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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richards30 said:
Fucking hell, was on this morning and everything seemed positive and now come back to our best FFP and legal eagles making it sound like we are fucked! :-(
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willipp said:
Exactly my thoughts. It’s gradually got glummer and glummer all day to the point where it sounds like we’re fucked.
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All that has happened is that the wild optimism that we're definitely going to prevail and proceed to rip UEFA & all our enemies a new one has disappeared. Instead a more nuanced view has taken over whereby we could / should win but also we have to bear in mind that we might lose.
 
there is a meeting set by Uefa's executive committee on the 17th of june ?? its mainly for the champions league new last eight mini tournament

but i have a nasty feeling they will be doing hoops and patting each other on the backs with a statement of victory in europe over manchester city and football
 
ChicagoBlue said:
I have a feeling we will all know for certain soon, so why the machinations of trying to understand a ridiculously complicated legal case, far above anyone’s pay grade, with documentation and evidence none of us have seen?

It’ll be what it’ll be and the world will not end.
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Don't be so sure bout the world,and im not so sure that i can live 1998 once again.... :(
 
Tb1981 said:
Be careful Miguel Delaney says uefa got their A team on this!
You know as opposed to the usual Reserve team lawyers they let loose on everyone else
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Maybe Rob Harris has told him the lawyers were provided by Qatar via his inside sources?
 
dickie davies said:
Or he looked at it and said "This is a nailed on win for you Mr Khaldoon. You really don't need to be paying me twenty grand a day when a colleague of mine can easily reinforce your evidence at a substantially less cost"
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Or, he said I'm not taking the case it could harm my reputation
 
City as a business would have settled if they didn't have a legal opinion suggesting they had a high chance of success.

I've been there before through my own work. Nothing like this of course, but you get a Counsel's opinion and they run through the options and generally will seek to avoid a case going to court unless they are going to win it. And they always tend to be cautious about your chances. It might involve a bluff by taking it to court. It might be that with the right judge you get a decision and when the wrong one is announced you call it quits and settle outside of the process.

City could have taken a year. Could have taken the fine. You don't fight it just because you got stung once before, not in business. There has to be a confidence it's nonsense to I'll share that view. The rising scepticism is purely because UEFA are involved and you can't help feel CAS will somehow be influenced. But that's not what CAS is about so I remain confident it will go away.

We're guilty either way of course. The papers will report that despite the breaches we haven't been punished again. And we'll have to ride that and move on.

The only thing that could impact the above is the current situation and the impact financially moving forwards. Perhaps City may have settled in usual circumstances, but instead have a more pressing need to fight this in the hope we don't get a ban and avoid further financial punishment in the current economic/sporting context due to Covid-19.
 
supercity88 said:
City as a business would have settled if they didn't have a legal opinion suggesting they had a high chance of success.

I've been there before through my own work. Nothing like this of course, but you get a Counsel's opinion and they run through the options and generally will seek to avoid a case going to court unless they are going to win it. And they always tend to be cautious about your chances. It might involve a bluff by taking it to court. It might be that with the right judge you get a decision and when the wrong one is announced you call it quits and settle outside of the process.

City could have taken a year. Could have taken the fine. You don't fight it just because you got stung once before, not in business. There has to be a confidence it's nonsense to I'll share that view. The rising scepticism is purely because UEFA are involved and you can't help feel CAS will somehow be influenced. But that's not what CAS is about so I remain confident it will go away.

We're guilty either way of course. The papers will report that despite the breaches we haven't been punished again. And we'll have to ride that and move on.

The only thing that could impact the above is the current situation and the impact financially moving forwards. Perhaps City may have settled in usual circumstances, but instead have a more pressing need to fight this in the hope we don't get a ban and avoid further financial punishment in the current economic/sporting context due to Covid-19.
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I agree mate, but we only have Bareda's supposed claim to individuals that Uefa offered us a way out?

If they didn't, we have had to go all in anyhow?
 
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