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
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blue b4 the moon said:
Ashamed of nothing as per the dip Bible.
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Yes but it's a bit more sinister for me. This article is the sort of thing Khaldoon meant when he said in May: “The football world is very small and word comes around very quickly so when someone somewhere in a leading position in any club says or briefs something – guess what? We know about it." When he made that comment and the earlier statement that there was a campaign against City I believe he knew what he was saying and his comments had been cleared by lawyers.
Tony Evans' story didn't happen by accident on the same day as the draw. Evans was briefed, probably indirectly, by someone from within EUFA who has links to one of our commercial rivals. Contrary to what some people say most reporters do not "just make things up." A lot of these stories are appearing in articles written by journalists with strong contacts at Liverpool FC.
 
Gordyola said:
Rui Pinto expedited from Hungary on a European arrest warrant is now in Portugal on pre-trial investigation, last six months and is due to expire soon although in a complex case can be extended

http://josimarfootball.com/the-portuguese-case-against-rui-pinto/
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Thanks. I have seen this article but thought the case had recently been extended. There has been a lot published in the US and Portugal. I haven't got the time to hunt for links today. I don't believe UEFA can do anything until this legal case is resolved because all their evidence seems to based on the Pinto leaks to Der Spiegel. If they take action against City based on highly selective leaks and more evidence comes out or Pinto goes down it could cost UEFA hundreds of millions in damages and costs. Actually losing such a civil action could threaten their entire existence. Our commercial rivals are putting political pressure on UEFA to act (hence todays article from the Independent) but UEFA is in an impossible situation.
 
petrusha said:
Hadn't heard about the fountain stuff, but the fan rep is a different former Times journalist, Tony Barrett. Evans is pushing this UEFA angle in a big way and I'd wager that his source comes from within Liverpool FC. He's also writing about the possibility of a European super league being formed under the auspices of UEFA and has more than once banged on about us potentially being excluded if we have a long ban as a result of FFP breaches. I get the feeling that he wants it to happen.
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Ahh, apologies for getting the wrong bloke, cheers for putting me right (and @wolfie1988)
 
I’d love a City to get past security, and to wait until the first balls were being drawn out, then to rush the stage, screaming “UEFA, Cartel, Royalty, bent bastards!” “ F*** off UEFA, Gill, Tebas, Hoeness, Rummenigge, Bayern, United, Liverpool, Real, Barcelona!” Then start knocking the draw pots over, and throwing the balls all over the place, before security grabs them. :-)
 
It's funny how many people that moralise about the rules don't have a problem if the rules are followed when punishing us, they just want it done.
 
FootballSense said:
This is a disgraceful piece but not surprising from the on-line media outlet.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...nts-group-stage-uefa-ban-latest-a9083116.html

According to Tony Evans (who?) of the so called The Independent " Uefa are certain of City’s guilt ". Like young Miguel, he seems to want to make a name for his owners and their distortions.
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That will be Liverpool fan Tony Evans. The very man who creamed his pants when he exclusively revealed the Chinese Sovereign Wealth Fund were about to Liverpool?

That went well, didn't it?

This is basically him nosing his resentment and bitterness on the fact the draw is today, and the fact we could very well win it.

Lazy journalism, betraying fear. He's getting his digs in early to try and deligitimise if we win it.
 
No sign of a date yet for the hearing on the cas website, which shows upcoming hearing's until early October.

Makes me wonder what's happening behind the scene's.
 
Well, who’d have thought it?
In a week when a club has been wound-up, and another has narrowly escaped the same fate, due to unchecked,horrific mis-management,
On a day when a club in Scotland has to close sections of its ground because of appalling sectarianism and racist chanting,
On a day when certain clubs from Eastern Europe with shocking histories of homophobic and racist chants and attacks will be taking part in the CL draw,
On a day when a certain club from ... well, not too far away, has their shirts emblazoned with the name of a bank which has convictions for enabling and facilitating the tyrannical behaviour of certain nations’ governments, and other assorted criminal and terrorist activities, we have yet another ludicrous, unsubstantiated and lie-ridden attack on an organisation which has done nothing but good for the game, both here and abroad.
It does look a tad like a coordinated campaign, doesn’t it?
 
FootballSense said:
This is a disgraceful piece but not surprising from the on-line media outlet.

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport...nts-group-stage-uefa-ban-latest-a9083116.html

According to Tony Evans (who?) of the so called The Independent " Uefa are certain of City’s guilt ". Like young Miguel, he seems to want to make a name for his owners and their distortions.
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This guy is a prick... I have read his shite before and did a little digging to see what sort of reporter he is and out of ALL his stories on either LFC/City his agenda is clear.

He's is a poisonous twat, only 1 postive article about City in the last six months and that was about how we still beat WH even though we were not playing well.

City
Why are City in the Champions League draw when Uefa ban looms?
Man City sleepwalk through opening weekend as gulf in class threatens
How Man City could be left in ruins by Uefa charge
Man City furious as Uefa move step closer to issuing Champions League ban
Man City set for D-Day as Uefa meet to decide their fate
Man City boss Pep Guardiola knows he must win Champions League... other trophies are trinkets

LFC
How Liverpool copied Arsenal and then left them behind
How Coutinho’s departure became Liverpool’s catalyst for success
The one decision Klopp must get right to transform Liverpool
How Dejan Lovren’s Liverpool departure symbolises
What it means to be a Liverpool fan – a letter to Jacob Rees-Mogg
Hillsborough was not a football problem, it was far greater than that
Divock Origi the unlikely hero as Liverpool scoop sixth European title
Liverpool fc's epic Barcelona win rivals best of Anfield’s glory nights


These guys can defend their articles being negative about City but they cannot defend how at the same time the positive reports about LFC have ramped up.... It's like someone is paying them
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Thanks. I have seen this article but thought the case had recently been extended. There has been a lot published in the US and Portugal. I haven't got the time to hunt for links today. I don't believe UEFA can do anything until this legal case is resolved because all their evidence seems to based on the Pinto leaks to Der Spiegel. If they take action against City based on highly selective leaks and more evidence comes out or Pinto goes down it could cost UEFA hundreds of millions in damages and costs. Actually losing such a civil action could threaten their entire existence. Our commercial rivals are putting political pressure on UEFA to act (hence todays article from the Independent) but UEFA is in an impossible situation.
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I have a feeling that pressure was applied to Hungary and Portugal to get this guy locked up A phone call from our chairman to PMs of the countries might have done the trick
 
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