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

Steadfast said:
@Ric been wondering, does BM have enough storage capacity for another CAS thread?
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This one could run and run.

New investigation brings fresh charges from UEFA. Again dismissed after eighteen months by CAS.

Whereupon Der Spigel 'find' another batch of emails.......
 
Der Spiegel's obsession with us seems faintly ridiculous.

If you imagine it the other way round, it would be like (say) the Daily Telegraph spending years trying to bring down Bayer Leverkusen.

You'd just think: why ?
 
JGL07 said:
This one could run and run.

New investigation brings fresh charges from UEFA. Again dismissed after eighteen months by CAS.

Whereupon Der Spigel 'find' another batch of emails.......
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And coronavirus is still here.

And no fans in stadiums.

And drinks breaks every 15 minutes, with betting adverts.

And VAR is still here.

Beam me up scotty.
 
domalino said:
That's what is so disingenuous about Conn's piece tonight.

New emails cast doubt on CAS Verdict!!!

Except they don't, at all. Even if der Spiegel had caught Pearce in a lie, he might be in shit, but the verdict wouldn't be in doubt.
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I can see there being an in-depth investigation to come up with the 'correct' meaning of 'arrange'.
 
Tricky_Trev said:
PB, can you help me for future arguments with rival fans? What is the relationship between the EEA and ADEC, and their relationship with ADUG? And where exactly Simon Pearce sits in all this? It’s not exactly a secret that Etihad is funded by the Abu Dhabi government. That is perfectly ok. So who are they legitimately funded by? EEA? ADEC? So many acronyms, I just want to understand it better.
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The Executive Affairs Authority is an agency of the Executive Council & it's headed up by Khaldoon Al Mubarak. It acts as an umbrella for a number of committees that provide strategic advice to ADEC. Simon Pearce is a key member of the EAA but it would seem that ADEC ultimately provided the additional funding that Etihad paid us. However powerful Pearce is, it won't be him who signs contracts for sponsorship. But he seems to have been the go-between for ADEC, via the EAA. That's why all this stuff casting doubts on his honesty is nonsense.

Think of it like a solicitor who acts for you when you're buying or selling a house. They don't negotiate with the other party (apart from on any instructions you give them) or arrange your mortgage but they deal with the money on your behalf. The money goes through their accounts and they arrange to get it to you or the other party but they haven't applied for your mortgage on your behalf.

So when Pearce is saying "I owe you £80m" (or whatever it was Etihad needed) he's presumably arranging for ADEC to source those funds. Arranging a movement of cash from one party to another is different from arranging a whole set of contracts. He said he didn't do the latter at CAS and I doubt he was lying. CAS certainly believed him.

ADUG is Sheikh Mansour's private company, through which he bought City and has a majority stake in CFG.
 
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Blue Theatre said:
Der Spiegel's obsession with us seems faintly ridiculous.

If you imagine it the other way round, it would be like (say) the Daily Telegraph spending years trying to bring down Bayer Leverkusen.

You'd just think: why ?
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Because Bayern hate our guts and despise how good we have become. Karl Heinz Rum was just few days ago moaning how we
mit etwas davonkommen. Sure he was on phone pushing these pirate Journos to squeeze what they can . . .
 
Blue Theatre said:
Der Spiegel's obsession with us seems faintly ridiculous.

If you imagine it the other way round, it would be like (say) the Daily Telegraph spending years trying to bring down Bayer Leverkusen.

You'd just think: why ?
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It’s orchestrated by individuals of a certain club or clubs,what was the statement the club released way back when the first batch of hacked emails were released by Der Spiegel ?
 
And that’s why we should have told Bayern to do one with Sane. Transfer goes through, we get cleared and suddenly this. Absolute snakes.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
The Executive Affairs Authority is an agency of the Executive Council & it's headed up by Khaldoon Al Mubarak. It acts as an umbrella for a number of committees that provide strategic advice to ADEC. Simon Pearce is a key member of the EAA but it would seem that ADEC ultimately provided the additional funding that Etihad paid us. However powerful Pearce is, it won't be him who signs contracts for sponsorship. But he seems to have been the go-between for ADEC, via the EAA. That's why all this stuff casting doubts on his honesty is nonsense.

Think of it like a solicitor who acts for you when you're buying or selling a house. They don't negotiate with the other party (apart from on any instructions you give them) or arrange your mortgage but they deal with the money on your behalf. The money goes through their accounts and they arrange to get it to you or the other party but they haven't applied for your mortgage on your behalf.

So when Pearce is saying "I owe you £80m" (or whatever it was Etihad needed) he's presumably arranging for ADEC to source those funds. Arranging a movement of cash from one party to another is different from arranging a whole set of contracts. He said he didn't do the latter at CAS and I doubt he was lying. CAS certainly believed him.

ADUG is Sheikh Mansour's private company, through which he bought City and has a majority stake in CFG.
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That's perfect, thank you for that Colin. Makes a lot more sense now. And also shows how it's absurd for anyone to suggest it's evidence of equity funding disguised as sponsorship. It has sod all to do with ADUG. Whilst Der Spiegel are trying to use it to suggest perjury, many in the media/Twitter will also suggest it's evidence of financial irregularity. It plainly isn't.
 
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Der Spiegel certainly has some more emails against City. none of these emails put City in good light lets be honest.

Cannot believe that when Liverpool hacked us we did really accept 1m fee to sweep the whole thing under the carpet.

Can you imagine if its the other way around, and City would have hacked Liverpool, this story would have been non stop in media and if we offer 1m to them to keep the case quiet they would have laid it out for the media as a bribery to damage us more.

Our reputation has been damaged a lot, and quite simply even after CAS decision the media is 95%- to 5% still running cheaters/guilty/got off stories.

Imagine now what it would be like if CAS says 2 years ban is official...
 
Jam Tomorrow said:
Another thing! When batting away dickheads there is little or no point explaining the CAS ruling, no point in arguing at all. Instead say I know you won’t listen to me so read this from xxx. I’ve done it with dippers, posted links to the scouser Echo that detailed in black and white their £89m breach of FFP for the first reporting period 2011-2014. when we get the empty seats shit, I post pictures of empty stands in Trafford, the Liverpool Echo asking how LFC can fill the 2000 empty seats at every home game etc.
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Please can you post the links for future reference!
 
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