PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Blue Llama]

You’re assuming all the other players stayed
Which most definitely they wont

Juventus got round that problem by keeping the big stars contracts and loaning them to other clubs.

 

[bluemoon32]

You’re assuming all the other players stayed
Which most definitely they wont

Probably got it in their contracts that they can leave for peanuts if we were ever relegated, it wouldnt just be a year in the Championship and then back to normal, it would set us back years.
Good for us that it aint happening

 

[searsleftpeg]

As a know nowt about all these allegations ,and our response (which puts me in the same bracket as Spitty etc,apart from the faith I have in our owners) I am really looking forward to the complete meltdowns from all our detractors, it will be on a par with 93:20.

 

[levets]

Where are the Billy big bollox legal experts on here that said there was absolutely no grounds for appeal if found guilty? Obviously there is after all

If I remember correctly…. They said there was no appeal to a court of law, just an appeal to the PL and the appeal would be heard by a new commission. This is the route Everton are pursuing I think.

 

[havefaith]

Good god, piss boiling on twitter is on another level today after the Everton announcement, you,d of thought the club would be pressing behind the scenes to get this sorted once and for all. Once we're cleared there's going to be one hell of a melt down.

How people within the club are feeling with amount of shit thrown our way I've no idea, it's certainly draining from a fans perspective I know that.

 

[levets]

2 government have spoken about our case, that says it all. Saudis threaten the security of defence contracts with the UK if the right outcome doesn’t occur. Khaldoon says things amounting to “don’t fk with us”.

Sunak has actually been involved in this mess.

I think it’s now about the PL trying to find an exit strategy that doesn’t embarrass them and they can’t. I reckon they’ll have said “how about a suspended fine” and we’ve just said no, because then we’re guilty, but we’re not, so revoke everything.

I also think we have a dossier of evidence that would quite clearly show the PL try to fix the top 4. We were a massive blow to their little game. Thing is, we now bring in more money than any of the old Sky 4. They should have embraced our investment into the league, country and game in general.

All those clubs who voted in FFP to stop us and Chelsea were signing their own death warrants. They can’t catch up, they’re doomed for eternity because of their own short sightedness.

We couldn’t have been luckier. We are absolutely blessed with the best owners and best management team in the world.

Saudis?

 

[Stoned Rose]

So what’s happening? Are we going to be okay?

No mate.

Stan Collymore and some headcase called Eugene saying we’re going to get bummed.

 

[NorthamptonBlue]

Good god, piss boiling on twitter is on another level today after the Everton announcement, you,d of thought the club would be pressing behind the scenes to get this sorted once and for all. Once we're cleared there's going to be one hell of a melt down.

How people within the club are feeling with amount of shit thrown our way I've no idea, it's certainly draining from a fans perspective I know that.

I must have read 100s of comments today saying that if we are exonerated, it will be because we have expensive lawyers and have been paying bribes. Some fans of other clubs will never accept our innocence. Guess we will just have to live with it.

 

[WillinGlossop]

Can’t say we saw any of City’s CEOs quaking in their boots when we went in the Directors Box for the Young Boys game too many get too wound up over something they know nothing about… loving the bitterness, jealousy and bile in the media… the premier league on the other hand are quaking in their boots about this

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

The right of appeal within the PL rules is before a fresh tribunal not a Court.

Whilst not theoretically impossible, it would be very difficult to get the High Court to overturn any sanction imposed as, unlike with CAS in the UEFA case, they would only have the power to do so over matters of procedure and they would not determine any issues of fact.

Have a read of the Kieran Fallon case mate

 

[Stoned Rose]

2 government have spoken about our case, that says it all. Saudis threaten the security of defence contracts with the UK if the right outcome doesn’t occur. Khaldoon says things amounting to “don’t fk with us”.

Sunak has actually been involved in this mess.

I think it’s now about the PL trying to find an exit strategy that doesn’t embarrass them and they can’t. I reckon they’ll have said “how about a suspended fine” and we’ve just said no, because then we’re guilty, but we’re not, so revoke everything.

I also think we have a dossier of evidence that would quite clearly show the PL try to fix the top 4. We were a massive blow to their little game. Thing is, we now bring in more money than any of the old Sky 4. They should have embraced our investment into the league, country and game in general.

All those clubs who voted in FFP to stop us and Chelsea were signing their own death warrants. They can’t catch up, they’re doomed for eternity because of their own short sightedness.

We couldn’t have been luckier. We are absolutely blessed with the best owners and best management team in the world.

Noughts and crossies.

 

[Nascent Blues]

Unbelievable that people haven’t realised this. Fucking basic English comprehension.

These are the type of people 'Nigerian princes' fucking dream about.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Put it this way, Burnley would have gone down the season after and wouldn't be in the pl now. Any club who couldn't finish above the absolute shower that turn out for Everton don't deserve to be in the premier.

You could put it that way.

But you’d look a bit thick.

 

[Axel Freed]

Lack of quotes on Jules part and lack of reading comprehension from others.

Poor use of punctuation, or lack thereof, is a crime in itself

I've no sympathy for this Jules character

 

[chaddblue]

No mate.

Stan Collymore and some headcase called Eugene saying we’re going to get bummed.

To be fair it wasn’t Eugene..it was the fella he sits in front of on the bus

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

Good god, piss boiling on twitter is on another level today after the Everton announcement, you,d of thought the club would be pressing behind the scenes to get this sorted once and for all. Once we're cleared there's going to be one hell of a melt down.

How people within the club are feeling with amount of shit thrown our way I've no idea, it's certainly draining from a fans perspective I know that.

Have faith ;-)

 

[city saint]

all this shit being called cheating is pathetic.how can spending your own money be cheating.when the red shites were in their pomp they could spend what they liked.bullshit by a cartel

 

[IrishBlueSince92]

What stage is our process at?

 

[rickmcfc]

Genuine question - Untied

2 government have spoken about our case, that says it all. Saudis threaten the security of defence contracts with the UK if the right outcome doesn’t occur. Khaldoon says things amounting to “don’t fk with us”.

Sunak has actually been involved in this mess.

I think it’s now about the PL trying to find an exit strategy that doesn’t embarrass them and they can’t. I reckon they’ll have said “how about a suspended fine” and we’ve just said no, because then we’re guilty, but we’re not, so revoke everything.

I also think we have a dossier of evidence that would quite clearly show the PL try to fix the top 4. We were a massive blow to their little game. Thing is, we now bring in more money than any of the old Sky 4. They should have embraced our investment into the league, country and game in general.

All those clubs who voted in FFP to stop us and Chelsea were signing their own death warrants. They can’t catch up, they’re doomed for eternity because of their own short sightedness.

We couldn’t have been luckier. We are absolutely blessed with the best owners and best management team in the world.

i hope all this is correct and im cracking open a beer as we speak. Sounds good enough to me

 

[blueyorkie]

I know what you mean but disagree. When our owners started to transform the club and demonstrate our business model was working, Arsenal, United and Liverpool had a choice. They could either copy us or try to stop us moving forward with the plan.

Thank God they chose the latter. At the time there were quite a few sports economic papers published pointing this out. Even better they had multiple time periods to review their failed decision and turn back. There was a tipping point about 5 years ago where it was their last chance to catch and then overtake City using their historical popularity to their advantage, and all three carried on down the road to nowhere refusing to invest in their own clubs.

We are now the strongest football club in the World both on and off the pitch.There is no reputational damage at all except in fans heads and the press. The Club, in the time this has been going on, has won 17 major trophies has the highest revenue in football and is the biggest brand overtaking Real Madrid and Barcelona. City are now expanding the area around the stadium in addition to the stadium itself. They own or have a controlling Interest in 13 clubs around the World. Contrast those huge achievements with the clubs that tried to stop us…how have they got on? Did it work?

The red clubs have put enormous effort into trying to stop us and, at the same time, have slipped further and further behind until they are now too late.

So what is left? Surely the supporters of those clubs would be furious at their own club? Well one set is but the others….not so much. What can they do to distract people from their abject failure to tackle City correctly when they had the chance?

The answer is to create a situation whereby fans believe huge reputational damage has been done to City from which they will ultimately never recover. “We called them cheats, we said they had no history, we said nasty owners” It didn’t cost them a penny.

It’s a shame that some of our own fans believe we are losing an important battle but it doesn’t make any difference. City decided to be “best in class” in all areas and it’s worked quicker than they expected because nobody effectively challenged them In the way they thought. Jesus…Khaldoon even told them at one point “we are not responsible for your failures” and “just accept we are here” He was basically saying if you don’t like it copy us If you think you are losing out.

City fans often say why don’t the club sue this person or that person for lying…not a warning, actually do it. The reason they don’t is because City will not get involved in battles that do not matter to them. They focus on the plan and move forward, ever evolving.

City will never tell its own fans not to get upset about the press, they will hope they notice that it hasn’t worked and enjoy the success but, in the end, even that doesn’t matter to them either, it’s not their job.

People will believe what they want to believe but the facts are what matter. City have played it beautifully.

As for the other clubs well they should thank their lucky stars football has loyal customers. In any other businesses their boards would have been fired by the shareholders years ago for failing to respond to the challenge and instead claiming victory by way of reuputational damage while their clubs sank without trace.

It doesn’t look like a big win for them because it isn’t, quite the opposite in fact.

Excellent post