PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[halfcenturyup]

I am quite well read, never watched the Sopranos and am certainly not an intellectual. More an old fart who has collected tons of information due to a long life. Oh, and forgotten most of it.

So, do you deny that, in fact, it's possible you watched The Sopranos but forgot about it subsequently?

 

[Resurrection Joe...]

So, do you deny that, in fact, it's possible you watched The Sopranos but forgot about it subsequently?

 

[Bentheblue]

..and don't forget those of us travelling from the south of the city who will have to contend with the temporary traffic lights at the top end of Piper Street, past McVitie's, up to the Bank on Birdhall Lane.. there's talk it's all going to be one way now..

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Best set off early doors then.

 

[KS55]

So, do you deny that, in fact, it's possible you watched The Sopranos but forgot about it subsequently?

If I think hard I can remember directing it.

 

[Paladin]

I was audited several times by BDO. They are quite thorough.

Who audits auditors?

 

[Asa's left peg]

The Manchester Accountants League are rubbing their hands in anticipation.

One of my old Sunday leagues! Ahh the memories. Refs will be better, though.

 

[oldius]

I am so pleased to see the 5 recommendations to post expulsion (to League One) survival in Football365: I haven't been able to sleep thinking about how we will manage.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Who audits auditors?

UEFA and the PL, apparently.

 

[meltonblue]

Well, obviously we don't know what the club's defence will be, because we don't know what the facts really are, but some things to consider:

If the arrangement was for tax purposes, it is completely normal that the leading employer is involved in the discussions and negotiations around the contracts. After all, arrangements for tax purposes are normally made for the purposes of reducing the employee's tax, so it would be strange if the leading employer wasn't making sure that the details were clean from the point of view of both Mancini and the club in the high tax paying country. These guys don't fart without legal and tax clearance. Same applies to 2009 and 2011.

I am still assuming Mancini had a consultancy contract with AJ before joining City. Why? Based on my recollections from the time when Savage mentioned (in commentary I think) that Mancini had already been advising Khaldoon on football matters and I thought "Oh, that's interesting". I am getting old, but I remember that quite clearly (I think). Granted, the only other "evidence" I can find is the reference to a prior relationship in a Guardian article in December 2009 (iirc). That gives me more comfort that there was an existing relationship than a lack of clear evidence of a relationship persuades me otherwise, especially in view of the Inter clause which would have required a certain subtlety. I fully accept others may draw different conclusions.

I am sure when we know the facts, everything will become clear.

Anyway, I am pretty relaxed about Mancini, I have more concerns about Fordham, purely because I don't have a feel for the contract. You know anywhere where it is explained, at all?

The only thing I found about it was Mancini saying he met them once before they approached him about the City job, which to me suggested the opposite and there was no consultancy agreement in place. You’ve articulated the issue there though, we aren’t the leading employer, they’re completely separate entities and that’s going to be the challenge to argue with the 2011 agreement in particular.

Again I’ll caveat it with if all the leaks are valid.

 

[KS55]

Who audits auditors?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Juvenal). Ancient question to which the answer should be “The people.”