PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Superace]

Well I did say that in paragraph 2 of the post you quoted mate

Oh I understand that, I just wouldn't of bothered posting something that's clearly untrue.

 

[StillBluessinceHydeRoad]

I'm not normally a conspiracy theorist, it's true. I just see a lot of factors at play here that point in such a direction.

I recall that it was widely reported that Masters was interviewed by Manchester United and Liverpool before taking his current job.

Martin Samuel, among others, has reported that those clubs have been two of the most virulent of the several that have been pressuring the PL over many years to investigate and then take action against City.

Executives from rival clubs certainly aren't shy of giving anonymous briefings to select favoured journalists about the swingeing, extravagant and unprecedented punishments they'd like to see applied in this case. Many of those thus mooted would be catastrophic for City in terms of maintaining a place among the English game's leading clubs.

Having conducted an investigation into City over a period of several years with wide powers to demand documents and information from the club, the PL will definitely have far more evidence at its disposal than did UEFA during its disciplinary case against MCFC,

Masters and the rest of the PL leadership are fighting for their professional lives, as perceived failure in this case would almost certainly see them lose office. They have nothing to lose by fighting this case as hard as they possibly can.

All those factors suggest only one thing to me, which is that these proceedings involve the PL trying to hammer City and the club is fighting if not for survival then at least to avoid consequences that could be disastrous.

The feeling within the game is overwhelmingly hostile to City, though we perhaps have more allies than we once did. IMO the general sentiment is that we must have cheated somehow to have made the progress we've shown under Mansour.

The traditional top clubs hate us for coming along and hoovering trophies that they think should be theirs by rights. They'd love to see a really draconian punishment, obviously.

However, they also seem to have persuaded other clubs that we're cheats, so any such penalty would be deserved while it's also just for us to be regarded as a pariah.

This is despite the fact that the PL has dredged back years to find matters to accuse us of. FFS, the formal accusations came in 2023 and some relate to a circumstances in place in a season that began not in the previous decade but the one before that.

No one seems interested in the fact that the most serious accusation reported relates to a sponsorship contract under which the club has been proven to have supplied the services in question, the services were paid for and UEFA's experts deemed the arrangement to be at a fair value.

IF ADUG funnelled cash into MCFC by disguised equity contributions by paying the sponsorship fees under the above contract, that deprived the club of the right to obtain revenue by seeking a different shirt sponsor as well as other naming rights partners for the stadium and training ground, meaning we were barely up on the deal if at all.

No one will tell you this. No, all you'll read about is how City vastly inflated sponsorship deals to help money flow into the club. UEFA, acting in the utmost bad faith and having decided that the scenario had occurred, regarded it as meriting a two-season ban from their competitions.

The PL, meanwhile, having introduced APT rules that clearly have a potential to affect City adversely, has also shown malice and perfidy at every turn, deliberately delaying its responses to City's application for consent and withholding the rationale for its decision.

Both UEFA and the PL have leaked like the proverbial sieves, channelling information detrimental to MCFC to client journalists who've relished the opportunity to act as opinion leaders with regard to the club.

I could go on as there's more to say, but I still have work to do and it's already getting late where I am. But a conspiracy? Yes, absolutely.

The football authorities have acted both venally and amateurishly with regard to MCFC matters, incited by rival clubs acting in accordance with their own naked self-interest and backed by vacuous cheerleading from most in the media. All of them have been in it together (and I despise them for it).

If we could get to the other side of this 115 case with no serious sanction or stain on our reputation in the eyes of erudite and discerning observers, it'd be epic.

Some say our club will remain tarnished in the eyes of others even with a positive outcome. I beg to differ. Many people may take such a view but none will whose opinion deserves our respect.

We'd have a fantastic story to tell: they came for us and tried to destroy us, but we were too smart for them and they weren't half as clever as they thought. I do hope that those at the top of the club would be up for that PR battle.

Wow! A laser guided post that hits every culpable nail on the head. Please tell us all what more you have to say, and please keep posting - your view on what is happening and what might be happening is life blood to all Blues.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

Maybe Pep can joke that we would have got VVD and Salah if we didn't get hacked!? oh and laugh while saying it! That seems to get the people in the press conference all giggling along..

When the 115 verdict comes out, regardless of the result:
'If they'd thought they could blame us for killing 39 opposition fans, they would have probably tried to pin that on us as well...joke joke...'

 

[deano ou812]

Maybe he picked it up wrong and we are getting awarded 40 points ;-)

 

[Withnail]

Delooney’s Independent article also claiming this is likely to be done and dusted by February, albeit an appeal from either side would drag it to the summer.

Can’t fucking wait for it to be over.

My rag mate will be devastated, he keeps on posting Magic Twat's twitter bile on a WhatsApp group I'm in and he seems to think we are North West Counties League bound.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

My rag mate will be devastated, he keeps on posting Magic Twat's twitter bile on a WhatsApp group I'm in and he seems to think we are North West Counties League bound.

I’ve just had another seance with Lord Goff of Chieveley and he told me to tell you that your rag mate is a ****.

 

[Stoned Rose]

From Delooney in the Independent today:

While a minority within the Premier League are pushing for expulsion if the most serious charges are proven, that is currently seen as an unlikely possibility. Such an outcome would require a special shareholders meeting and vote of 15.

Is that correct?? There is a (slim) chance that our future could be decided by a vote in a room full of executives who predominantly despise us?

So the other teams would vote in the punishment?

Don’t recall that happening with Everton, Forest and Leicester.

Utter bollocks.

 

[Stoned Rose]

I’ve just had another seance with Lord Goff of Chieveley and he told me to tell you that your rag mate is a ****.

Pics of Lord Goff?

 

[decmancity]

So the other teams would vote in the punishment?

Don’t recall that happening with Everton, Forest and Leicester.

Utter bollocks.

Those clubs weren't facing expulsion.

 

[Stoned Rose]

A pleonasm is a figure of speech where redundant or unnecessary words are used to express an idea, often for emphasis or stylistic effect. In simpler terms, it involves the use of more words than are strictly needed.

Lovely word, adding that to my extremely low breadth of vocabulary.

@gordondaviesmoustache is highly pleonasmic. He can have 3 in a night even at his age.