PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Gorton_Tubster]

This will only stop once every club except utd, lfc, arsenal are punished for something or other.

 

[Paladin]

I'm all in favour of these deals to get round P&SR. The PL have admitted no rules are being broken but that clubs are acting in bad faith. Where is the bad faith and who is its victim? The deal is cost neutral to the clubs involved and no other club suffers. The bad faith appears to come either from other clubs who want the rules to penalise certain clubs for non-football reasons, or from the PL itself who wish to find an excuse to penalise some clubs to benefit others, because no club's sustainability seems to be in doubt (unless it is a club with a burden of debt - but they seem not to be targeted.)

Bad faith? There's a rule against that. We should see some charges brought fairly soon then?

 

[Irlamblue]

We`re Fucked

 

[M18CTID]

We`re Fucked

Thanks for that insightful post

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

We`re Fucked

Any particular reason for this cheery assessment?

 

[solley attwell]

We`re Fucked

Discuss in less than 200 words

Time limit 30 minutes

 

[waspish]

We`re Fucked

Haha this is what's called no one's posted for a few hours on here let's get it going again with a negative post! [emoji23][emoji38]

 

[remember arthur mann]

Haha this is what's called no one's posted for a few hours on here let's get it going again with a negative post! [emoji23][emoji38]

Fair do's.

 

[Irlamblue]

Thanks for that insightful post

Its a fuckin pleasure

 

[BlueRockape]

We`re Fucked

Any more or is that it :)

 

[jimharri]

If you want to score political points, go to the politics forum. Don't do it here.

 

[eyalluvitt]

Like most people on here i hope and believe that our owners have done everything within the rules and that we will be fine when the hearing takes place, I think it is naive to the extreme to think that we havent been creative in our accounting at times (like every business) but this doesnt mean we have committed fraud.

I do however entertain doubts from time to time, when i do i just go onto youtube and look at the drone footage of the work taking place on the stadium. I cant see a situation where this work is undertaken if the club thought we were in any danger of significant punishment. There seems to have been a sea change of late and people are waking up to what is really happening.

All football clubs cook the books to a certain extent & always have done, a four year deep dive CSI investigation into any club on the planet would flag up a multitude of questionable issues

 

[Ethan23]

I check this thread everyday, just in hope that there is no news, think we've got through another day!

 

[Keeper!]

All football clubs cook the books to a certain extent & always have done, a four year deep dive CSI investigation into any club on the planet would flag up a multitude of questionable issues

Every single business known to man cooks their books in one way or another, just don't get greedy and don't get caught.

 

[spider blue]

Every single business known to man cooks their books in one way or another, just don't get greedy and don't get caught.

I can’t imagine any business owner putting a like up for that statement.

 

[mancboy]

Every single business known to man cooks their books in one way or another, just don't get greedy and don't get caught.

Its called creative accounting my friend. its the business equivalent of telling the missus the new car cost half as much as it actually did

 

[I'm no cynic but...]

I check this thread everyday, just in hope that there is no news, think we've got through another day!

The way I sees it, the two cases are linked but are also different. We have been slagged off by the media by going alone and yet its known that other clubs are watching because they are in fear of being caught out with the possibility of exceeding the -£105m 3 year limit and the respective punishments. Clubs are known to be scrambling to sell players 'cheaply' to comply.

Our other case of batting away the 115 charges is different because it's all laid down in writing with every penny being accounted for and the battle ground is centred around interpretation and its legitimacy. City say it's all kosher and its up to the EPL to prove that it isn't. Changing rules after the event isn't right and all the EPL can do is to withdraw the charges and for clubs to get around the table and work out an unambiguous guidelines as to how clubs should operate there finances. And when this is done we can all get back to football which is what we are here for.

 

[Keeper!]

Its called creative accounting my friend. its the business equivalent of telling the missus the new car cost half as much as it actually did

exactly

 

[JewelZee]

Its a fuckin pleasure

Shat ap...

 

[bigA]

All I can say in the matter is this, if a club can afford to buy whoever they want and pay them whatever they want and not go into debt then so be it. But if a club can buy players for big fees, pay them big wages and yet have debts of nearly £1billion and no sanctions are taken then the whole FFP, PSR, APT is then shown up for what it is, a device to protect the red cartel from losing their self entitled position within the Premier League and to be used to curtail or even kill any threat to their position.

The simple answer to all these haters sticking the boot into City is this: Don't get bitter, get your own houses in order and find better investors to fund your club and clear your debts.