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

[Gundogan's Moustache]

They’re sly little wankers here, we’ll apeal and get it down to one year. The one year punishment that if found guilty should be been in the first place

 

[urban genie]

On a plus it will save me more than £100+ next two years and will now avoid the massive queues at passport control when we can no longer breeze through the EU line ;-)

 

[Blue Smarties]

He should be the object of our attention

Who, charlesflint@blackstonechambers.com?

 

[Bandofblues]

Well, so far, we've lost every single battle so I think it would be prudent to expect to lose the next one and start planning our comeback, however long that takes.

When are the York away tickets on sale?

 

[Marvin]

This **** has to be banned from out ground now. He is a complete twat.

Couldn't hide his glee. They'll all be celebrating tonight.

Looks like UEFA hawks have been fighting a reaguard action and that's why the ruling was delayed for months?

 

[lonestay]

European football changes as from today , something had to happen as a catalyst and it has today .

 

[Gordyola]

Hold on. The club injected 2.7bn euro revenue over 7 years? So they are saying that on average we injected €400m every season?
How the fuck does that add up when we were reporting between £300m - £500m revenue each year which includes all the tv and prize money that we received?

Something very, very wrong here.

Fake news will get picked up and passed on without any thought

 

[Silvatoure21]

The implications are huge. Pep fucks off, 250 million in revenue lost, players we lose or can’t attract, the reputation as damage this will do and the tarring of our achievements over the last decade. Fans of other clubs have no clue what it’s even for and they don’t care, the world just now know city are cheats.

Give me a break, the whole world couldn’t care less. Uefa is a totally corrupt org and I’m more worried about recruitment than I am our reputation.

 

[Roachy]

The club have insisted all along that the allegations are utter bollocks and given how strongly they’ve protested their innocence, I’m inclined to believe them. However, playing devil’s advocate, if it turns out City were bullshitting all along then I’ll be seriously pissed off because they’ll have not only deceived UEFA, but also deceived us fans too.

That's the crux of it for a lot of us fans. The only problem I see if is the evidence they have used is open to interpretation and then it could get messy. If, as the club states, we have done nothing wrong then that gives me confidence. This is one of 2 things from UEFA I think, either we are cast iron guilty or they have gone for broke regardless of the ramifications to them.

 

[Cityinmyheart]

I am a lawyer and see these kind of conflicts everyday. I predict this decision to be overturned based on mala fide and incorrect reading of facts. Have hope fellow blues, Man City owners are one of the richest people on this planet and can hire the best team of lawyers to get their legal rights protected.
We will be playing Champions League next season. Stay together and support the club.

 

[blue is best]

The home leg should be played out before an empty stadium.

Anyone going wants their heads testing.

Get what you’re saying re the comp, but we can’t abandon the team now, they are innocent in this so need our support more than ever.

 

[give it to gordon]

Why go to CAS cant we just go to the biggest and highest court there is ?

 

[stan bowles]

Cas will defer this punishment until after any hearing, I'm pretty certain of that.

That could be months away (6-9 months ?) No one of real quality is going to want to sign for us until the appeal is finished so forget anyone good coming in summer.

 

[Mottram40]

Sky kicking us while down here. They have England ruby stars chuffed to pieces saying they are life long spurs fans.
Talking up hopes of Wolves, Sheff Utd and even Utd (said with enthusiasm)
I persoanlly see them giving us 2 years ban so they reduce to a 1 year ban giving them leverage to bargain when we hit them hard.
Think it wil be 1 year hope none

 

[The keeper]

The club should set up a worldwide cup,south american,asian teams ect It would make up for lost revenue ?

 

[blueinsa]

We will not beat an organisation like UEFA, regardless of how much money or who our owner is.

Literally we have been cast aside here by the rest of football in Europe and no fucker is going to try and support us.

 

[Kokonut1307]

Does anyone know what will happen if it gets that far? I can only imagine that at the moment, only the CAS can stop them imposing the ban. If that was the case, we'd basically be out of the competition for at least a season but we could potentially sue UEFA for loss of earnings, damages, players lost or missed out on, potential sponsors and so on, to the tune of... Who knows how much?

Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland. Then probably European Court of Justice. Finally The Hague ICJ

 

[Cheesy]

The thing I'm struggling with most about all this is Jim White barely containing his glee.

Cnut.

 

[Marvin]

City will appeal. But will CAS throw it out?

The most important thing is that City fans get behind the club then it will rebound on them all.

 

[citizen_maine]

Its a financial hit that is designed to ensure that future FFP is impossible to meet as well might I add.

If we're not in their competition, we don't have to comply with their rules?