Kangaroo panel finds us guilty

[Swales4ever]

Did not take long for the PL to confirm us guilty as charged.

and still no punishment cleared, nor what charge was rejected.
I get the confidentiality but the drums will continue beating like Bonham in acid.

[sharkey]

Official statement from premier league.... Does not make great reading:


Premier League Statement: Manchester City FC
Premier League statement
29 Sep 2026

An independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.

The independent Commission found that between Seasons 2009/10 and 2017/18:
- Manchester City arranged ‘sham’ contracts (which misrepresented the true agreement between the parties) with a number of its commercial partners, as well as relying on ‘sham’ agreements with others, to artificially inflate the club’s revenues and reduce its costs
- The club filed misstated accounts and concealed the true state of its finances from its auditors and football regulators
- Manchester City was significantly in breach of both the Premier League’s and UEFA’s spending limits
- During the Premier League’s investigation, Manchester City committed multiple breaches of its duties of co-operation and utmost good faith towards the League (three of the four alleged breaches were upheld)

The independent Commission found that Manchester City arranged ‘sham’ commercial deals with a number of its sponsors during the period, which were part of a disguised funding scheme, whereby those companies were only required to pay a portion of the relevant sponsorship fees. The remainder was funded by Abu Dhabi United Group Investment & Development Ltd (ADUG), which owned the club. As part of the scheme, further ‘sham’ arrangements, funded by ADUG, were entered into to enable the club to record lower operating expenses than it actually incurred, as well as a ‘sham’ circular arrangement with Fordham, an entity that purchased the club’s players’ image rights, that was funded by ADUG.

The purpose of these schemes was found to have been to artificially inflate the club’s revenues, and reduce its costs, by more than £900 million during the affected period, to appear to comply with financial rules. The consequence of this, as the Commission found, was that the club filed misstated accounts and concealed the true state of its finances from its auditors and football regulators. The Commission concluded that ‘by its conduct the club clearly intended to circumvent the PL Rules‘.

As a result, Manchester City failed to accurately report its income and expenditure for the purposes of the Premier League’s Profitability and Sustainability Rules and UEFA’s Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Rules. The Commission found that, had all of the relevant agreements been reported accurately in the club’s accounts, it would have been in breach of both the League’s and UEFA’s spending limits by a very substantial amount.

In addition, during the course of the four-year investigation conducted by the Premier League, the club committed multiple breaches of its duties of co-operation and utmost good faith towards the League. The Commission concluded that the club had ‘made concerted efforts to stop and frustrate the PL investigation’.

Richard Masters, Chief Executive of the Premier League, said: “The core decision establishes the facts of what happened at Manchester City during this period. It details how the club systematically broke Premier League Rules for nearly a decade.

“It also vindicates the Premier League’s decision to pursue this case against Manchester City. While the process to date has been both long and difficult, the League has remained determined that the facts be established independently.

“It is a key responsibility of the Premier League to ensure that the Rules, approved by the clubs themselves, are upheld to protect the integrity of the competition. It is paramount that the League remains competitive and fair for all clubs and for the fans. We take that role extremely seriously.

“This disciplinary case, and this decision, are the most significant in Premier League history. There are elements of the case that remain to be decided, including, importantly, what sanction must follow for these breaches. Now we have the Commission’s decision, we are committed to moving swiftly through the remainder of the process, to provide certainty for the League, our clubs and fans.”

The independent Commission’s findings are set out in a Core Decision, of which a redacted version has been published (click here). The Commission’s award comprises both the Core Decision and a large number of additional appendices, which the League is committed to publishing as soon as it is able.

The League is able to publish the Core Decision because the Commission has ruled (and an Appeal Board has confirmed) that the Commission’s decision is a ‘final award’.

Now that the charges have been proved, the issue of sanction will be addressed separately in a further hearing with the independent Commission. In accordance with Premier League rules, that hearing will remain private and confidential until such a time as publication of the outcome is permitted.

The club has the right to appeal the independent Commission’s findings and has until Friday 2 October to exercise that right.

The Premier League Board’s intention is that the full process (including any appeals and publication of relevant decisions) is concluded as soon as possible.

[Hazy2]

Did not take long for the PL to confirm us guilty as charged.

Hough end here we come !!!

[sheblue]

Club statement still defiant. If there is irrefutable evidence might be time to show it rather than talk about it.

[Harry Dowd scored]

Strong language from PL it don’t look good does it ?

[john@staustell]

Club statement still defiant. If there is irrefutable evidence might be time to show it rather than talk about it.

We are very good at statements. Time for action

[sheblue]

Club statement still defiant. If there is irrefutable evidence might be time to show it rather than talk about it.

We are very good at statements. Time for action

I am afraid its all just talk.

[Nick]

Damning wording.

Put up or short up city

[Swales4ever]

Club statement still defiant. If there is irrefutable evidence might be time to show it rather than talk about it.

We are very good at statements. Time for action

Understand the anger.
I am sure the Club is doing and will take all the strongest actions available and suitable.
Time frames and conditions of such proceedings can result frustrating for us fans ( me included) but I keep seeing carefully redacted actions even in those statements. Imho, it's all part of a carefully constructed action, constantly advised by the lawyers, in order to drop the bombshell at the suitable moment (be it the Arbitration stage or the High Court).
It will take time, probably long, and lot of patience from us fans.
I trust the Club and remain very confident on the final outcome.
Up the Blues and "sursum corda", mates.

[craigmcfc]

It's gonna take one hell of an appeal to go from a 900 million fraud to not guilty

[salford city]

It's gonna take one hell of an appeal to go from a 900 million fraud to not guilty

The figures don't make great reading. The beeb are loving this.
Well, we now know what the PL have on the table, what have we got in our 'irrefutable evidence' drawer. I hope it is on camera and suitable to be shown in a court of law. Loving the 'sham' contracts - that could prove to be embarassing for one side or the other. You would like to think we are a tad smarter than that but that's a fucking big statementfor the PL to make without backing it up.

[mr_nool]

Fuck me Tony Pulis now saying Stoke should have the FA cup awarded to them because we cheated them out of it. You really couldn’t make this shit up.

Cant recall narky Tony ever saying anything even remotely positive about us, not at all bitter over the play off is he.

It's because we beat them in the Cup final he thinks it should be awarded to Stoke because we cheated

As if they would've besten the Rags in the final ...

[mr_nool]

Today I woke up thinking of this whole shit (as I do almost every day since it broke).
Now, please pay attention for a moment to my background: I was breed by a family who cherished the British civilisation as the benchmark, the pinnacle of western values (and I can now ear most of you laughing at this strange kind of weirdo).Then I came to England, first as a teenager making small jobs and learning the language. Later as a postgraduate student and working inside the marine insurance business. There I saw you are normal human beings but still embodied with remarkable traits, like respect for the rules, appreciative of cool understatement, and several others which I respect the most.

Now, after the initial moment where my proud, confrontational nature prevailed, the more I digest all this hysterical mob lynch, the most I feel shocked and astonished, mainly thinking about the neutrals.
And I am perfectly aware of how passionate you Englishmen are about your football, and how intertwined clubs are with the communities.
STILL, WTF, let's assume for a moment that City's directors are actually guilty as charged, still what the actual fock, they are not serial rapists of children!!!
I mean, such level of hatred is unprecedented since the Nazies were bombing England every day! It's unreal, and Carl says above how is it possible that none, amongst normal people, does realise that is only matter of time, before something dramatically outrageous happens!

And please do not reply with clichés like broken England and nonsense like that.
outraged rant over.

It's built into the British psyche to be fucking insanely jealous of anyone having more/better than you - we love a winner - until they make lots of money - then it hate filled rants .... we're fucking weird mate..... City - people were glad when we stopped the red cunts winning the prem.... then as we got more and more trophies and with them the money... now everyone hates us....

"We hate it when our friends become successful. And of they're Northern it makes it even worse."

[john@staustell]

Club statement still defiant. If there is irrefutable evidence might be time to show it rather than talk about it.

We are very good at statements. Time for action

Understand the anger.
I am sure the Club is doing and will take all the strongest actions available and suitable.
Time frames and conditions of such proceedings can result frustrating for us fans ( me included) but I keep seeing carefully redacted actions even in those statements. Imho, it's all part of a carefully constructed action, constantly advised by the lawyers, in order to drop the bombshell at the suitable moment (be it the Arbitration stage or the High Court).
It will take time, probably long, and lot of patience from us fans.
I trust the Club and remain very confident on the final outcome.
Up the Blues and "sursum corda", mates.

They could drop the bombshell now and save a lot of bother?

[bigblue]

It's gonna take one hell of an appeal to go from a 900 million fraud to not guilty

The hopeful side of me thinks the PL has massively fucked up by framing it as a 900m fraud. That is an unbelievably high number, which just demonstrates how malicious their process has been. Thats approaching the level of FTX/Madoff level fraud, and it would be absurd to have this accusation with no accompanying statements from government offices.

[Hazy2]

It's gonna take one hell of an appeal to go from a 900 million fraud to not guilty

The figures don't make great reading. The beeb are loving this.
Well, we now know what the PL have on the table, what have we got in our 'irrefutable evidence' drawer. I hope it is on camera and suitable to be shown in a court of law. Loving the 'sham' contracts - that could prove to be embarassing for one side or the other. You would like to think we are a tad smarter than that but that's a fucking big statementfor the PL to make without backing it up.

Well effective of today we know what we are appealing
a position I think we knew was coming! Time to get swinging city!! The KC looks to have a damage limitation job.
Where does this leave our Chairman He’s a big boy on the global stage???

[Wooders]

900 million is a huge number for to have taken 3 years to decide it was fraudulent, it would have stood out like a sore thumb surely?
This is all rather strange.

Anyway if this sticks we are absolutely fucked.

[edge275]

I can't explain why, but I have a feeling Khaldoon and co. have laid a trap in which the PL have walked right into.

[Wooders]

I can't explain why, but I have a feeling Khaldoon and co. have laid a trap in which the PL have walked right into.

Let’s hope so, but life ain’t breaking bad unfortunately

[PeterParker]

Either way, this will go on for years.
And in those years we will hear non stop about the 900 mil fraud and we are cheaters.

I believe in the club, I really do, but I really think they are playing the better person in a whorehouse. And ultimately, us, the fans, will suffer in these years. Because there will be abuse from cunts who listen to Aghbonlahor and other twats. There will be bitter digs all around the world and these years will be quite a challenge.