PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[BamberBridgeBlue]

is that you Baldrick

We’ve given Pep a nap sack containing a plastic duck, in case he needs to balance it on his head and hide in a pond. A toy trumpet should he need to curry favour with a small child, and some string to build a trip hazard. Everything is under control.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Based upon how the club have sat on their hands for 2 summers and failed to improve us or at least to maintain us at our peak, it says to me that despite all the unfounded happy clapping over the charges, we are in the shit.
The sale of Alverez is telling in all this
If we think we have problems now, god help us in the years ahead

Please fuck off with your stupid theories and disappear up your own arse.

That is the kind of problem you should be worrying about.

 

[JRockBlues]

Was on skysports the case may not be concluded until after next season wtaf

That’s got to be bollocks surely. Can’t take another 18 months of this shit.

They are factoring in time for an appeal by either side if the verdict doesn't go the way they want.

 

[Oldham Exile]

Based upon how the club have sat on their hands for 2 summers and failed to improve us or at least to maintain us at our peak, it says to me that despite all the unfounded happy clapping over the charges, we are in the shit.
The sale of Alverez is telling in all this
If we think we have problems now, god help us in the years ahead

ffs

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

Based upon how the club have sat on their hands for 2 summers and failed to improve us or at least to maintain us at our peak, it says to me that despite all the unfounded happy clapping over the charges, we are in the shit.
The sale of Alverez is telling in all this
If we think we have problems now, god help us in the years ahead

"Irrefutable evidence"

 

[St Helens Blue (Exiled)]

Has an interesting post history.

100% IMPOSTER.

 

[Keeper!]

"Irrefutable evidence"

And the 115 has worked and done what the rest of the PL wanted.

We have held back in the market and let the others not only catch up but overtake.

Time to strike back with vengeance starting in January and this summer, no messing , pay what's required to bring in elite players.

 

[KS55]

Has nothing to do with the PL when this finishes though . It’s purely in the hands of the Tribunal.

I think the estimate mentioned includes potential appeals.

 

[waspish]

Based upon how the club have sat on their hands for 2 summers and failed to improve us or at least to maintain us at our peak, it says to me that despite all the unfounded happy clapping over the charges, we are in the shit.
The sale of Alverez is telling in all this
If we think we have problems now, god help us in the years ahead

Who did we buy two summers ago? How much did we spend!? Also make reasonable defence of the club on how they tried to fill a backup for Rodri! If you can do that you're worth listening to if not? Well?..

 

[petrusha]

They are factoring in time for an appeal by either side if the verdict doesn't go the way they want.

It appears that the hearing was adjourned last month, but will reconvene later this month for both parties to give their closing arguments. March seems like a reasonable bet for them to produce the final written judgment, given that it will need to be very thorough and be carefully drafted given the importance of the matters they're dealing with.

Who knows, and I may be wrong, but I don't personally see an appeal then dragging on for 12 months more or longer. The appeal might not cover all the issues, and in any event the appeal panel doesn't reexamine all the evidence. It will take the facts established in the first hearing and use that same evidence to establish whether the facts in question were properly assessed, whether any disputed points of law were applied correctly and whether any penalties were fairly set.

The hearing will therefore be quicker than the current one, but it still might not be practicable to hold the appeal until autumn given difficulties with scheduling and so on. But the hearing is likely to be significantly shorter than 10 or 12 weeks, and they may well be able to produce the judgment more quickly than the 3 months we're hypothesising for the current proceedings.

This is obviously all guesswork, but it's at least based on a knowledge of similar procedures to those involved in the current case. And based on that, Christmas or early 2026 might not be a bad punt for the final outcome if there's an appeal. Usual disclaimers apply.