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

[Marvin]

It's fucking unreal what he's come out with in the past few days. I don't expect him to blow smoke up our arses but someone who I thought knew his onions has utterly disgraced himself. That article about Brexit was bad enough, but to then use PB's research, pass it off as his own, and still imply we're in the wrong is utterly laughable, plus it gives ammo to all the lemmings reading it who don't have a clue what it all means. The headline and article should've carried the narrative that the source of funds shows that it wasn't disguised owner funding after all.

Conn took a piece of evidence that strongly undermines the Football Leaks sourced argument (City's Etihad sponsorship was financed by Sheikh Mansour) and twists it to argue that Etihad Airlines are underwritten by the state and Man City are a state-owned club and hence its self-sponsorship. it's a bit desperate when the journalist knows that this is central to Football Leaks but can not bring himself to say it. The same paper at the same time accuses City fans of hostility (Liew)!

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

So, on this EUFA executive council are: David Gill, non-exec director of Manchester United, who is one of the Vice Presidents. Members include: Andrea Agnelli, chairman of Juventus and board member of Fiat. Nasser Al-Khelaifi, PSG chairman and escaper of FFP regs (and rightly so), Davor Suker, ex Madrid and Arsenal player, Zbigniew Boniek, ex Juventus player.
It now turns out, that Yves Leterme, our chief prosecutor gets paid for sitting on the VW group sustainability which is the parent company of Audi, who have just signed a monster sponsorship deal with those minnows from Munich.

Now we may or may not have breached FFP rules (I am not privy to such information) but the due process stinks to high heaven and if it was a court of law most right minded people would be outraged.

 

[urban genie]

Conn took a piece of evidence that strongly undermines the Football Leaks sourced argument (City's Etihad sponsorship was financed by Sheikh Mansour) and twists it to argue that Etihad Airlines are underwritten by the state and Man City are a state-owned club and hence its self-sponsorship. it's a bit desperate when the journalist knows that this is central to Football Leaks but can not bring himself to say it. The same paper at the same time accuses City fans of hostility (Liew)!

Conn is so far down the rabbit hole that to come out and admit his main piece of evidence against us, the e-mail saying HH was a reference to shiekh mansour and not shiekh kalifa will make him look like a fool.

He has no turning back stratergy as he has staked his last 4-5 articles on this premise.

Now that the etihad funding is being clearly shown not to be from our shiekh he is twisting the narrative as otherwise he is shown to be a poorly reseached journalist.

It is both pathetic and moronic.

 

[Asa's left peg]

Liew is using one or two comments on a social media platform (sorry Ric - I know it's much more than that ! ) and applying that to all of us. Now where have I seen that before? But that's what you do if you want to inflame, and get clicks off course.

Martin Samuels doesn't need a banner, in fact it might be an embarrassment to him. He will put his head on the pillow knowing he has done his job based on facts and has not blown smoke up our crack. He has inferred we have broken rules, pretty sure on one occasion he said we had, which nobody has proven ....yet.
Anyway Jonathan, I'm sure you will pick up material in the coming pages - at least give the guys credit with a name check like paddy power do.

 

[manimanc]

Conn took a piece of evidence that strongly undermines the Football Leaks sourced argument (City's Etihad sponsorship was financed by Sheikh Mansour) and twists it to argue that Etihad Airlines are underwritten by the state and Man City are a state-owned club and hence its self-sponsorship. it's a bit desperate when the journalist knows that this is central to Football Leaks but can not bring himself to say it. The same paper at the same time accuses City fans of hostility (Liew)!

Liew is a Liverpool fan so no surprises he's talking shite and going over the top.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

It's fucking unreal what he's come out with in the past few days. I don't expect him to blow smoke up our arses but someone who I thought knew his onions has utterly disgraced himself. That article about Brexit was bad enough, but to then use PB's research, pass it off as his own, and still imply we're in the wrong is utterly laughable, plus it gives ammo to all the lemmings reading it who don't have a clue what it all means. The headline and article should've carried the narrative that the source of funds shows that it wasn't disguised owner funding after all.

Gratuitous use of the word ‘literally’ usually denotes a bit of a thicko.

Literally.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

That’s why I’m giving you the low to which he plummeted.

A new low from Liew.

 

[Cornish_Blue]

I don’t mind what Ratboy said against UEFA, I still don’t trust the prick. He’s a rag at heart and always will forever be.
He might be spouting, but he’s as bad as Spits at Kids Carragher. How that cünt has still got a job is the desperation of Sky for pundits. Cancelled mine, BBC license fee is next to go.
The media in this country is a Fcuking joke, but our PR/Media dept seem like they don’t give a toss and will just roll over and accept the blatant bile, while handing them Gold Standard hospitality.

 

[Shirley]

Conn took a piece of evidence that strongly undermines the Football Leaks sourced argument (City's Etihad sponsorship was financed by Sheikh Mansour) and twists it to argue that Etihad Airlines are underwritten by the state and Man City are a state-owned club and hence its self-sponsorship. it's a bit desperate when the journalist knows that this is central to Football Leaks but can not bring himself to say it. The same paper at the same time accuses City fans of hostility (Liew)!

You've been urging City fans to boycott the guardian and I have!

 

[stan bowles]

This is what is bizarre about Liew.




How many clubs have challenged UEFAs authority by appealing to CAS just like City? Milan, Chelsea, Lyon, Arsenal, Galatasaray. Real Madrid, Barcelona and Chelsea all challenger FIFAs authority.

None of them were heralded as bringing about the end of the sport for pursuing a legal course of action agreed on by both parties

You should call him out on Twitter and expose him for his blatant hypocrisy. I'm going to.

 

[christened at st marks]

 

[aguero93:20]

You should call him out on Twitter and expose him for his blatant hypocrisy. I'm going to.

He'll just block you, I'm speaking from experience.

 

[blueinsa]

Liew is a Liverpool fan so no surprises he's talking shite and going over the top.

Someone should remind him that when a clubs fans decide to riot resulting in the deaths of 39 fans its stops becoming a sport.

Or when a club decides to hack into another clubs scouting database.........

 

[sir baconface]

This an extract from that pathetic article. What a vile bigot

"
Trawl the City messageboards in the wake of Uefa’s decision to ban the club from the Champions League for two seasons, and it won’t take you long to stumble across the rhetoric of scorched earth: of traitors and revolutionaries, violence and purgation, shady cartels and subhuman scum. "

Jonathan Liew swallowed a thesaurus and spat out big, aggressive-sounding words at random. His article is a rhetorical pile of puke.

 

[BrianW]

I hope the Sheikh has a team scrutinising public statements - including those on Fan sites - for potential libel, and uses our very strict English libel law to his advantage. Could end up closing a few of the bastards down altogether.

 

[hello]

Our owner will not take anything but a win?

We are now all or nothing surely?

1. Being deceitful isn't always 'a worse offence than the offence itself': it's in most jurisdictions (according to sentencing guidelines) far less serious than the original offence itself and results in much fewer prosecutions. Even in the UK, if I turned up at the Guardian's offices and slapped David Conn's bald head but then denied it, the only prosecution I'd face is one for the (common) assault.

2. More importantly, nowhere in the 'UEFA Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Regulations' or 'the Procedural rules governing the UEFA Club Financial Control Body' does it say that:

• 'Breach of trust' is an offence
• 'Breach of trust' or a similar offence is more serious than any other offence

Once again, it looks like Conn's arrived at an opinion not just without facts but in the opposition of facts.

He really is a disgrace to journalism.

Was that an offer? do you have a gofundme thingy in the absence of legal aid to deal with the common assault defence ;-)

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Can people stop saying polite things about Gary Neville, there will be some self interest in this for him. He is not just trying to unify .
the people of Manchester.

The man is a rat (or should that read, the rat is a rat?).........

 

[Asa's left peg]

I wonder what Conn's end game/ideal scenario looks like? We loose and back down to the 3rd division and everything back to normal? SM pulls out and UAE becomes a bastion of human rights like the UK and USA? Those pesky Arabs go back to living in tents?

I've read he is a city fan. I'm not sure that's the case. He would at least put in some balance to his vitriolic scribblings. There again I'm not a pseudo political journalist.

 

[bellwhaft]

If CAS can't process the case by this summer, are we still banned next season or does it automatically get suspended?

 

[aguero93:20]

If CAS can't process the case by this summer, are we still banned next season or does it automatically get suspended?

Up to CAS. I'd imagine that they'd suspend the ban. If they're taking their time to process the case they're taking it very seriously so a suspension would be necessary.