6 + 2 Point Deductions

[Lanolin]

Yeah, I'm with you. I get the premise of their claim, and see why a KC may say "go ahead", but I dont think a decent defence loses this one if given the time and supplies. The only question for me is, can TFG be arsed with it. It may not even be them paying any fine, it could be covered by money in Escrow from the sale. The settlement effectively covered by just not paying Moshiri as much. If that was me I'd juts pay them off, forget about it all and get on with my life. Let others fight it out in future. If we settle, then no precedence is set, the date has passed for anybody else to raise a claim, this isnt a test case in a group litigation. Let others take a chance suing other clubs, let them take the arguments and costs. Lets just draw a line under it for an undisclosed amount.

Yeah, totally agree.

 

[Seathestars]

NEA what we pay Burnley, we'll get it back off City and Chelsea when we sue them.

Masters and Co have completely destroyed football

 

[Terrarian]

NEA what we pay Burnley, we'll get it back off City and Chelsea when we sue them.

Masters and Co have completely destroyed football

Yep a can of worms will be opened and clubs will start trying to sue each other over everything that they consider a hinderance to getting points/avoiding relegation.

 

[Professor Toffee]

Liverpool with sue teams for not conceding a pen in the 10 mins of “added time”

 

[f.t.r.s]

So we can sue teams for signing players who score points earning goals then? Basically the same point

 

[JimmyJeffers]

Morning Lawyers!

 

[MikeH72]

Morning Lawyers!

The beautiful game

AND ITS LIIIIIIVE

 

[Neiler]

NEA what we pay Burnley, we'll get it back off City and Chelsea when we sue them.

Masters and Co have completely destroyed football

Might not be about cash flow, might hit our PSR bottom line - we might need to come up with £50 mill from somewhere

That said I think Burnley are really misadviced taking this on.

 

[Marius57]

Yeah, I'm with you. I get the premise of their claim, and see why a KC may say "go ahead", but I dont think a decent defence loses this one if given the time and supplies. The only question for me is, can TFG be arsed with it. It may not even be them paying any fine, it could be covered by money in Escrow from the sale. The settlement effectively covered by just not paying Moshiri as much. If that was me I'd juts pay them off, forget about it all and get on with my life. Let others fight it out in future. If we settle, then no precedence is set, the date has passed for anybody else to raise a claim, this isnt a test case in a group litigation. Let others take a chance suing other clubs, let them take the arguments and costs. Lets just draw a line under it for an undisclosed amount.

I would say they can be arsed with it based on that we have been working with a lawyer on it for the last 6 months.

 

[Moomin]

Might not be about cash flow, might hit our PSR bottom line - we might need to come up with £50 mill from somewhere

That said I think Burnley are really misadviced taking this on.

Will be sorted out of court.

 

[John from Bootle]

Might not be about cash flow, might hit our PSR bottom line - we might need to come up with £50 mill from somewhere

That said I think Burnley are really misadviced taking this on.

Didn't the league rule that City's legal costs would not impact their PSR position?

Whilst we're at it, can we sue Chelsea for the Martinez 72 point season? Oh, and can we sue the league for giving us illegal advice on the Iceland thing? 'Your loss' they said. Should have just terminated his contract. Yeah, and he'd have sued us, we'd have had to pay him in full, as well as our own and his legal expenses. Ultimately ending up even worse off. They said it was our fault for not sacking him though and paying him what we were legally obliged to. No mitigation at all they said.

 

[GN!]

Will be sorted out of court.

No it won’t it will be droppped , if not burnley will need to pay for our lawyers

 

[Moomin]

No it won’t it will be droppped , if not burnley will need to pay for our lawyers

It will be agreed out of court and we will never know what was arranged.

 

[John from Bootle]

It will be agreed out of court and we will never know what was arranged.

Shame. I was looking forward to seeing a silk volley an afferdavit straight in to the face of a burnley lawyer from 35 yards. It's what I go the game for.

 

[Iana]

Didn't the league rule that City's legal costs would not impact their PSR position?

Whilst we're at it, can we sue Chelsea for the Martinez 72 point season? Oh, and can we sue the league for giving us illegal advice on the Iceland thing? 'Your loss' they said. Should have just terminated his contract. Yeah, and he'd have sued us, we'd have had to pay him in full, as well as our own and his legal expenses. Ultimately ending up even worse off. They said it was our fault for not sacking him though and paying him what we were legally obliged to. No mitigation at all they said.

If Player X had been afforded the same treatment as Thomas Partey and remained a member of the playing staff we would have been nowhere relegation or we would have sold him in the last year of the contract thus mitigating his circa £10m cost on the books.