PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[hammocity]

Why should share dealing losses be allowable expenses? Theres nothing specific in the rules about this. If I sell my car I can't claim the advertising cost for tax purposes!

Exactly, it's a fiddle.

 

[Blueto]

There's a fundamental flaw in the 'we will have bribed them to get off' slur.
Surely we would have bribed them in the first instance not to allege the breaches and no one is the wiser.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Yes we conspired to break FFP rules before it was invented.

:) For the filing of incorrect accounts allegations, the existence of FFP is irrelevant. The accounts either show a true and fair view or they don't.

But proving it on the balance of probabilities when there was no FFP benefit is more difficult for the PL certainly. The question the panel would be asking is "Why?".

 

[deano ou812]

What’s the odds one of the giddy media will release some made up bollocks about the hearing on the Sunday before we play Arsenal..

 

[Centurions]

She is the chairman, so it would be a step down but I take your point. The club along with our new friend Alison can make sure Masters' replacement is a good one.

Ahh, that's who that was, Alison Brittain. I'd love to know Master's thoughts when he saw her enjoying herself so much at The Etihad.

 

[Jam Tomorrow]

What’s the odds one of the giddy media will release some made up bollocks about the hearing on the Sunday before we play Arsenal..

One hundred percent. Arsenal all that’s good, City all that’s wrong etc etc

 

[Kinkybyname]

There's a fundamental flaw in the 'we will have bribed them to get off' slur.
Surely we would have bribed them in the first instance not to allege the breaches and no one is the wiser.

said that all along

 

[NowInMilnrow]

I raised a similar point earlier.

“Bad faith” seems such an abstract concept how would you prove what someone’s intentions were?

And how would you even measure it?

I’d suggest hacking another club’s scouting database would quite clearly be classed as “bad faith”, but clearly the PL deem that normal practice, dependent only on who hacked and who got hacked.
It is subjective to be sure, there are definite bad faith actions, and definite not bad faith actions, but the borderland between them is very fuzzy. I guess that’s what judges are for - to make that call.

 

[patrickblue]

The Mancini charge will almost certainly be time barred from what I've been led to understand

Doesn't the entire time Mancini was at City predate the rules the PL have charged us with?

 

[deano ou812]

One hundred percent. Arsenal all that’s good, City all that’s wrong etc etc

Yeah something as well like for the good of football we need an arsenal win ..