Khaldoon has done interviews with overseas business media but sensibly doesn't do many with the UK press. I can't think of any circumstances where he would ever do an interview with a biased moron like Harris.Looking at Rob harris article on AP cannot believe he writes such rubbish sticking to the line that our defence is that the emails are hacked but the snide dig at the fact we conduct in house interviews rather than press conferences. I find that really confusing one other than the publicly traded sports clubs (which report more often) how much access do we get to CEOs or chairmen of clubs ? How often do they do in house interviews let alone public press conferences ? Even if other clubs do these how could we do this on this matter given the sensitive legal nature where responses and perhaps even questions have to be restricted. I think city use to not do anything at the end of the year in terms of interviews with the Chairmen. What did we use to do ? Any idea what other clubs do ?
Had no idea it was 2 years and a £30M fine the cheeky twats.
What's that effectively? Best part of £200M at least and they think that will stick?
"You took the words right out of my mouth".What planet have you been on since February 14th? ;)
Should make him or Pr man pay him 100k a week and he will be nice as pie. You reckon he would take it.
Financial fair play is all about stopping clubs going bust apparently.
Can't see them sacking Pearce, tho' he deserves it. We had previous with emails showing disrespect and Cook was sacked. Cliff should have known better and must go. If we lose, I expect Soriano will want to fall on his sword. Shame really, because he is talented at the commercial game, but his statements put his honour at stake.I had also forgotten how much Simon Cliff was involved in some of the contentious emails and the aggressive responses to UEFA. It was he who made the joke about the death of the UEFA official. Whatever the truth of what happened I still believe that Simon Pearce and Simon Cliff did not do City any favours with their cack-handed approach to serious business matters. I would like to see them both removed from CFG whether we win or lose. However it looks like Soriano is being lined up as the fall guy if the decision goes against us.
The whole farce could have been avoided and we played into the hands of our enemies.
From my own recollection, it was Aabar, Etisalat and Visit Abu Dhabi, which we're deemed related parties and subsequently we agreed not to increase those deals over a certain number of years?
I don't believe Etihad was deemed a related party.
What was that MMA ? I obviously missed something there.
Surely 2-1 is a win. If 2 are convinced, surely.I'm expecting a reduction but not exoneration if only because it allows for dissent amongst the judges. For a clear yes or no it would take a unanimous decision and "irrefutable" evidence one way or the other. Compromise makes a panel decision easier to achieve.
There's nothing to leak, no decision has been made.They’ll be a leak somewhere
Pure guesswork on my part but maybe the Etihad books really are the key to all this. It could be that City were relying on Etihad’s statement of no wrongdoing during the investigation, along with perhaps some bank statements showing where the money came from into the club. Maybe UEFA weren’t satisfied and wanted to see more, ie: Etihad’s books, and Etihad politely told them to piss off because that’s none of UEFA’s business. UEFA then think that we have something to hide, dish out the punishment, so Etihad throw their books open at the CAS appeal.
Surely 2-1 is a win. If 2 are convinced, surely.
Absolutely. Chelsea and then City saved English football from itself. United won 13 out of 20 Premier Leagues. They had an income at least six times higher than their nearest rivals and no one has ever batted an eyelid even though their longest-running sponsor is Saudi Telecom and they have £500m of debt. Their glory years are repeated relentlessly on SKY TV without any caveats.Thing is, if ADUG hadn't had come along I've no doubts that our league would have gone the same way with United dominating it yearly.
We really opened the gates.
If that was their train of thought then they are thicker than i thought. Etihad are no more obliged to open their books for CAS than they are for UEFA
Absolutely, but maybe they reluctantly agreed to do so at CAS so as to put this matter to bed once and for all
You are meatloaf and I claim my £5"You took the words right out of my mouth".