BBC reporting City found guilty of 115 charges !

[Hesperus]

Official now from the PL.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c63reg93xwzro

Guilty of ALL serious charges.

[Hesperus]

City statement in response.

https://www.mancity.com/news/club/manchester-city-club-statement-premier-league-63926128

Not a particularly inspiring rebuttal.

[Hesperus]

The wording from the PL is absolutely damming. They haven't held back at all. Sham contracts, lied to our auditors, inflated sponsorships, systemically broke rules for over a decade.

This seems existential for City.

[KunDB]

I think the City statements are looking very hollow presently.

This is dynamite, as if true they have lied to UEFA & CAS, including in my dodgy recollection a signed statement from SM specifically denying sham contracts. The key will be in how they have concluded there is enough evidence that the sponsorship contracts were shams. All sponsorship contracts have come under intense scrutiny over the years since the takeover, so it is shocking to learn they were fake all along.

Points deduction for every year involved I imagine and ask the titles gone for this years. Absolutely sickening for us fans.

It's still great to be a blue.

[Hesperus]

I don't feel great being a blue at the moment.

It's hard to believe the two sides are so far apart. Someone's got this massively wrong.

We're certainly on the back foot now. I hope we come out swinging. That said, part of me is wondering if we've been lied to by the club we love.

[gavin]

Do you trust the Premier League? I don't for a second. They have shown time after time that they are the puppets of the rags, Liverpool and Arsenal among others.

Can I say for certain that City did nothing wrong? Of course not. But I will wait and see. I do not believe in a Premier League process over what City say. I firmly believe that the process has been partisan and so was the setup of the rules in the first place.

[KunDB]

The fact this all boils down to fake sponsorship deals to hide owners investment in the club is concerning.

This was well heard and in by UEFA & CAS. Now we have a rehearing and a different conclusion and outcome that includes breaches of UEFA rules as an offence/s.

City have to prove with evidence that this did not happen, but their is no need for an evidence trail for the accusers (PL) to provide an evidence trail that it did happen. So if the panel chooses to not accept the club there is not much they can do.

I'm not very hopeful. The clubs that have hunted City down for 13 years have finally got their blood.