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

What do you think will be the outcome of the CAS hearing?

  • Two-year ban upheld

    Votes: 197 13.1%

  • Ban reduced to one year

    Votes: 422 28.2%

  • Ban overturned and City exonerated

    Votes: 815 54.4%

  • Other

    Votes: 65 4.3%
  • Total voters
    1,499
Status
Not open for further replies.
If Carlsberg did breach of contract on NDA s we would bankrupt UEFA to a point where they didn't have a pot to piss in. In reality of course we will have to wait and see.
 
Its interesting noting the final paragraph of the Telegraph piece:

"Senior Uefa officials – who previously launched sanctions against City in 2014 – are particularly enraged by leaked files from 2015, which claim almost £60 million was paid directly into the club by their billionaire Arab owners but declared as sponsorship."

The allegation UEFA officials were "enraged" is also interesting, based on what information exactly, pure fabrication imo.
Its quite clearly aimed at stating the leak as a fact whilst hiding behind "leaked files"and "claimed". I would suggest some of these journalists are treading a very fine line and if any of our posters think we would have collaborated in the production of this nonsense then I'd be disappointed. In addition the whole statement is only a partial truth with an insinuation based on the good old emails that nobody apart from Der Spiegel has seen (maybe UEFA officials now).

As already stated though it does appear to be pointing the finger at Parry saying how the fuck can you be impartial. Which is a good thing. I'd like to see this narrative repeated over and over and this fucker may well have to publicly step away from the decision of the adjudicatory chamber - not that I think for a minute their decision will be any different.

I think its quite clear that the tone of our press release was one of great displeasure other than merely factual legal speak. It has quite clearly ramped up a notch although I accept not quite "coming out swinging". It may represent an escalating sequence but I suspect is quite clearly a warning that our legal teams are keeping a very beady eye on press speculation and what is being reported as fact. Journalists seeking to shit stir further should indeed be very wary.
 
Neville Kneville said:
They have more than once mentioned people 'deliberately' seeking to undermine the club. That's as strong as it gets.

Now they are suggesting people in UEFA could be involved. That's even stronger.

The media have been so keen to jump on City, they seem to have missed that, until now, when perhaps they are waking up.
Click to expand...

If you're waiting for the Clubs "Raheem Sterling" moment mate, I think you might be waiting for quite some time..
 
northwichblue said:
Is there going to be a decision on Thursday?
Click to expand...

It should be clear by now that the timing of release of these stories has been carefully planned. Therefore I fully expect that the "decision" will be coming to a news agency sometime between Friday afternoon and First thing Saturday morning.
 
Decision on Thursday, apparently?

Just before the FA Cup Final.

Another great Day to bury bad news.
 
If the "decision" is coming out on Thursday, it seems like City are fully aware what the result is and we are going on a mini last minute attack with the Parry stuff.

It's refreshing to see the club come out and be a bit more bullish. I just wish we'd done this a few years ago before we'd got to this point, which is now seemingly too little, too late.

I've been pretty outspoken with my views that the club's "slowly slowly catchy monkey" strategy with the media has been fundamentally flawed and doomed to fail from the beginning.

Many on here thought it was the right approach at the time. I wonder how many still think that now?
 
MillionMilesAway said:
I think going in swinging is the wrong strategy anyway.

The aim is surely to get on the right side of the people who run UEFA, and trying to bully them will be counter-productive to that end. UEFA pretty much had to investigate this, and are doing. As yet, there's no outcome and therefore no need to be heavy-handed.

If the club can convince UEFA that they are cooperating and on UEFA's side in UEFA vs 'G14', the long term benefit may be worth the current pain.
Click to expand...

I see the sense in this, but at what stage do they address, what seems to me to be the chief short-term aim of whoever is perpetrating this drip feed negative press narrative. And that is to discredit and undermine any achievement made by the club. Current timing would suggest this is an assault to hopefully put enough doubt in players minds about coming here. We've already won the league. This current campaign is discrediting that achievement and also trying to disrupt our transfer activity.

The team are producing on the playing field despite the quite obvious, to some, obstacles that they face each year.
The bit that really gets me about modern football is that it is becoming more and more clear, to us (City), that the real battles are political and Big Business.
It's all about protectionism. Year after year of this I become more and more disillusioned by the sport. But this in itself is a win for those that would like us to disappear.

This is why, while I agree with you on the right approach, from a business sense, being taken. I would just like a clear victory in the propaganda war every once in a while.
The average supporter of other clubs, regardless of how much they may hate Liverpool or United, still only see one side of the mud slinging against us and assume that it's true.

I'd love to see the underhanded dealings of the G14 exposed for what they are. If the Sheik doesn't require it, I think the fans do.
 
Is anyone concerned that our target signings won't come if we get banned?
Why is their a constant agenda against us?
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Unread Posts

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top