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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Delboy352 said:
I’ll bet there are a few employers out there who’ll be glad when this is over...seems everyone has been on here every day a lately!!
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Yeah, this thread has been buzzing the last few days considering there's been feck all to say other than CAS appearl has started and Cas appeal has ended. Decision pending.

No doubt that last bit will occur on the 12th to either make or break my b'day!
 
JRockBlues said:
Yeah, this thread has been buzzing the last few days considering there's been feck all to say other than CAS appearl has started and Cas appeal has ended. Decision pending.

No doubt that last bit will occur on the 12th to either make or break my b'day!
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It’s been like the “It’s quiet” threads...you go for a brew and you’ve got 10 pages waiting for you when you get back!!
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
I think it very telling that the CAS statement felt the need to assert both sides were happy with how the proceedings were conducted.

That's got to be a reference to how unsatisfactory we found the IC AC process.

For me, that could already be an indicator of how much further recognition and concern was raised this week.
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Do you think? I took it as much of a comment on technology as proceedings, i.e so that neither side can later say there were issues with video conferencing, or that they weren't properly heard. Given our claims, they perhaps wanted to make sure we can't also claim they weren't impartial as well.

Let's hope though the positive dimension you attribute to it really is there.
 
Coatigan said:
Do you think? I took it as much of a comment on technology as proceedings, i.e so that neither side can later say there were issues with video conferencing, or that they weren't properly heard. Given our claims, they perhaps wanted to make sure we can't also claim they weren't impartial as well.
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That’s how I interpreted it too, tbh. Wouldn’t read too much into that statement.
 
Ballymagash Blue said:
And we're trying to get to heaven before they close the door!
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Murph said:
It's a very high profile case, I don't know if CAS release statements like this after every hearing, but I doubt Matthieu Reeb, general secretary of CAS, comments on many, if any cases at all during a hearing. I think they 100% realise what's at stake here, and the potential fallout. I believe CAS are just emphasising that the hearing was conducted in a fair manner suiting both ourselves and uefa.

It's called covering their back.
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Yes, that's my view. It's an anodyne statement that people are reading into too much, however, it does emphasise that City have had the fair hearing that their February statement said they were denied by UEFA. Put it this way - the hearing would not have been concluded until both sides were able to confirm that they were happy with how it was conducted.

This will be an exceptionally busy few weeks for the three arbitrators. They not only have to make a decision but they then have to promulgate an appeal determination addressing all of the facts and evidence presented to them. When you consider that the determination for CAS 1 was 40 pages long just to say that we hadn't exhausted all avenues of redress with UEFA, this time we're in for some hefty bedtime reading packed with complex legal jargon.

If things go as well as we all hope they do, the arbitrators will be having a conference call today saying "how on Earth did UEFA even allow this to come to us?" According to Martin Samuel, UEFA are the most frequent visitors to CAS. When you consider that the IOC (responsible for thousands of individual athletes in a variety of disciplines) falls under the CAS remit, this is a very poor reflection on UEFA's corporate governance model. It's highly embarrassing, in fact. He may not be popular, but Dominic Cummings once remarked to the effect that when you first enter Westminster, you wait for a door to open where you find all the intelligent people but it never materialises. He could easily have been describing UEFA.
 
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