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

City Man said:
Bloody hell. I knew nothing about this. My jaw dropped when I read it. What a hypocrite.

Btw am I in a minority of one in not knowing about this?
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Tax avoidance, I think.

Possibly! A whole load of Spanish football names got done over a couple of years. The suspended sentence was typical, and standard under Spanish law.

I think there may have been a law change that caused it, can't remember
 
Jacko1956 said:
Yeh it was apparently they treated the UEFA investigation with contempt that corrupt out of date organisation deserved and new they would get fined, well done Cityfor putting salt in their tea. !!
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Ziegler in the Times (who's been well briefed by City) says that City's refusal to co-operate was on the basis of "the fruit of the poisoned tree" legal principle and the fact that they knew most, if not all, of the allegations were time-barred. He also quoted an unnamed source at City as saying they believed the Qatari Security Services engineered the hack. Wonder if the Saudi action against BeIn Sports is connected?
 
Northblue said:
https://ninetythreetwenty.com/blog/seeing-the-wood-for-the-ffps-manchester-city-uefa-go-to-war/
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MillionMilesAway said:
Tax avoidance, I think.

Possibly! A whole load of Spanish football names got done over a couple of years. The suspended sentence was typical, and standard under Spanish law.

I think there may have been a law change that caused it, can't remember
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Thanks. Sounds like a real den of corruption. Thank God we've got that guy Javier Tebas to shine his light of morality into the dark corners.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Ziegler in the Times (who's been well briefed by City) says that City's refusal to co-operate was on the basis of "the fruit of the poisoned tree" legal principle and the fact that they knew most, if not all, of the allegations were time-barred. He also quoted an unnamed source at City as saying they believed the Qatari Security Services engineered the hack. Wonder if the Saudi action against BeIn Sports is connected?
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Think the "fruit" element was poo-poo'd on here the other day by s couple of blues who are lawyers mate.
 
Stoned Rose said:
Think the "fruit" element was poo-poo'd on here the other day by s couple of blues who are lawyers mate.
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Yes, but that was at CAS. we couldn't use it there and I think we tried and failed on the first day of the hearing. But City used it, rightly or wrongly, in refusing to co-operate. And clearly CAS didn't think it applied.
 
The case was done over Zoom or something right? I have the surreal image in my head of tens of top and world-leading lawyers sat there in the bedrooms in shirts, ties, and their pyjama bottoms discussing this case.
 
mccity said:
The case was done over Zoom or something right? I have the surreal image in my head of tens of top and world-leading lawyers sat there in the bedrooms in shirts, ties, and their pyjama bottoms discussing this case.
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Erm, it really is like that at the moment in lots of arbitration...
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Ziegler in the Times (who's been well briefed by City) says that City's refusal to co-operate was on the basis of "the fruit of the poisoned tree" legal principle and the fact that they knew most, if not all, of the allegations were time-barred. He also quoted an unnamed source at City as saying they believed the Qatari Security Services engineered the hack. Wonder if the Saudi action against BeIn Sports is connected?
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Do you think most of the allegations are time barred or not established? Obviously, we need to wait for the official CAS findings, but I am hoping for the latter?
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
Ziegler in the Times (who's been well briefed by City) says that City's refusal to co-operate was on the basis of "the fruit of the poisoned tree" legal principle and the fact that they knew most, if not all, of the allegations were time-barred. He also quoted an unnamed source at City as saying they believed the Qatari Security Services engineered the hack. Wonder if the Saudi action against BeIn Sports is connected?
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The CAS statement says that the Club did not disguise equity funding as sponsorship.
This surely means that this was proven by the Club to the satisfaction of the Adjudicators and was not simply a time barred issue.
 
Withnail said:
Do you think most of the allegations are time barred or not established? Obviously, we need to wait for the official CAS findings, but I am hoping for the latter?
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CAS called these "serious violations" so I'd assume they investigated them, regardless of the time-barring issue. But all UEFA had was the Der Spiegel emails and, I believe, only the ones actually published as I said a while ago. They had fuck all.
 
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