PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

moomba said:
I know the likes of Arsenal and Liverpool won't care in their desperation to make things difficult for us but I wonder if there are any clubs wavering in their support for Masters and the leagues.

Surely a few will be shitting themselves that APT2 will be ruled illegal and expose them to even more costs.
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You have to question why clubs allow Masters to keep doubling down or why they passed APT2 with the final decision on APT1 was still been decided. For one, the decision to rush through ‘tweaks’ on a ‘minor setback’ must have raised an eyebrow or two with the independent panel and may even have helped nudge them into a more damning decision on APT1. When you are awaiting judgement it makes sense not to piss off those doing the judging.

And that brings us to narrative and why this judgement is important for City and 115. With Leicester smacking the PL over its shoddily drafted rules and City doing the same and more, given the rules drafted were unlawful, it paints a picture of organisational incompetence which the panel on the 115 can lean into with greater comfort then would have been the case if the decisions had gone against Leicester and ourselves and the PL had proven itself to be serious and competent.

I wouldn’t say the outcome of 115 is a certainty, but given recent judgments does anyone really think the PL presented a watertight case against City? The club certainly think they didn’t and the panel sitting in judgement will be aware of the narrative surrounding the PL and its now proven inability to draft rules or even act as an impartial regulator. The outright misrepresentation of the APT1 case, acting unreasonably with some clubs, employing ‘sleight of hand’ etc. The panel no matter how qualified, professional and impartial is only human, and it is always easier to go with the narrative than against.
 
BobKowalski said:
You have to question why clubs allow Masters to keep doubling down or why they passed APT2 with the final decision on APT1 was still been decided. For one, the decision to rush through ‘tweaks’ on a ‘minor setback’ must have raised an eyebrow or two with the independent panel and may even have helped nudge them into a more damning decision on APT1. When you are awaiting judgement it makes sense not to piss off those doing the judging.

And that brings us to narrative and why this judgement is important for City and 115. With Leicester smacking the PL over its shoddily drafted rules and City doing the same and more, given the rules drafted were unlawful, it paints a picture of organisational incompetence which the panel on the 115 can lean into with greater comfort then would have been the case if the decisions had gone against Leicester and ourselves and the PL had proven itself to be serious and competent.

I wouldn’t say the outcome of 115 is a certainty, but given recent judgments does anyone really think the PL presented a watertight case against City? The club certainly think they didn’t and the panel sitting in judgement will be aware of the narrative surrounding the PL and its now proven inability to draft rules or even act as an impartial regulator. The outright misrepresentation of the APT1 case, acting unreasonably with some clubs, employing ‘sleight of hand’ etc. The panel no matter how qualified, professional and impartial is only human, and it is always easier to go with the narrative than against.
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I would have thought the panel will assess it in terms legality rather than "the PL have a poor track record" as fanciful as that is. We all know its true obviously.
 
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