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Financial Fair Play (FFP)

R

Red Dog in a Forest

Viv Anderson
Villa_Fan said:
Denial = complexity: because when u accuse someone of something and they deny it there will be repercussions if your accusations are proven to be incorrect. The fact that City is denying the charges suggests that the accounts, as presented, do not show a breach. So the burden of proof lies with the accuser. City will no doubt have extremely good legal advice and will make it very difficult for the PL to prove their case. Therefore it is complex and legal process takes time

Some of the charges may be simple: I really can't see how you come to this conclusion. City has denied all charges. It is reasonable to assume that their accounts do not show they have breached PSR thresholds, otherwise they would not deny charges. As such, they are not simple

Secret payments?: Like you, I have no idea. I have not seen the evidence. However, if there was a clear-cut case of secret payments to Pep I would expect that HMRC would be asking Pep to explain tax returns. If there are 'secret payments' they are clearly 'secret' so City will have tried to hide them. Again, not a simple case to prove.

Infringe FFP 15-18: City deny they have so again, it is reasonable to assume the account do not show a breach of threshold and that the FA are looking at nuances and accounting methods. This requires a lot of proof and is difficult against skilled lawyers.

The last thing the FA and PL want is a legal case against City dragging out. Equally, they do not want to accuse them of 115 breaches and for a court to prove that all 115 were incorrect and poor judgment by the FA. They need to get it right. Like everyone else, I do not know the details of the case but my gut feeling is that they are guilty and that they are using expensive lawyers to help them fight it. The FA have a very difficult and expensive task to prove City are guilty
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The owners of Man City (SA) ask the owners of the SA bank (SA) to falsify bank statements.

It’s going to be bloody difficult to prove anything, when they own everything they transact in.
 
R

Red Dog in a Forest

Viv Anderson
Villa_Fan said:
Their claim was that they would have sold players like Gilfy Sigg and others for a huge amount of money and Covid impacted player sales and they weren't able to sell the players. Then when Covid was over the players were worth F All and they claimed the difference between huge money and F All against FFP and got away with it.
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A bit like Harry Arter then?
 
Bonfy177

Bonfy177

LTLF MORON
REDDERS78 said:
He asked his dog, the dog barked a few times and those numbers very closely resembled what the dog barked.
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It’s the dog free a week on Wednesday for the hearing ?

Be good ta have an expert on hand.
 
Redemption

Redemption

One less gobshite...
Bonfy177

Bonfy177

LTLF MORON
I’m shaking like a sh@tting dog at the potential outcomes 🐶
 
S

Stocky Red

First Team Squad
Slightly more upbeat view from another football financial expert on the latest Garibaldi Red podcast

To spare you 25 mins of your life

- Thinks Everton's punishment will be reduced on appeal on basis that it was way too harsh
- Thinks this will have an impact on Forest situation
- Thinks Johnson sale is strong mitigating circumstance

Sorry no dog references
 
Strummer

Strummer

Socialismo O Muerte!
LTLF Minion
There’s an element of the tail wagging the dog when it comes to FFP, as the League seek to artificially limit how teams can spend their own money?
 
Dawg

Dawg

First Team Squad
Strummer said:
There’s an element of the tail wagging the dog when it comes to FFP, as the League seek to artificially limit how teams can spend their own money?
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Enough of the Financial Fur Play jokes now.

This Di Marco bloke is of good Pedigree by all accounts, hopefully a strong case limits any possible punishment.
 
Grass

Grass

Geoff Thomas
Dawg said:
Enough of the Financial Fur Play jokes now.

This Di Marco bloke is of good Pedigree by all accounts, hopefully a strong case limits any possible punishment.
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He wins this case we wall want to be his Chum afterwards
 
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