PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[bladdered]

If what I've heard is true, the PL certainly won't be in any hurry to leak anything.

Richard Masters caught in a compromising situation with Tits out Jackie?

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

Richard Masters caught in a compromising situation with Tits out Jackie?

She can hardly be accused of failing to cooperate.

 

[TheGhost]

Leaks need an outlet and the redshirt cartel can usually rely on its client media for discretion when necessary.

I don’t think anyone is sitting on this story

 

[asahartford1]

So what you’re saying is a hack at the MuEN knows that City have received the result.

But hasn’t broken the next stage of the biggest story in the history of the game.

But he’s decided to drop a one word hint into an article that no one is going to read.

Well it could be true.

Perhaps he bottled it -;)

 

[Xhavenjoe]

Richard Masters caught in a compromising situation with Tits out Jackie?

He's not known as Dickie Masters for nothing

 

[johnny crossan]

I don’t think anyone is sitting on this story

We'll see when the blue wave breaks just how many stories are lined up and ready to go.

 

[asahartford1]

If what I've heard is true, the PL certainly won't be in any hurry to leak anything.

If what you heard is true, you are sitting on a very lucrative scoop my man, and should be making a few quid.
Although it depends if you believe your source, who could also make a butty.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

She can hardly be accused of failing to cooperate.

115...F

 

[calumdown]

I am intrigued on what Khaldoon has to say after it all. Its feels like he is chomping at the bit to be able to speak.... I just hope the media listen.

champing.

chomping means eating.
champing means eagerness.

 

[Gorton_Tubster]

champing.

chomping means eating.
champing means eagerness.

omg, I need shooting

 

[calumdown]

omg, I need shooting

there's a grammar officer on the way round

 

[cheekybids]

I’m saying if a hack at the MUEN knew the outcome.

A) He wouldn’t sit on it.
B) He wouldn’t be dropping single word hints, in paragraph ‘8’ of an article that virtually no one would read.

I don’t believe a hack at the MUEN has it I was simply backing up a principle of journalists sitting on a story. If any did, it’s quite clear which 2 would have from the APT case.

 

[lonestay]

Possibly there is some negotiating going on between City and the prem on as to how the story is managed and released ? The Prem will want everything to be low key and just fade away if they come out of this badly , City will be keen to get the full complete story out there to show the world their innocence, unfortunately we still need to play in the prem league. I would love the prem to be razed to the ground by this, but fear there will be some half way house compromise to allow the prem to have some dignity in defeat, Khaldoon and Mansour are masters of negotiating and will probably get a result that satisfys them and City's needs and wants, just not sure we the fans will feel as satisfied, after all we want blood and prem league bodies piled against the wall with a load of scandal and wrong doing !!!

 

[cheekybids]

Personally, I think the truth lies somewhere in between. I do think we’ve been informed that we are good to go, but official ruling still hasn’t been completed.

I think it’s like the election, the final count isn’t confirmed but both sides knew within hours….

 

[oldius]

Arguably, the season is now over. Has the news been waiting until now?
Looking at my club's behaviour and the words and intentions of internationally serious businessmen, it cannot be that we have any concerns about the outcome of the case.

 

[searsleftpeg]

What you say may be true re. the P.L.,but Koolhand does seem to be determined ,when City are exonerated ,to hold to account those that tried to bring City down. If not the P.L.,then the red top cartel.

 

[cheekybids]

Why would the losing party leak its own catastrophe ahead of a planned response?

I think people standing next to the lifeboats would make people notice they might have a problem ;)

 

[Superace]

I think it's pretty clear that neither side knows the outcome at this stage. Hopefully we'll get a verdict soon though, as this has dragged on for way too long.

I can't see anything to suggest that's the case. Why is it pretty clear?

 

[chaddblue]

I think it's pretty clear that neither side knows the outcome at this stage. Hopefully we'll get a verdict soon though, as this has dragged on for way too long.

To me it’s pretty clear that city know they’ve wiped the floor with them but can’t say anything ahead of the official announcement

 

[BAB.DAB]

I'll tell you what's going through my suspicious mind currently. That the outcome is known and has been for a couple of months. I've said this before and I'm standing by that (until I'm told otherwise). There was too much noise around March time for there not to be some smoke, even if the fire didn't catch hold.

When you read that MEN piece Link (and maybe I'm reading it wrong or with confirmation bias) there's a couple of things that stand out. The first is this phrase -
"it has now been five without a published result". Note that word 'published'. To me that implies there has been a result but it hasn't yet been published. The other thing is Khaldoon's tone, which is "be patient, it's coming". The impression I get from that is he knows the result but things just have to take their course. But what is that course?

I'm going to speculate that this outcome is so bad for one or more parties that they are finished.

For the party most obviously at risk, his employer may have been quietly head-hunting his successor, who might have to be more experienced at crisis-management than marketing. Another party who may be at risk is involved with a club that's had, for them, a successful season by winning a trophy at the end of the season and they didn't want anything to detract from that. Maybe it suits us to wait until the CWC is done and dusted, as we don't want any distractions before then.

As I said, this is pure speculation but could explain the situation.

Dick and Danny