UEFA FFP investigation - CAS decision to be announced Monday, 13th July 9.30am BST

[paulchapo]

Only until you fight back.

Exactly I think everyone knew it would come to this. Hopefully we have been training hard for the fight behind the scenes.

 

[George Hannah]

I’ve got a story along the same lines: the other day, a guy down my local said similar things about our owners; I told him to go fuck his mum’s cünt.

One of the finest posts ever. Bravo sir!

The deadly duo - cometh the hour.....

 

[cleavers]

If you know as well as I do then, unless to work for the club or sent the emails, you know fuck all. I believe agents are overpaid greedy bastards who are a football parasites, I believe parents are given inducements for there sons to go to particular clubs but I've no personal evidence that this is the case. So like you I don't know. But unlike you I'm willing to wait until UEFA actually prove anything.

This is nothing to do with transfers or agents or parents getting inducements.

 

[M18CTID]

Not sure whether it’s already been mentioned but I’m worried we might get a transfer ban over this.

 

[Roachy]

I would like to think the club's got this covered after putting out that statement, so not too worried on that front. However, being that it's Uefa that we're dealing with you never know. Hopefully this is just due process with no case to answer.

 

[Marvin]

Sounds like we are going to co-operate with the investigation given that we say that it's an opportunity to bring to an end the false accusations.

UEFA have been down this route with PSG and I think that case is still with the CAS.

 

[domalino]

If I was advising City I wouldn’t have mentioned the emails at all.

If we state the emails are out of context then we may have to show the context in which they were sent.

I think the hackers/newpapers have all the context needed and have sent it all to UEFA already. They took terabytes of data, so it's not like they've just seen a few smoking gun out of context emails, they seem to have got everything for years.

I would think City and their lawyers are working on the assumption that UEFA has every email sent & received over the period of the hack.

 

[Asian Blue]

Soooo sad, and predictable!!
For whoever says we are overacting to negative reporting .,,,,
Wankfest last night, followed by a stored story which is such a load of bollocks.
Whatever we do from now to eternity does not fit in with the elite ... but wake up Mr Media .... we are now the elite

 

[balotellishaircut]

Fucking hell, what a coincidence that this comes out the day after the scum win the champions league. They did win the champions league last night didn’t they?

Yeah and some on here last night were saying " we're glad the scum won then they play 2 extra games same as us shit, injuries and I hope we draw them blah blah blah shit, ycmiu.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Not sure whether it’s already been mentioned but I’m worried we might get a transfer ban over this.

And a points deduction.

 

[SVP]

I just want if sorted tbh. If there gonna fine or ban us from the champs league or even make us miss a transfer window just get it done. There is no way we are walking away from this with a not guilty because we are too big to get away. So I say bring it on and fuck em

Transfer ban?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????/

 

[Skip Donoghue]

If someone offered us that now to get rid of the whole thing I'd take it. The cartel won't stop until we've been demoted and disqualified from European competition indefinitely.

These ****s won’t stop at that though...as someone said in the thread earlier UEFA are bullies, being backed by their “History” clubs, we took a deal once and they’ve come after us again and if we take a deal again, when the “History” clubs kick up a stink again UEFA will do their bidding once more,
god help us if we ever take a Messi type player from a Barca etc or even have the audacity to win the Corruption League fuck me imagine the shit storm from that
I hope we take these ****s on, head on and if it doesn’t go our way, so fucking what, I’ll still love OUR club as will the vast majority of City fans....Fuck UEFA....Fuck the “History” clubs and Fuck the rag/dipper infested media...we are City we fight to the end

 

[oakiecokie]

See what Khaldon is made of now

I don`t understand what you mean.Please expand.

 

[aguero93:20]

How do we fall in line? We aren't failing ffp anymore are we?

Preferably we'd drop to finishing sixth/seventh on average and not winning anything.

 

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

I think the majority view that the investigation marks a new low in relations between City and UEFA may just be way off target. We are all assuming that UEFA are out to do us to appease a baying cartel while we are arming ourselves with writs and the like to give UEFA a working over in the courts.

It might be as well to remember that we have sailed through the FFP assessments ever since 2014, that the first DS revelations appeared last November and that UEFA was as much a target as City because they had conspired with us to circumvent the regulations they had introduced. Infantino refuted the claims while City argued that the claims were based on emails which were obtained illegally and would not comment. There was no conflict between City and UEFA then, but the usual hacks reported that UEFA would take the strongest action if the claims could be proven. This could be the usual nonsense our press prints.

Since then it has emerged that these emails have been produced - maybe even fabricated - by a Potuguese who specialises not only in hacking emails, but also in using them to extort money through blackmail. This charming gentleman had fled to Hungary but only this week found that the Hungarians had agreed to extradite him to Portugal to face trial for these activities. He seems a most unlikely witness to provoke a virtual civil war in club football. In a post on Monday I raised the question of whether he had been foolish enough to try and blackmail City! I wonder now if he has been daft enough to try and blackmail certain UEFA officials as well!

So, UEFA announce an investigation of "reported" FFP breaches, City welcome the process but suggest it will amount to no more than another glance at our accounts, which have already been shown to be "full and complete" and the investigation shows that FFP has succeeded in transforming City into a model of financial propriety. The only wrongdoing is that of a criminal hacker and blackmailer who goes to jail for a very long time and DS has to settle out of court for extensive damage to the reputation of City - and UEFA!

That should deter future troublemakers from dipping into the (murky?!) world football (and UEFA) finance.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Really? How so?

You don't think we have been successful,or that our club is seen as one of the finest and best run on the planet?

 

[Withnail]

Great response from the club, interesting to see how this will develop. City will fight this all the way.

 

[Hamann Pineapple]

To save face UEFA will give us a 12 month transfer ban, we will appeal and thus justify spending £400m in the summer before appeal is denied and ban takes effect for 2 windows. Voila.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

The deadly duo - cometh the hour.....

Nice to see you posting again, George.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Hmm......

I wouldn't bother too much with Wolfie Len. It's pretty clear he's on the wrong forum.