PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[dadnlad]

I'm abit thick when it comes to this type of stuff.
I don't understand how you can sit through 10 weeks of a hearing and not have made your decision by the end of that.
Why does it need another month or so ?

I'd guess their summing up has to be water tight legally which takes time
Stefan has answered on twitter thread

 

[M18CTID]

If the PL had proof it would have been done and dusted five years ago. And it would have been leaked out in advance. United would not have touched Berrada.

Again, I don't disagree. I guess I'm just a little bit nervy about jumping to positive conclusions if the verdict is out quicker than expected

 

[Prophet of Doom]

We wont need to wait for a judgement. Just wait to see whether we sign a defensive midfielder for £50-£100m in the first week of Jan.

If we do happy days …..if we don’t then start worrying

 

[Gazza]

WTF!

How dare you commoners come on here.

 

[Paladin]

I'm abit thick when it comes to this type of stuff.
I don't understand how you can sit through 10 weeks of a hearing and not have made your decision by the end of that.
Why does it need another month or so ?

Think back to the CAS case. Nearly every decision was 2-1, so these things aren't always clear cut. Think also of juries. They hear all the evidence, and then have to discuss amongst themselves for hours, days, sometimes weeks, trying to reach a common understanding on the legal points.

 

[Stoned Rose]

I'm abit thick.

;)

 

[mancboy]

So they could give the decision now but give their reasons later

absolutely not, when they give their decision they have to justify it from a legal standpoint whatever it may be hence the need to create the document with the reasoning in. They would leave themselves open to all kinds of legal challenges if a decision was given without the requisite reasoning being available to all parties and thats what will taken the time, even if they go ahead and throw out the majority of the charges they have to justify why they have done that in writing and you know what legal people are like (why write 5 words when 500 will do) sorry to all the legal folk but you have to justify your money somehow ;)

 

[CC1]

No it doesn't, although I imagine the panel members have a pretty good idea what they think. Next they have to deliberate together for a while, then write a 500 page reasoning before any announcement. The two parties will get an embargoed copy of the judgment for review before it is announced, but no-one else should know anything until it is made public.

At least three months I imagine. The APT reasoning took three months and that was just 190 pages ......

Arsenal know already :-).

 

[mancboy]

I don't disagree but I do think this has been more watertight that when UEFA were leaking shit

I think even the pl and the blithering idiot they have in charge of it saw that leaking things to the press was only helping citys case and stopped it.

 

[Roachy]

Either way it's win or bust for both parties. If PL wins then we are truly fucked, similarly if City wins then PL top management is fucked.

The stakes are very high here.

Yes, the fallout could be immense.