PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Kieran McGuire in the latest Price of Football podcast has said he’s ’seen documents that aren’t in the public domain that shows City inflated its sponsorship revenue’.
I’m calling bullshit on that.
So there’s documentation that shows we’re guilty but it’s not in the public domain.
Why not?
If that were true every man and his dog would’ve have seen it considering how the media have gone after us from day one.
We keep hearing about these so called documents but not one person has leaked these, not one.
I’m also calling bullshit cos McGuire talks out of his arse most of the time and is one of the worst ‘experts’ I’ve heard.
 
Of course he has, the man is a shameless self publicist, does nobody else find it coincidental that whenever they need a football finance 'expert' they ALWAYS call him, he cant be the only football finance expert but i bet a pound to a penny that hes the only one willing to toe the party line and say what the people who pay him need him to say, if any of those documents existed and i very much doubt that they do, id love to see how they are worded and in what context they are shown.

The medias football finance 'expert' has seen documents purported to have been generated by world class businessmen showing illegality and then missed by world leading audit experts, seems likely that doesnt it.
If they exist and have any cogency, they would surely have been presented by the PL as part of their case. We don’t know whether they were or not.
Also worth mentioning that McGuire is no lawyer, so how does he know what they prove? Sounds like the emails all over again.
 
Don't have much time but to cut a long story short this whole issue is a setup rivals maybe not the actual clubs themselves but their backers, sponsors and powerful secret forces who are trying to bring the club down. Masters who is driving the anti- City agenda is obviously their chief corrupt lackey.
The deep state is everywhere.
 
I’m calling bullshit on that.
So there’s documentation that shows we’re guilty but it’s not in the public domain.
Why not?
If that were true every man and his dog would’ve have seen it considering how the media have gone after us from day one.
We keep hearing about these so called documents but not one person has leaked these, not one.
I’m also calling bullshit cos McGuire talks out of his arse most of the time and is one of the worst ‘experts’ I’ve heard.
He is a self appointed expert on football finance that never demonstrates any deep understanding of his subject. He is lightweight.
Has he ever written a serious piece on how football finance could be improved?
 
He is a self appointed expert on football finance that never demonstrates any deep understanding of his subject. He is lightweight.
I watched him on a podcast about a year ago and since then I’ve never taken his word on anything.
He got so much wrong on the podcast, simple stuff and it wasn’t just about City.
To quote Jim Royale ‘expert my arse’
 

“Anyway, Manchester City, what have they done? Apart from being the Enron of football?

Well, this is the accusation which has come from Tebas that Manchester City have artificially inflated their revenues by disguising money from the owners. I have seen some very, very detailed documents which are not in the public domain relating to this, and that's quite intriguing content. I can't go into any details about it.

It's not appropriate to do so, and also it would take up a few hours. But certainly there is a body of opinion still within European football about Manchester City. Tebas feels that they successfully defended their position on appeal at CAS, on a technicality.”

From The Price of Football: Championship clubs vote to tweak PSR rules, Women’s Super League considers scrapping relegation, 6 Mar 2025

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How as Keiran Maguire seen it, if it's not in the public domain
 
He is a self appointed expert on football finance that never demonstrates any deep understanding of his subject. He is lightweight.
Has he ever written a serious piece on how football finance could be improved?
He was heavily involved in the White Paper written for the Football Regulator Bill. He’s spoken at Select Committees in Parliament.
 
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