PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Platt Lane 59 said:
Agree with Stefan feeling he was dealing with an intellectual pygmy.
But, he must have known that he would, at best, be misquoted.
Can now understand why City have little interaction with the mainstream media...
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but they do this when Khaldoon does end of season review. negative stories get clicks
it was great piece and got lot of traction
 
dadnlad said:
but they do this when Khaldoon does end of season review. negative stories get clicks
it was great piece and got lot of traction
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I agree that Stefan was very good.
Let's hope the Talk Sport lemmings now realise that Simon Jordan is not a God, but was put back in his box today.
The problem for me, is when other media outlets deliberately cherry pick bits of the discussion, using them as headlines.
I'm not sure that it was a positive move for Stefan to categorically say he thought that relegation was inevitable, if City are found guilty ?
 
Brightwell Bros. said:
It's almost entirely due to Stefan's efforts, and slow going because of it, but he is patiently building a case to anyone who will listen and winning the argument when they decide to listen.
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What he is doing is admirable but he is pissing into the wind when it comes to 99% of window licking Rag dip and arse loving media. Asking Simon Jordan/Carragher their opinions on the 115 charges is like asking Fred West to critique your patio
 
Brightwell Bros. said:
It's almost entirely due to Stefan's efforts, and slow going because of it, but he is patiently building a case to anyone who will listen and winning the argument when they decide to listen.
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I think Stefan is great, he’s fighting the good fight and eloquently outlines the case.

I just think years of smear campaigns, followed by the PL hand grenade(s), have culminated in us being truly despised.

I’d love to say “I don’t give a fuck” like some on here, but it is exhausting and I do miss the days when football was about the football.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
They need to prove we broke their rules. That's all. If they do, it COULD be seen as fraud but I'm still dubious it'd ever get to a proper court. We're not talking about that much money.
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I got fined £170 quid for running on the pitch at Ewood Park in 1995. Extrapolate with inflation and we could be looking at minimum of £243 today. We’re fucked (especially if we get a duty brief as shite as the one I had).
 
Eric Hitchmough said:
I think Stefan is great, he’s fighting the good fight and eloquently outlines the case.

I just think years of smear campaigns, followed by the PL hand grenade(s), have culminated in us being truly despised.

I’d love to say “I don’t give a fuck” like some on here, but it is exhausting and I do miss the days when football was about the football.
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Stop reading the internet. Simple.
 
nmc said:
It’s interesting that everything changed with a few journalists after we won the league title @ Brighton. Many in the media that season had jumped on the Klopp/Anfield /Fenway Sports bandwagon and there was a strong belief that Liverpool would finally win a title… we went on an unbelievable run (as did they) and just sneaked it…. That win put an awful lot of noses out of joint and is at the heart of Liverpool’s problem with City. Liverpool think this should have been their era and they think they should have landed a huge haul of trophies. And if it hadn’t been for City and Pep they would have done - and they really can’t take it… Pep has outperformed Klopp, our squad has outperformed theirs and whenever they have put us under pressure we have prevailed.
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Absolutely spot on, and why that season remains my favourite.

It was a gargantuan sporting achievement, and but for the most marginal of calls we were likely to win the quadruple. But maybe losing to Spurs was a blessing. We will never know.

I’m just so grateful I got to experience all that first hand, one way or another. Leicester with the perfect view for the goal, followed by Brighton in the sun a few days later was sporting nirvana. I’ll never forget my drive down to Brighton, on my own, on a beautiful spring morning, contemplating what a journey the whole thing had been. All of it. Except York away, which I wasn’t present for but I hear was quite well attended.

That team was immense. Winning those last 14 games. Incredible sporting achievement. And they needed every single one. What pressure to withstand.

Absolute fucking giants.
 
Blue Johnny Lee said:
They wouldn’t dare. UAE money is too important for the UK
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I’m never keen on that sentiment tbh. I’ve spent years arguing to fans of other clubs were privately owned rather than state owned but that only means something if they’re treated the exact same as anyone else is. Otherwise it’s an argument that anyone with any state connection shouldn’t be allowed to own football clubs tbh.
 
johnnytapia said:
Stop reading the internet. Simple.
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I actually don’t (other than this place). Deleted social media ages ago, avoid the usual suspects like the plague (Delaney, Harris, Winter, Evans, Jordan).

Tell someone at work or a social event who you support and then lose another hour of your life either defending the club vociferously or trying to laugh off the jibes, depending how much energy you have.

Unfortunately it doesn’t take the internet to convey the hatred and vitriol out there. I got called a “cheat” by a stranger on the street when I was wearing my City hoodie FFS!!
 
115 breaches, nothing more than mud slinging.
If they had anything of any substance they would have put all their focus into pushing that through, just think, if we have basically committed fraud the number of avenues the PL could have investigated. Players, agents, other clubs, executives, media, accountants, auditors and so on. All it would take is for a whistleblower to reveal evidence to back up the claims. In the last 10 years not one single person has come forward, and bare in mind the incentives that would no doubt be on offer should someone step forward.

It does frustrate me that everyone says we need to prove that we are innocent, why?
We have had allegations levelled at us, it is for the PL to prove we have done something wrong, the ownership is on them.
 
Sk@mcfc said:
Stefan Owned that twat Jordan to the point he was actually agreeing with him
You just knew that talk shite were going to run the relegation story though
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Yes - TS were always going to headline the ’relegation’ possibility.
i think the piece went very well by Stefan.
Also, that it has been picked up by other media shows that there is a credible media contributor out there that can speak on this stuff and won’t just play to the obsessed gallery.
Better to have Stefan going on TS and elsewhere, than the usual ‘noun, verb and sports-washing‘ merchants that only demonstrate that they are fans with typewriters and nothing else.
 
I'm no cynic but... said:
But would they REALLY relegate us? For a start, what happens to all the trophies that we won? They could be handed over to those clubs that came second...but those clubs never really won them, did they? So will the followers of those clubs gather in their thousands at Pier Head or Stretford Town Hall to throw bottles and fireworks to celebrate some on-field achievement that they never actually managed? Will those affected players burst out into joyous vocals that they never had room for some years earlier? And what about those clubs that managed to scrape themselves away from relegation purely by getting an unexpected point or two from a league encounter from us? Or those who went down because the defeats they suffered marginally left them with an inferior goal or points difference to a club that was saved for this same reason?
It could change the whole shape of the football league structure in this country, so much so that discontent between clubs other than us will rein for decades into the future.
Meanwhile, if this is what the FA, UEFA and EPL really want then I can only think that the idea of the Super League deserves a re-visit.
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Not sure how you think being relegated means we have to give up our trophies?
 
Eric Hitchmough said:
I think Stefan is great, he’s fighting the good fight and eloquently outlines the case.

I just think years of smear campaigns, followed by the PL hand grenade(s), have culminated in us being truly despised.

I’d love to say “I don’t give a fuck” like some on here, but it is exhausting and I do miss the days when football was about the football.
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Man up.
so fucking what - serial winners are always hated.

We are going to win the league .
 
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