Frankly, proper journalism in football is dead. Petrusha nails it: the days of proper investigative journalism within football are over.
What was Der Spiegel’s “scoop”? It wasn’t exactly Watergate style detective work. A hacker who had first tried to blackmail City sold the stolen emails to Der Spiegel, who paid for them because they were handed them on a plate.
Because that’s what “journalism” in football at least at PL/CL lever has become. Stories are handed to football writers by “sources” who all have their own agendas. Agents, clubs, UEFA officials etc. Who use the media as pawns to further their own interests. And because these days what pays is what clicks, journalism has basically turned into PR for the G14 clubs.
There used to be some notable exceptions. Henry Winter was once a writer worth reading. Those days are gone. Martin Samuel, much though I respect him, I don’t think does much serious actual journalism these days. Mostly he seems to me to offering his opinion on the issues of the day. Which is well worth reading, don’t get me wrong, but I think his days of chasing the story down are over, and in fairness he’s earned it.
So who is it out there who might answer your question? Why was this disastrous prosecution launched, and how could UEFA possibly have concluded City had acted dishonestly on such flimsy evidence?
The answer, sadly, to the question “when will this get investigated” is “it won’t.” Not because the story isn’t worth researching and writing, but because journalism at this level doesn’t work like that any more.