to the lads in the City dressing room – has had previous spells with the Sunday Times in the Spycatcher case, representing kink-shamed fash scion Max Mosley in the European Court of Human Rights, and more recently an appearance on behalf of Isis banter queen Shamima Begum in the Supreme Court.
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Time was when football clubs won their respective league after their chairman had spent whatever the fuck he liked on new players to help him achieve success. I suppose times change...
 
BlueMoonz1977 said:
If there is any evidence that the dippers have committed a campaign as mentioned then they are royally fucked arent they
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It wouldn't get out, of course. There would just be huge turnover of the discredited people and probably a drop-off of performances and team confidence as they can see everything crumbling around them.

Oh, wait a minute ......
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Don’t forget Edwards was the prime mover in the LFC war room. I presume he signed an NDA when he left Liverpool.
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If he was handsomely remunerated yeah, when you think about some of the names & positions that have jumped ship from the top clubs & now the games infrastructure, it’s actually quite astounding, whereas we’ve probably lost a couple of assistants & a few from the academy set up due to natural progression (dipper patsy’s aside) it’s actually quite reassuring to know our set up is solid, consistent and operates with integrity, I’m sure if we where guilty of some of the accusations we have faced, then we would of seen more high profile changes, and overnight which we are seeing across football
 
Paladin said:
It seems to me that the whole plot is starting to unravel. I certainly hope it is.

Mason is new to VAR. He made a mistake, but why should he be made an example of? It's not as though he's the first one to make a mistake in the VAR room. Most probationers would be given further training if they made a significant mistake early in their career.

Webb is new to the job, and is trying to stamp his authority. Well, why has he made an example of newbie Mason. Swarbrick failed to refer the handball by Soucek, which was an equally poor decision. Swarbrick is Head of VAR, and we now have a situation where the Head of VAR has been removed from being a VAR because of he isn't a competent VAR.

There's no logic behind these decisions. Are they scared of what Swarbrick could reveal if he suddenly loses his lucrative job?
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I don’t know if it’s still the case but previously referees who step down are given a payoff in return for signing a compromise agreement - effectively money for silence. Halsey declined the offer I recall.
 
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