City and Financial Doping | Charged by PL with numerous FFP breaches

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The latest update is that he believes they're currently on a path for a settlement and it won't get to a tribunal. The Premier League have been impressed by the reaction to the charges and how City are now operating.
So city bung the premier league more
Money and it goes away basically. Well, their treble will never be seen as legitimate in the eyes of fans so that’s probably a big enough punishment.
 

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The latest update is that he believes they're currently on a path for a settlement and it won't get to a tribunal. The Premier League have been impressed by the reaction to the charges and how City are now operating.
If there is a “settlement” I’m assuming that means a financial one? In which case does it just go to the PL?
 

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The latest update is that he believes they're currently on a path for a settlement and it won't get to a tribunal. The Premier League have been impressed by the reaction to the charges and how City are now operating.
Almost laughable if it weren't sadly likely true. PL knows they have them over a barrel and City will basically be asking 'how much to make this go away'. Then PL will issue a fine and make out it's a huge unprecedented amount, like £10-20m, and say City are now operating in an excellent manner, all the pundits will wax lyrical about them and no one will be surprised in the slightest.
 

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A settlement? For a categorical obliteration of the rules for 15 years?
That'd be both devastating but hilarious at the same time.
Still, let's wait for something a little more concrete than a random redcafe guy's anonymous mate eh.
 

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Almost laughable if it weren't sadly likely true. PL knows they have them over a barrel and City will basically be asking 'how much to make this go away'. Then PL will issue a fine and make out it's a huge unprecedented amount, like £10-20m, and say City are now operating in an excellent manner, all the pundits will wax lyrical about them and no one will be surprised in the slightest.
That would be the biggest joke of the century. That's how much City sell their youth team players.
 

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How can you have a settlement? Settlement to whom? The clubs your cheating has affected? The league itself? What?
 

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The latest update is that he believes they're currently on a path for a settlement and it won't get to a tribunal. The Premier League have been impressed by the reaction to the charges and how City are now operating.
No way in hell the PL could do that in my opinion. Its basically admitting they expect to lose. It also doesn't work for City at least for me as a City fan. Accepting a settlement, offers City nothing. City have been saying clearly not guilty, a settlement would do nothing to clear their name.

A settlement leaves this hanging over City and makes the PL look like they fabricated 115 charges, both teams are losers.
 

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Where the feck are updates coming from?
Honestly it feels like nonsense. The PL said people will hear nothing until its done, this was from the friend of a Caf poster or something.
 

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This lot are such a soulless club, can't stand them and their pointless empty stadium.
 

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The latest update is that he believes they're currently on a path for a settlement and it won't get to a tribunal. The Premier League have been impressed by the reaction to the charges and how City are now operating.
The Prem are impressed about how City are now operating, still denying all charges and any wrongdoing, while they hold supposedly overwhelming evidence of fraud and financial malpractice?
 

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The Prem are impressed about how City are now operating, still denying all charges and any wrongdoing, while they hold supposedly overwhelming evidence of fraud and financial malpractice?
His "mate" must be a piss-artist down his local. This scenario makes no sense whatsoever.

Someone in the PL legal team would also be under strong confidentiality rules, especially for their most high-profile case. Sounds like a load of nonsense.
 

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Haven't the FA stated that City have been refusing to cooperate with some records as well?
That "news" makes no sense.
 

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Aaaand City's CEO Ferran Soriano is now on the European Clubs’ Association Board until 2027 [BBC]. A step towards softer penalties for the 115 charges?
 

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Aaaand City's CEO Ferran Soriano is now on the European Clubs’ Association Board until 2027 [BBC]. A step towards softer penalties for the 115 charges?
This should never have been allowed to happen, it just gives City more power over European football and a position they can use to force through the abolition of FFP
 

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Aaaand City's CEO Ferran Soriano is now on the European Clubs’ Association Board until 2027 [BBC]. A step towards softer penalties for the 115 charges?
The ECA doesn’t have jurisdiction over the premier league does it?
 

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The ECA doesn’t have jurisdiction over the premier league does it?
Nope, it doesn't have jurisdiction over it formally.

I'm no expert on this obviously, however a lot of the literature suggests that the ECA boasts a lot of influence over UEFA and represents in an outsized manner the interests of the most elite clubs in Europe in a way that’s detrimental to national leagues.
 
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As I have said before - why even bother if we break FFP by signing £20-30 million more than we are allowed to - we are not going to get punished anyway
 

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How much would this be mentioned in the media had it been United who even potentially breached financial regulations?
The state of United’s jacuzzi and kitchen after CR7’s interview had more clicks than City’s FFP breaches
 

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What’s going on with this? Take it they’ve got away with it again?
 

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Can someone correct me if I am wrong, but thought they do not own the stadium?
 

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On another note, that article is why sports washing is very effective.
No mention City are an oil state funded club.
 

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