CAS judgement: UEFA ban overturned, City exonerated (report out p603)

Newman Noggs said:
The winning side is always "generous" in yerms of their costs and it's great when that cheque arrives (after a bit of haggling). Double slap in the chops when you have to pay out for losing though.
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I imagine €10k/hr not out of the question for the initial costs bill for 2 QC’s...
 
Newman Noggs said:
You are correct. Where an obligation exists to co-operate with investigators it is not for the subject of the investigation to decide whether or not to co-operate. It's an allegation it's very difficult to lose on and we never denied it anyway but simply offered mitigation.

If you think about it, if non-co-operation was permitted, those who were up to no good would never co-operate thus denying investigators evidence they are entitled to. So whilst we had good trust-related (and probably commercial) reasons not to co-operate, it would be an exceptional ruling to find in our favour. I think that will go to costs but @Shads may be correct as regards arbitration. I've only been involved in High Court proceedings.
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Prevailing party in Arbitrations is a lot less scientific than the win or lose each element of claim aspect in High Court. The panel will look at what was most important to each party and the level of evidence provided in respect of those issues. It’s entirely clear that City won on the main issue. Let’s face it CAS even put it in big capital letters in their press release!!!!
 
We've done a special Blue Moon Podcast off the back of the judgement this morning - looking at what it means, if it kills off FFP, and if City will now go all guns blazing in the transfer market:
 
LGWIO said:
Well done, not that there is anything really to applaud City for.....well maybe for actually showing UEFA up as biased/corrupt or many other words.
Do quite admire the quiet knowing confidence of the owners waiting to stick it to UEFA in such a high profile way
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It may not just be UEFA that we stick the boot into. ;)
 
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I'm hoping the final award will refer to wider aspects, e.g. "Manchester City argued, as background to their submission, that FFP was specifically designed to attack their business model and was an unfair restraint of trade, but agreed that this belief was not part of their defence in this case".
 
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Yes we got away with it. Due to UEFA nor keeping watch on the time scale for bringing charges against us. That is what most of the papers will say tomorrow. They will not say that we were set free by CAS, even if CAS said that a fine of almost £9 million says we were not totally forth coming with UEFA.

Now the question us fans will want to know is, are the Board of Manchester City now going after all those papers who published libel articles about the club. Me on a personnel level will say yes. let's go after them and sue them for as much money as we can get.

The number 1 paper is Der Speigel with the Editor, the Journalist, and the Board of Directors all of them in line. If this bankrupts some of them then so be it. Then we should go after all the British papers as well. This after all will help with our FFP in the future.
 
Fully expected us to get bummed on this, so delighted with the news. I voted we'd have the ban upheld, I also voted that we lose to Liverpool, so maybe I ought to vote in the negative more often. I'm off to the transfer forum!
 
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