The big take from the interview is that Stefan says that if ,and its a big if, we get found to have done what they are accusing us of, then we could be in big trouble and he does admit that it will be very difficult to prove what they are accusing us of.Do you not think the sun have been selective?
I made the mistake of checking the views of the Everton punishment on a couple of my own clubs fan forums & was disappointed, but not surprised, to see that most posters there have swallowed the anti City media bullshit that has been pumped out over many years, hook, line & sinker.I know this may sound like a kamikaze approach but still…
Club said they have irrefutable evidence. Why not publish it on the City website. No need to wait, get the info out there. Show the payments and explanations then watch the fallout. Hit back against the media. I am not saying give the sensitive info that would aid our rivals but just the simple payment structure and the explanation.
We are losing the hearts and minds battle ground anyway.
Nobody but the people involved have that kind of knowledge, what people are alluding to is that IF the pl had to kind of evidence to hang on us for these charges or we believed they did there would be no point requesting an independent commission, also IF the pl had the evidence to back up the charges it would be tantamount to a criminal investigation NOT a civil one.Do you have inside knowledge that there is no “hard evidence”? Nobody on here has much idea what the evidence against us is, we know the charges but the evidence is only disclosed to City…two completely different things. My concern is that since the CAS verdict, the PL have got their hands on additional evidence which now merits them charging us and them feeling more confident about it. However, all the evidence they have needs to be made available to us ahead of the “trial” so there won’t be any bombshells dropped in court.
I'm sure they only included the answers that suited their agenda. I have always found Stefan to be fair and considered. From the start he has highlighted how serious these charges are (which is true) whilst stressing that the burden of proof of guilt in this case is going to be considerable. You can ask him on here if he is 'surrender monkey' though.Reading through this, I'm not surprised Borson is a former advisor to Manchester City.
He sounds like a right surrender monkey & hasn't pointed out a myriad of mitigating circumstances which changes the whole complexion of the charges against us.
Fair enough, I understand the why nots. We could still release a version that is simple to understand while not implicating the club.for two reasons:
1) those are confidential business related documents with regards to our business practices and they arent for everybodys eyes.
2) 99% of people who read them wouldnt understand them and would make even more ridiculous arguments and reasonings without the proper context, i see it my job all the time, everybody wants access to their medical documents with absolute no idea of what they are looking at and then they put 2 and 2 together and come up with the knowing the square root of fuck all and then proceed to get really angry about it.
I think the aim of the PL and UEFA is to make sure their product is valuable and desirable and I guess that wouldn't be the case if you let someone like Newcastle spend £50bn on the best players and they win the league by 20 points each year. So the point of these caps is to ensure we don't basically get a farmer's league, which as you can see has been extremely successful in Germany (hahaha) which is ironically the country where the investigations against City's alleged breaches originated......
I believe that the mud sticking partHard to make something stick if you don’t have the evidence and the Commission behaves professionally.
Mud will stick forever with a lot of the public because they want to believe City are guilty of cheating but that is different.
If the Commission arrives at conclusions that would not be supported in a court of law, then City will do everything they can to end up in a court of law.
IF the club was charged with fraud then realistically people are looking at jail time, this is what really makes me believe that the PL dont have anything, if they had the evidence for these charges they would and should have turned it over to the CPS who could have obtained a legal warrant to turn over everything they needed to prove criminality, why havent they?Fair enough, I understand the why nots. We could still release a version that is simple to understand while not implicating the club.
We publish detailed accounts anyway. So why not explain the image rights and any other smoking gun the premier think they have.
The club if charged with fraud is facing an existential existence. Maybe time we pushed the narrative using our own platform. I am well aware it won’t happen but still it’s a nice thought -:)