PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[remember arthur mann]

i've always thought the no cooperation will be something city will be found guilty of

They want to go through our books to see how we've became so successful. Tell em to fook off.

 

[Nephin Man]

That's what I am hoping - not expecting - as well. The various court cases requiring the co-operation required by the rules, the changes in the the rulebook during the investigation around 3rd party evidence, the apparent appeal by the club against (possibly) applying these new rules, and so on all give me a degree of confidence that, at least, the question of non-cooperation may not be straight forward for the PL.

This also ties into my theory (that nobody else shares) that the club has manipulated the availability of 3rd party evidence to get all these allegations settled in an independent environment. If I am right, we will see soon enough if the club was right to do that. If I am wrong, who cares?

:)

With regards to co-operation, surely City provided the PL with all the evidence they were ordered to by the court. So for which period are we talking about? Presumably before that court order. But then didn't the court also rule that City weren't required to provide everything the PL had requested? Couldn't City argue that the court needed to clarify what had to be passed over to protect the club from fishing?

 

[Nightmare Walking]

If APT is anything to go by the PL will claim victory whatever the result.

They can claim all they want. If we get a £10 million fine for not co-operating, but nothing else. No one is going to take the Premier League seriously if they claim a victory. Especially after how stupid they made themselves look with the APT case.

 

[KS55]

It feels like the whole “non-cooperation” BS will be hung around our necks regardless of a possible “successful outcome” for City, so it’ll be “Well, you were definitely hiding something, but the lawyers got you off on a technicality again, so you just got a fine. But, you don’t get fined if you’re not guilty, so GUILTY YOU ARE!!”

I’m not sure why we care what TROLLS think, but if City are found guilty of even some of the more serious accusations, it will be a dark day at the Etihad!

That’s a book title: Dark Day at the Etihad, a thriller by Len Deighton.
“The detritus of the game lay scattered around me; a pie tray, some congealed chip gravy, a Bovril cup. I could not believe City had been relegated with the last kick of the game against dirty Leeds despite spending £550m on renewing the squad. We had struggled under our new manager, Steve Bruce, who had replaced Pep after a boardroom coup led by the mysterious Mr. Borson. It was a dark day at the Etihad.”

 

[remember arthur mann]

It’ll all be happening soon enough, emails like this don’t get sent out unless they’ve been given the nod it’s imminent, imo. We all know what it’s like receiving many emails, just like proverbial chip paper they slip down your inbox/become a relatively distant memory the following day etc.

 

[Stoned Rose]

That’s a book title: Dark Day at the Etihad, a thriller by Len Deighton.
“The detritus of the game lay scattered around me; a pie tray, some congealed chip gravy, a Bovril cup. I could not believe City had been relegated with the last kick of the game against dirty Leeds despite spending £550m on renewing the squad. We had struggled under our new manager, Steve Bruce who had replaced Pep after a boardroom coup led by Ray Ranson. It was a dark day at the Etihad.”

And £551m on your half time scran.

 

[its a Barm]

That’s a book title: Dark Day at the Etihad, a thriller by Len Deighton.
“The detritus of the game lay scattered around me; a pie tray, some congealed chip gravy, a Bovril cup. I could not believe City had been relegated with the last kick of the game against dirty Leeds despite spending £550m on renewing the squad. We had struggled under our new manager, Steve Bruce who had replaced Pep after a boardroom coup led by Ray Ranson. It was a dark day at the Etihad.”

That's not funny please don't post stuff like that again or I will insist you get a ban.

 

[Coatigan]

FWIW I don’t believe City sent any letters of the type 1894 refer to, I don’t believe Sky have any idea as to the outcome, I don’t believe there is any particular reason for the briefing note aside from it being a huge story when it finally comes out.

With you on that apart from the last sentence. There is clearly a reason, otherwise they wouldn't have done it. That reason probably being that they are aware that they as an organisation have been very relaxed with punditry in the past. But maybe not much more than that.

 

[TheGhost]

They can claim all they want. If we get a £10 million fine for not co-operating, but nothing else. No one is going to take the Premier League seriously if they claim a victory. Especially after how stupid they made themselves look with the APT case.

Surely it’s a pretty binary guilty or not guilty on each of the charges?

 

[Big mals fedora]

IF he's still in his current position in May I wonder if he'll turn up to present the trophy?

Fucking shithouse.

Well he won’t be presenting it at the etihad!!

 

[KS55]

That's not funny please don't post stuff like that again or I will insist you get a ban.

I shall insist on writing and posting the entire book. You will be amazed how Petrusha solves the case.

 

[Chappie]

yeah that's a very good point i would prefer a full exoneration put it all to bed even though you know rival fans will say we bought are way out and i know how you feel it's not doing me any good constantly refreshing

Here's a question for those rival fan's.
If we have bought our way out of the Premier League chargeses, who at the Premier league have we paid and will they be paying tax on their new found wealth ?

 

[TheGhost]

Seems to be some "sources" on Twitter and Reddit who are claiming we have won the case. Anybody in the know on this on this board?

Thanks Mr Shush. When I woke up for a piss at 4am, and had a quick peek at this thread to see if there was any breaking news, this post sent me happily back to sleep. I didn’t read anything else

 

[Sir peace frog]

it is 770 days since this first post on this thread.
the day it all began.

777 has huge importance in numerology.
it signifies embracing silence and trusting in a positive outcome.
it is considered an auspicious sign and good luck
(auspicious means promising future success, favourable).

7-7-7 is used on most slot machines as the winning jackpot.

7 days to go

770 days, we've won the champions league, world club cup, a treble and 4 in a row, fuck em all

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

A fair point.

But I am wondering why he made that comment in the first place when he has previously been reasonable towards us.

Tim Sherwood is not exactly Gore Vidal is the answer.

 

[M18CTID]

I don’t know whether statute allows it or not but I hope we sue a few for constant targets and defamation and we should go after the irrelevant big club called Tottenham Hotspurs for starters

Remember Pep name-checked Levy just after news of the charges broke. He doesn’t do that for no reason so I’d assume we have dirt on that **** in particular

 

[cheekybids]

Remember Pep name-checked Levy just after news of the charges broke. He doesn’t do that for no reason so I’d assume we have dirt on that **** in particular

Well his boss found out.

 

[Nephin Man]

Remember Pep name-checked Levy just after news of the charges broke. He doesn’t do that for no reason so I’d assume we have dirt on that **** in particular

Not forgetting Joe Lewis then got done for insider trading.

 

[MarsLlama]

Purely a gut feeling but the part in that email about ‘when the verdict drops in the next month or so’ feels more like ‘it’s happening very soon but we don’t want to make it obvious that we’ve already been told the outcome’.

 

[KS55]

Surely it’s a pretty binary guilty or not guilty on each of the charges?

Proved or not proved. No guilt involved.