PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I’m basing this on very little, but I disagree.

If the substantive charges are so weak they are dropped and don’t even make it to tribunal (a huge ‘if’ at this point) then it renders the whole case redundant and I can’t imagine any of the lesser charges proceed.

FWIW I think all of the charges will go to tribunal but will be found in City’s favour.

You may well be right. We just don’t have the info to know anything for sure.

 

[ballbag]

We're signing Bob Marley!! Stir it up, mo fos.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

If the charges are dropped there's no way City will accept non co-operation, that would still suggest we were holding something back.

If it came to that and we got a small fine, I think City would likely accept that rather than appeal. It’d be the same as CAS.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Never mind points deduction we should have points added. Cunts

 

[dario2739]

I take it he's sorts of things with a pinch of salt, but there's definitely more than one person saying similar noises are coming out of the club at the moment. Does anyone have more gossip about this?

I'll believe nothing till the official statement

 

[JPAMCR]

We're signing Bob Marley!! Stir it up, mo fos.

I think his ghost hangs around the spirals at half time judging by the smell

 

[Manchester_lalala]

Just to add that I know @Manchester33 outside of this forum and he’s 100% genuine. While I wouldn’t want to go cracking open the champagne until such a time as the verdict is announced and it’s gone our way, this is now 2 totally different sources in the space of a little over 24 hours hinting at the same thing.

Must have missed this post, what did it say?

 

[ballbag]

I think his ghost hangs around the spirals at half time judging by the smell

It ain't just the players on the grass (stolen from Blue Moon book by Mark Hodkinson)

 

[meltonblue]

If the charges are dropped there's no way City will accept non co-operation, that would still suggest we were holding something back.

I don’t think it would, it would just suggest we haven’t been as forthcoming with some things as much as the PL rules state we should be.

It’s not that much different to CAS in that if we’ve provided evidence post the PL investigation that we didn’t provide before, then non co-operation would be a hard thing for us to argue against.

It’s all speculation still though.

 

[bluenova]

If it came to that and we got a small fine, I think City would likely accept that rather than appeal. It’d be the same as CAS.

I'd hope that we get a different result from CAS. I can see why City were fined, as they had openly stopped cooperating, and with CAS saying that the evidence they provided eventually may even have seen UEFA dropping the case, it's essentially a warning not to waste CAS's time.

If City are arguing that they've always cooperated here, then surely there's more hope that the bar for non-cooperation isn't met.