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

[GaudinoMotors]

CAS judges are from all over the World, many are from the Middle East.

Hopefully 3 from Abu Dhabi then.

 

[citymad]

We signed Silva, Yaya, Sergio, Barry, Kolorov long before champions league, it's not the be all and end all.

Would’ve sounded more impressive if you just left it at first three. :)

 

[Blue Maverick]

Fuck UEFA, fuck the Champions League, LOVE CITY.
Wouldn’t it be great if PEP came out tomorrow and said he’s signed a 5 year deal to shut the ****s up.

 

[Gordyola]

Would hope any uefa officials turning up at the Madrid game get treated with the disdain they deserve.

Witnessed first hand how these pricks expect to be treated when they turn up at a club. For them the football is something in the background while they are being entertained. Always wound me how well they were treated while treating us like shit.

Don't care about the champions league and would love the club to go for uefa in the courts and remind the world that mancunians have a history of not keeping quite when we are wronged

They will be troughing the free food and booze as normal not interested in the football just a set of free loaders

 

[marco]

In some ways I'm relieved. Now we know for certain what UEFA are going to do we can go about moving on, something that was well nigh impossible before. We either win the appeal or commence the rebuilding job. Whatever, the future starts here.

I think your wrong with this one,we rebuild serve the ban and they fuck us over again and again,no matter how good we are UEFA under any circumstances do not want us winning this, we'l get banned but the club must drag them through the civil courts for losses

 

[kaz7]

Im not being funny or having a dig. But I thought it was common knowledge that your owner put his money into the club via Etihad.

My point is, and the point I hope you actually go all out on is that your owner has the means to pump whatever he wants to into the club, he should be allowed to do that. Your club is not at risk of going under?So its not to protect your club, so whats the problem? Hopefully the FFP rule is scrapped.

How did PSG manage to not get any sort of punishment?

You are believing the media too much and PSG have contscts at EUFA,friendly ones,the prem teams sre leafing this,the ones with yank owners,they have been trying for 10yrs

 

[Indaparkside]

Has anyone got the map to York?

just picked up a straggler on the m62, says there’s still a few behind him with original ticket stubs

 

[HarrytheBlue]

What’s the name of the guy who hacked our records and who is facing prison for extortion?

 

[Petethemancinleeds]

As a Leeds fan just said , one club kicked out of Europe and the rest celebrate including the only club that got everyone banned from Europe. It's all corrupt and going to get messy.

 

[domalino]

The email talked about “his highness” IIRC this was assumed to be Mansour again IIRC only the head of the UAE is referenced in this way

Exactly. It can be speculated but if it came from Etihad, there can not be an objective claim that it is overinflated. Etihad decides what sponsorship they are paying, irrespective of the amount.

This is from the Conn article.

One of the emails, from City’s then chief financial officer, Jorge Chumillas, headed “Cashflow”, stated that Mansour’s own company vehicle, the Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG), would be paying £57m as a “contribution to 13/14 sponsorship fee”, while only £8m was Etihad’s “direct contribution”. Then Chumillas sent invoices for Etihad, internally to the City executives Ferran Soriano and Simon Pearce, stating that for 2015-16, the Etihad sponsorship was £67.5m, of which “£8m should be funded directly by Etihad and £59.5 [sic] by ADUG”.
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The issue is whether ADUG paid City and we called it sponsorship, or Etihad paid City after ADUG paid them. If it's the latter then there cannot be a case to answer, as UEFA have absolutely no legislation where a sponsor gets their money.

If ADUG paid us, even on behalf of Etihad, things might get messy.

 

[Nascent Blues]

Does anyone know if this will impact on the PUMA deal?

 

[WestGorton]

We are the only club to drink Wembley dry. Twice. We are the only c6to be banned from Millwall for being too dangerous and violent. CMON City

 

[BringBackSwales]

This was dealt with in Khaldoon's end of (2019) season video. They have been expecting it and are ready to deal with it.
It has probably been frustrating for them to have to wait for the UEFA process to finish before they can get started.

We probably have evidence that we are not willing to disclose/share with UEFA (personal emails etc), that would blow their case out of the water.
CAS will have ALL of our defence evidence.
I just hope City are keeping tabs on any libelous headlines coming out of the press. This compensation money could fund us for years!

IF it is proven we did cook the books, then fair enough we deserve what we get. I will still support City exactly the same way.
However, if proven UEFA had no grounds for a case, then they should have the book thrown at them for damaging our brand.

To be honest we were always going to say we expected it and will deal with it, but whether we are successful or not is a very different matter indeed

 

[Grassland Blue]

Mad to think that I wasn’t expecting this. I actually can’t believe they’ve banned us. Their intention is to destroy us a football club.

Fuck going to the Madrid game.

No. Turn up and walk out at half time.
Bastards.

 

[Marvin]

I'm wondering whether CAS has given UEFA the heads up saying the leaking of information is not the right thing to do and you will get a slap on the wrist
Giving them the green light to do what they have done tonight

I think it's possible that UEFA have done a few somersaults but do you trust them?

They moved the goalposts deliberately at the last moment so that City were forced into this subterfuge which Der Spiegel detailed but Der Spiegel never gave their readers the context. They did UEFA's dirty work for them. UEFA sanctioned us once, now they do it again. And as City point out the process has obviously been flawed and bent but who defends City no one. We are to most of the world Dirty Money. The job has been well and truly done on us so that I don' think we can rely on justice from any quarter.

Life is not a meritocracy. Society has always been divided between haves and have nots, and football is the same.

 

[red 2 hats]

Not sure about your user name but bang on the money all the same

Close your eyes and keep repeating my username, think you will then understand :)

 

[Petethemancinleeds]

Has anyone got the map to York?

Is Lincoln all ticket or pay at the gate

 

[Centurions]

How can a sponsorship be overinflated? Their argument is based that due to Abu Dhabi ties to both Etihad and City it must mean that the deal was inflated so City adheres the FFP. It is probably true but how can this be objectively proven? Simple answer is it can not be.

Is it bollocks true, and we have UEFA to thank for confirming that. They agreed when they moved the goalposts that the Etihad deal was at market value and didn't dispute it. They asked us not to raise a couple of lower tier sponsorships at the time for 2 years (Aarabar was one I think).

 

[Indaparkside]

What’s the name of the guy who hacked our records

saun ryder

 

[Academica]

People on here saying it was wrong to boo the chumps league ditty.