PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Sheikh rattle and roll]

Just heard two dads at my son’s football laughing about Rodri’s injury and their heart bleeds 115 times for them. Holding my tongue is getting difficult.

Well I’m hoping your son is the best player in the team
If so take him to another club
It’s child cruelty making him play with RB

 

[Chris in London]

I’m pretty sceptical that a six-point deduction will have been offered.

I’m hugely sceptical it was offered.

But IF it was, it is not only interesting but rather entertaining to speculate on what that inferences you can draw from it

 

[Chris in London]

But if they wanted us to accept an offer, and cause us ‘guilt by association’ , then they would surely offered us something too good to turn down???! By the way I’m Not disagreeing with anything you say Chris, cos I don’t believe they offered us a deal anyway, my point being why not offer us something we couldn’t turn down if they wanted us to accept??

Maybe they thought they did?

 

[Maly]

When we win this I hope City do the countdown clock on the scoreboard like they did at QPR 115 to zero now that would be piss funny as we pick up 5 in a row

That countdown set a lass off crying in the row in front of me, which almost set me off. It was a perfect fuck you to those bastards for that belittling sign, especially the way the day transpired

Whoever thought of it should be given the freedom of Manchester

 

[HorlockofFiretopMountain]

Why would Etihad need Sheikh Mansour to pay the majority of their sponsorship contract when they were turning over billions of USD per annum? Looks like they can afford to pay it themselves which was confirmed at CAS.

If I recall correctly they had a bit of a sticky patch with significant losses, starting around 2016 and running for a few years. Nearly 2B USD loss in 2016 on an 8B USD turnover. This of course wouldn't have relevance to anything predating 2016, when they were running a profit.

 

[johnnytapia]

I’m pretty sceptical that a six-point deduction will have been offered.

We’d have snapped their hand off.

 

[silva_is_gold]

I know you're not there to defend City. I know you're there to promote yourself. Absolutely no problem with that. In fact it makes your opinions even more valuable to people like me because it means your one of the few people worth listening to.

I'll stress, once again, my gratitude to people like you for sharing your expertise with us, but the fact remains the TS studio is not an environment you're able to thrive in. You are too measured, too polite, too slow to compete with those bastards.

Your strength is the written word and an environment where you have time to make your points to people who will give you a fair hearing.

My only concern is Manchester City, not your hurt feelings about being taken to the cleaners on national radio, yet again.

Fully braced for another thread ban for having the temerity to say anything negative about you, but I stand by the points I've made.

How was he taken to the cleaners on national radio?
Because Simon Jordan spouts total shite about our club not knowing wtaf he's talking about!
Stefen is the only one in our corner & also not being biased because he's a blue himself & spitting out facts as he knows them, Simon Jordan just talks over anyone along with jim white, end of the day without stefen who else we got?
Absolutely NO ONE!
Like he said, he ain't working on behalf of City!
But he knows his stuff alot more than most & I & most other blues 100% appreciate what he does & provides to this platform!!!

 

[FLManc]

We’d have snapped their hand off.

Not if we haven't done anything wrong.

 

[paulchapo]

We’d have snapped their hand off.

Not, if as our chairman says, we're totally innocent. We fought UEFA and won, though that wasn't enough for the media and trolls who still label us as cheats. 99% of these cretins are convinced of our guilt in this case. Accepting a settlement would still leave a cloud over us. It's now Armageddon time for us and a chance to once more clear our name.

 

[johnnytapia]

Not if we haven't done anything wrong.

I think we’d have taken the offer.

 

[johnnytapia]

Not, if as our chairman says, we're totally innocent. We fought UEFA and won, though that wasn't enough for the media and trolls who still label us as cheats. 99% of these cretins are convinced of our guilt in this case. Accepting a settlement would still leave a cloud over us. It's now Armageddon time for us and a chance to once more clear our name.

A six point penalty balanced against the possibility of the IC coming down on us like the proverbial truck: just my opinion but I think we’d take that. And I think our legal advisors would say similar. Just my hunch.

 

[FLManc]

I think we’d have taken the offer.

Sorry.
But if everything is above board, legal, etc (which I think it is)
Why would/should we accept something that seems like a 'deal' to escape punishment for something we haven't done?

I think we’d have taken the offer.

 

[itisrising]

Sorry.
But if everything is above board, legal, etc (which I think it is)
Why would/should we accept something that seems like a 'deal' to escape punishment for something we haven't done?

Because a settlement isn't an admission of guilt, the opportunity cost is too great and the risks too grand to not take it if it ever was offered.

 

[Shirley]

We’d have snapped their hand off.

That’s accepting guilt

 

[mexico1970]

Sorry.
But if everything is above board, legal, etc (which I think it is)
Why would/should we accept something that seems like a 'deal' to escape punishment for something we haven't done?

Every club in the premiership could be found guilty of something, the rules are wrote in such a manner you can be got for something no matter how small.

Now we don't make the rules the PL (red cartel) do and we can't change the rules, all we can do is try to live with them. This isn't some insane fight to the death where honour and glory are left in the sand of an arena this will be a business decision based on what will hurt MCFC the least.

 

[oakiecokie]

Every club in the premiership could be found guilty of something, the rules are wrote in such a manner you can be got for something no matter how small.

Now we don't make the rules the PL (red cartel) do and we can't change the rules, all we can do is try to live with them. This isn't some insane fight to the death where honour and glory are left in the sand of an arena this will be a business decision based on what with hurt MCFC the least.

Our Chairman has said before "we will NOT take another hit" so its a pointless debate.

 

[mexico1970]

Our Chairman has said before "we will NOT take another hit" so its a pointless debate.

He's a businessman mate, he'll take whatever hit he will take for the good of the business, in my humble opinion.

 

[oakiecokie]

He's a businessman mate, he'll take whatever hit he will take for the good of the business, in my humble opinion.

And he`s not a mug.City IMO will never take a hit again. Why ? Because I trust our Chairman.

 

[mexico1970]

And he`s not a mug.City IMO will never take a hit again. Why ? Because I trust our Chairman.

I have little to no faith in anyone but our fans mate.

 

[JewelZee]

I have little to no faith in anyone but our fans mate.

Little to no faith? We'll have to revisit this upon the conclusion of the process...