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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My United supporting friend sent me this. Actually quite amusing. Apologies if already posted
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They’ll be helped at every turn for the rest of season to get that fifth spot without doubt
 
Two months ago Sam Lee put an extremely confident piece on UEFA having decided not to ban us. That despicable Tariq Panja went absolute silent ever since he got leaked info around May. All this pointed towards UEFA dropping their charges. Suddenly they have done a 180.

My speculation is that they knew their decision wouldn’t stand in a court or even at CAS but at the last second decided that they would get too much outrage if they were to drop the charges. Hence they can still say they decided to ban us after CAS overturns their verdict.
 
I think we’ve paid far too much heed to “what the law says” both in our deliberations as to how this could have happened and where it will all now end up. I’m fearful for City if we’re preparing a legal case based solely on “fairness” and/or “precedent”, cos our opponents will be constrained by none of those things. As we’ve seen repeatedly in the USA in the last 3 years, the law is whatever those in charge want it to be, and as long as Trump has a majority opinion on his side, he can put whatever perverse interpretation on that law he wants, and get away with it.

I think we’ve been far too naive on here in assuming that because Annex 4 means ‘X’ or Clause 2 means ‘Y’, we would be exonerated. UEFA were always going to ban us for at least 2 years (I think I actually predicted 3), because their overarching goal is the complete destruction of our club. Not a pebble in the shoe that might slow us down for a bit, but a complete knee capping so that we can never threaten the cartel again, and sufficient shit thrown by their media stooges that we will be tainted for years to come. No-one, but no-one, other than City fans themselves, believes in our innocence. Neutral supporters, by and large, think we’re cheats. They’ve been fed the narrative by the media unchallenged for a decade, and just like those gormless saps on Brexit night, who couldn’t iterate a single actual benefit to EU withdrawal beyond generic waffle about “taking back control”, despite voting for it and waving their mini Union Jacks for the cameras with drool dripping from their chins, so it is with football fans. Unless something actually impacts their club, in the manner that FFP has impacted us, very few will have the gumption to look beyond the headlines. To a degree we are reaping what we sewed, having let cnuts like Stone, Jackson, Harris & Co take the piss unrebuked for years, but either way, by the time CAS looks at our case the lynch mob will be at fever pitch and we will have been cast in the role of Goering at Nuremberg.

This case will likely be the biggest and most high profile a 3 man CAS panel has ever presided over. One judge is appointed by us (and will presumably be expected to find in our favour), as the second will be appointed by, and expected to vote for, UEFA. The pressure on that third judge then will be immense, and UEFA have been very canny in affording the body a cop out option of reducing the ban rather than overturning it, safe in the knowledge that a one year ban will nobble us every bit as effectively as a 2 year one. Not saying we’re gonna lose, but if I was a betting man my money would be going on that 1 year reduction, forcing us into further legal challenges, which the media will portray as windmilling by a desperate bully. We might win of course, but just don’t assume that because we’ve got evidence that points to our innocence and our owners are powerful, that we’re home and hosed
I dont get why ppl are saying the judge we pick will side with us etc. It is not a free choice. CAS has a permanent panel and we get to nominate one from the list. So they are likely to be impartial.
 
I dont get why ppl are saying the judge we pick will side with us etc. It is not a free choice. CAS has a permanent panel and we get to nominate one from the list. So they are likely to be impartial.

I'm certain they will be impartial. I can't remember CAS ever being accused of not being so.
 
The players don’t look particularly worried:


Neither would I on their money and lifestyles.

On a serious not i think the club has made it very clear that we feel we have this so no reason for them to be worried just yet.
 
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