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

[Allnightlong]

Doesn't it depend how the season officially ends? Liverpool are not champions yet...

will this affect seedings?....if the season is null and void then we are still champions.

 

[Tim of the Oak]

Does anyone actually want City to be an establishment team like Juve / KFC / Bayern / Utd. I couldnt live with it tbh.

I hope we blow FFP out of the water over the next couple of years, I dont want us to actually try join them before the drawbridge closes.

So fed up of these establishment teams with their media and governing body bias. It totally ruins football for football fans, it might be good as for promoting "the sport" but ffs same teams every year is shit

Not really, but our fans voted with their wallets when selling out Madrid at home within a few days and plenty not buying tickets for the scum at home in the Cup.

 

[HelloCity]

Don't shoot the messenger. Heard this morning that if our borders are closed they can't reopen till a vaccine is produced. Only heard as a rumour so I dont say it is true.
PS. A vaccine might be 12 months away.

Office or social media gossip from Big Gaz doesn’t really count.

 

[ancoats]

See Leeds with Chapman at CF.

it was the norm and the big striker was the key member of the team. when you look back at football back then you can understand why teams would just lump it up field and fight for the 2nd ball. was crazy because the pitches was like mud bath and cow fields. modern day footballers would never play on and games would have been called off

 

[SWP's back]

It would be ultimate typical City to end up banned next season whilst CAS investigate because we didn't request it to be suspended (admittedly the situation was unforeseeable, but still)

I’m sure we can fire off an email.

In fact, one of us could probably check their server and see if we have.

 

[Plain Speaking]

will this affect seedings?....if the season is null and void then we are still champions.

I suppose it's all up in the air now. Reports from the media are that finishing this season's domestic competition's are the top priority, to avoid being sued by club's losing out. Personally I think they may try and complete domestic matches behind closed doors in the summer, early autumn, subject to the health situation at that time.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

There seems little on topic news on the thread. Apologies if already reported.
Simon Stone mentioned us briefly this morning:
"The Court of Arbitration for Sport put a note out last night saying all cases were being put on hold until the beginning of May.
This means Manchester City's appeal against a two-year ban from the Champions League is on hold.
City are yet to ask for the ban to be put on hold."

Isn't the last line a red herring. Surely if City asked CAS for suspension of the ban it would just be a private communication between both parties and Simon Stone would not be in the loop.

 

[petrusha]

It would be ultimate typical City to end up banned next season whilst CAS investigate because we didn't request it to be suspended (admittedly the situation was unforeseeable, but still)

I don't have time to check the CAS's rules now, but I'd be very surprised if there was no provision for us, in these circumstances, to be able to apply to amend our previous submission to include such a request.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

It would be ultimate typical City to end up banned next season whilst CAS investigate because we didn't request it to be suspended (admittedly the situation was unforeseeable, but still)

Failing to identify an unforeseeable situation is typical City? Think you might need to rethink that one, fella!

 

[Plain Speaking]

Isn't the last line a red herring. Surely if City asked CAS for suspension of the ban it would just be a private communication between both parties and Simon Stone would not be in the loop.

You would assume a reputable journalist would have received news from one party or the other to back up clear statements, rather than just make stuff up?
But who knows for sure...

 

[Chris in London]

You would assume a reputable journalist would have received news from one party or the other to back up clear statements, rather than just make stuff up?
But who knows for sure...

who is this reputable journalist of whom you speak?

because it isn’t Simon Stone

 

[SilvaisSkyBlue]

You would assume a reputable journalist would have received news from one party or the other to back up clear statements, rather than just make stuff up?
But who knows for sure...

Stone is a vile cúnt who will report anything negative about our club, and funnily enough anything positive about our nearby Trafford friends, reputable he is not.

Just watch him at any pre/post match press conference, he will think of the most bizarre nonsense nothing to do with the match question just to stir up shít, utter cùnt.

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

who is this reputable journalist of whom you speak?

because it isn’t Simon Stone

He works for the BBC and he's a Rag's fan.

There is only one conclusion.

 

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

Today's analysis suggests that the peak of the epidemic in the UK will not be until late June or early July if the latest measures are at all successful. It is hard to see professional football restarting before the peak has clearly passed and this peak will only be obvious with considerable hindsight. I can't see this domestic season being completed and the UEFA tournaments seem doomed.

 

[nmc]

Stone is a vile cúnt who will report anything negative about our club, and funnily enough anything positive about our nearby Trafford friends, reputable he is not.

Just watch him at any pre/post match press conference, he will think of the most bizarre nonsense nothing to do with the match question just to stir up shít, utter cùnt.

His behaviour in and around our club is reprehensible- can’t fathom why we let him in every week - helping himself to food and drink and as you say constantly looking to stir shit and cause trouble.

 

[nmc]

Today's analysis suggests that the peak of the epidemic in the UK will not be until late June or early July if the latest measures are at all successful. It is hard to see professional football restarting before the peak has clearly passed and this peak will only be obvious with considerable hindsight. I can't see this domestic season being completed and the UEFA tournaments seem doomed.

with a second peak expected to mirror the seasonal flu cycle - Football could be off the agenda until early 2021.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Don't know if anyone posted something like the following. Wouldn't it be nice (Beach Boys) if the clubs that changed FFP from debt to owner investment to snare City and PSG now struggle to service the debts they have and don't survive a long shutdown easily. UEFA may then admit what a wonderful plan debt free City have and all clubs should now follow City's blueprint.

Nice idea that they would suffer most, but unfortunately the teams that really are going to suffer are lower league teams that depend on match day attendances to pay wages.
This could decimate football.

 

[nmc]

If you were the Finance Director at a PL team just now you’d be worried. No prospect of football until at least the autumn. Summer events like concerts likely to be cancelled. It’s March - so you could have six months of costs - with limited ability to cut costs and next to no money coming in. A few teams are going to suffer and speculation re transfers is ridiculous- teams will quickly be switching to survival mode. Even by cutting bonuses the likes of the Rags will probably need to cover wages of circa £150m over the next six months - so any ludicrous transfer plans they had will be on hold. What will Jim White and Sky do with no football and the Rags not being linked to everyone ?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I really have no idea,i would imagine we are not very happy being left hanging but we just have to accept ig
@Prestwich_Blue have you heard anything?

Not heard owt and our City Matters meeting sue this Thursday gas been cancelled, unsurprisingly.

 

[hello]

There's plenty of scope to apply for preliminary relief should it be required, and with a 10 day turnaround June would probably be the cut off to do so if next seasons competition was starting in July which is far from likely.

https://www.tas-cas.org/en/arbitration/code-procedural-rules.html