Premier Lg Man City alleged breaches

[Magma]

Mahrez doesn’t give a s**t, he’s probably the only player that has won a title outside of Man City on the team

dias, gundogan, bernardo silva, ederson, alvarez, akanji, haaland have all won in leagues outside of city

 

[The Cryptkeeper]

Who's the grass?

Yaya?

 

[glenferry23]

Over 100 alleged breaches.

Centurions.

 

[Zidane98]

Over 100 alleged breaches.

Centurions.

What's the chatter amongst your circle of contacts about this glenn?

 

[Bostonian]

Who's the grass?

Man City currently in negotiations with Newcastle to sign the members of staff who dispose of "trouble makers".

 

[Satan]

Who's the grass?

Lawyer x

 

[RPCB]

Over 100 alleged breaches.

Centurions.

11/12, 17/18 and 20/21 Champions?

 

[glenferry23]

What's the chatter amongst your circle of contacts about this glenn?

An ex colleague of mine who was at BDO for a few years knew full well. I doubt this has surprised him, I certainly am not surprised at all at this announcement.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Yaya?

Our academy coach… Daniel really wants 4th you think.

 

[Zidane98]

sure, but how much were the payments? to what companies? how many payments?

anyone bothered yet to look up the rules we've broken?

if the bias at the cas was so great, why did the cas not object as they are allowed to do?

We don't know the exact reasons why a biased CAS panel was allowed but it did happen.

 

[Indie_]

has anyone even been arsed to look up the rules that we've allegedly broken

A brief scan of the initial PL statement and the 17/18 PL handbook suggests that the charges (through 17/18) fall under a few of main categories:

1. Submission of Club Accounts: either City did not submit financial information on time or in an accurate manner regarding their annual revenue in particular.

2. Player & Manager Remuneration: City did not give full details regarding the remuneration of their managers and players.

3. Compliance with UEFA statutes: City did not comply with FFP, a UEFA statute, which is a breach of PL rules.

4. Profitability & Sustainability: City operated in a way that was not sustainable (did not record related party transactions at fair market value, non submission of P&L statements, adjusted earnings before tax being more than a loss of £15/£105m, etc.)

Then post 2017/18 they are being charged with:

5. Non-Cooperation: not providing documents, answering questions, incorrectly claiming confidentiality, not acting in good faith or complying with requests for information.

I'm not really sure what the threshold/framework for proving all of this will be (I'm not an English lawyer), but the nature of the charges isn't too difficult to comprehend. They are alleged to have hidden/misrepresented financial information relating to the club's accounts and remuneration of players/managers, operated in an unsustainable manner, not complied with UEFA rules and not been co-operative to the standard required with the PL.

 

[Bostonian]

I think a severe penalty will kill off any future sportswashing owners aspirations from buying a PL club. Ultimately they want to use it as a soft power vehicle / proxy club and want to be able to exercise their vast financial superiority over the competition. Considering their vast unlimited resources they will not be happy being hamstrung in funding their clubs and won't be able to cook the books.


We may be seeing the end of the sportswashing era unravelling right in front of us. Owners in the future are probably going to come from hedge fund billionaires / paraistes and/or tech billionaires. Nobody else will have the money to fund / buy a club with state backed buyers no longer interested.

Or the price of players and wages come down and you don't need to be as filthy rich as they used to be to create a more competitive league.

 

[UnitedWarrior93]

Just imagine. Will be robbed of the best finish ever. The Aguerooo moment could be invalidated.

Good.

 

[Zidane98]

An ex colleague of mine who was at BDO for a few years knew full well. I doubt this has surprised him, I certainly am not surprised at all at this announcement.

BDO won't have any exposure on this right? They'll just say they published a report on the figures they were given.

 

[RPCB]

 

[Zidane98]

Who's the grass?

What a great response by the club. Find out whoever provided damning evidence to investigators which lead to charges.


What are those individuals supposed to do when questioned by investigators - provide disinformation to protect City? I don't see how a Man City club lead witch hunt against former employees is going to help them in any way. It just makes them look more guilty if anything.

 

[Zidane98]

The ultimate VAR reversal!!!

 

[Bojan KantKick]

Ehh pointless to me. No one will think of them as champions, they never got to celebrate with fans etc.

It's all just a hollow announcement.

Neither did Liverpool. Covid asterisk confirmed.

 

[glenferry23]

BDO won't have any exposure on this right? They'll just say they published a report on the figures they were given.

Yes that would be covered within their standard disclaimers contained in each report. If asked, their position could be that they represented the financial statements at the instruction of their client based on the information they were provided with.

Equally, City could say they were misled/poorly advised etc by their auditors. Either way, not a great look and it’s going to get very messy in the legal fallout.

 

[Bojan KantKick]

seeing as everyone has all the answers here why did it take 4 years to hand all the info to the fa?

Because your lawyers wouldn't hand over the info for that long. Don't worry. You've been charged for that too.

 

[Magma]

Because your lawyers wouldn't hand over the info for that long. Don't worry. You've been charged for that too.

why did they need to go to our lawyers when everyone on the web has the details

 

[DBAH0]

 

[ossie_21]

 

[Bojan KantKick]

why did they need to go to our lawyers when everyone on the web has the details

I'm not sure Google is considered to be solid evidence. Good reason to ask questions though, especially when the other party does everything it can not to comply.

 

[jd2010]

Who's the grass?

Cancelo