PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[gordondaviesmoustache]

They will have come from the disclosure exercise City will have been required to be part of. City will have disclosed thousands of emails and other documents searched by key word, custodian and time ranges.

Has a commercial solicitor even been charged with perverting the course of justice in association with civil disclosure?

I’d say it’s fairly widespread as a practise. Think there’s huge levels of Nelsonian blindness around disclosure. As long as the protagonists have plausible deniability, they are pretty bomb proof.

That’s too low a bar from an enforcement perspective.

 

[dickie davies]

So, when you buy a beer at Co-op you can be sure that a small portion of the revenue eventually finds its way to our friends in Abu Dhabi.

Is that why a pint in the Co-op is the same price as a pint in Abu Dhabi

 

[dickie davies]

The thing is our punishment if found guilty will not just be relegation and fines, They will add spending caps and transfer window bans and could even add no straight promotion for 2 seasons, They will 100% try and stop Manchester City for 10 years or even longer,

Once the Premier League and United and Liverpool have their say City will be lucky even to win the EFL trophy
I think if found guilty they will change the rules for state ownership or involvement in ownership to be banned

The Premier League (United) fuck up big time allowing Sheik Mansour to own Manchester City and not them

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[Keith Moon]

But Juventus they were the top dog running the football over there

We all know Manchester City is not a powerhouse club in the Premier League and has little say in the rules and changes made., We also know United are the main power in the Premier League and don't want us building a history better than theirs,

100% if we are found guilty it will finish Manchester City and Sheik Mansour owning the club, they don't just want punishment us, but they want to finish us and make us that little old city again.

Forget the investment and infrastructure or shareholdings because they will be worthless if found guilty
The scariest thing is it could all end overnight and everything would be a major problem: Manchester City would be left penniless and all the money gone.

Yes the stadium will be finished and over 60.000 capacity, but we would never fill it in the championship and the corporate and hospitality would struggle and it would have to be closed because of the cost of running it on match days.

A Guilty Verdict would be a life sentence

Then they clearly don’t understand the mentality of our friends in Abu Dhabi. They won’t walk away – quite the opposite. It’ll be raining money over the Etihad. I can also see a scenario where Silverlake becomes the majority owner of the club if they try to legislate our current owners out.

 

[jrb]

Then they clearly don’t understand the mentality of our friends in Abu Dhabi. They won’t walk away – quite the opposite. It’ll be raining money over the Etihad. I can also see a scenario where Silverlake becomes the majority owner of the club if they try to legislate our current owners out.

Sheikh Mansour, Khaldoon, etc, will have planned for every scenario the final verdict delivers.

 

[BolinCell]

Sheikh Mansour, Khaldoon, etc, will have planned for every scenario the final verdict delivers.

Pity he hasn't planned for every scenario that's happening on the pitch.

 

[I'm Blue]

Why has this negativity risen it's head again.Seriously have I missed something

It usually cos someone’s heard off a mate of a mate window cleaners brothers dog that we’re guilty and we’re getting deducted points.
I’m not worried cos earlier I took the dogs out and in the woods I bumped into a squirrel riding a unicorn and the squirrel told my dog we’re gonna be alright.
My dog then told me.
Easy this ITK stuff : )

 

[Keith Moon]

Not necessarily. Disclosure in the PL case is massively more. Hence 12 weeks. Thousands of emails and docs

What worries me the most is that Rui Pinto’s lawyer said, “the decision in the UK could be helpful for him in his defence,” and that he’s handed over more documents and data about European clubs – including stuff connected to the City case.

 

[wattle]

The thing is our punishment if found guilty will not just be relegation and fines, They will add spending caps and transfer window bans and could even add no straight promotion for 2 seasons, They will 100% try and stop Manchester City for 10 years or even longer,

Once the Premier League and United and Liverpool have their say City will be lucky even to win the EFL trophy
I think if found guilty they will change the rules for state ownership or involvement in ownership to be banned

The Premier League (United) fuck up big time allowing Sheik Mansour to own Manchester City and not them

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Fuck me mate! Where are you getting this from? Your head? We’re not even going to be found guilty, never mind all those sanctions. They have to prove mass fraud by some of the most influential people and business people in the world to do anything remotely close to that. Don’t do it to yourself. We’ll be just fine

 

[blueloon]

Complacency, reliance on Pep, error.

Totally right. It is not a weakness to admit that the club got things wrong. Failure to do this make us arrogant. The exact thing we have accused other clubs of. I also hope that Pep doesn't become the Arsene Wenger of East Manchester. I would hate his legacy to be ruined and the transition to thr next manager to be made more challenging than it needs to be. I'm certain Pep will call time if he cannot turn things around. One things for sure, everyone is going to need ro re-baseline their expectation on what the squad can achieve this season.