I'm not sure they did reduce because UEFA had leaked. My memory may be faulty but the fine was reduced because it was unclear how much was related to the charge of non cooperation. CAS were pretty miffed about our lack of cooperation and told us they should take up the leaking with UEFAGiven that senior officials from UEFA were systematically leaking confidential business information about City throughout the process I am certain that if there were any "smoking gun" documents they would also have been leaked. Remember that CAS reduced our non-co-operation allegation to a much lower fine because they accepted that UEFA had leaked information.
What confuses me, is that in March 2023, Mancini said he hadn't been contacted by anyone at the Premier League.Quite a lot of the media noise seems to be shifting to our perceived lack of cooperation rather than breaking any financial rules, almost as though they’re hearing rumblings that this is all the Premier League has left in their hopes of pinning something on us.
Tbf none cooperation in of itself is a bullshit charge, if the pl want to make a case against the club then it is up to the pl to provide the evidence, quite simply if you want me to kill me id be a fucking idiot to hand you the gun, yet this is what the pl were expecting
Fixed that for youNot for the first time I'm struck by the fact that Simon Jordan has a deep desire to be the smartest man in the PHONE BOX and that he has chased that desire to being in a PHONE BOX with ex-footballers and tabloid journalists taking calls from drunk football fans.
Jordan hasn’t got a clue. Slandering City constantly. And stealing a living on Talk Shite.
Jordan is only interested in a guilty verdict and the quicker it comes the happier he will be. He does look as though he's somewhat enraged that The Good Sheikh, Koolhand Khaldoon, Pep and the entire squad haven't been consigned to The Tower as a precursor.Guess who's the lawyer and football finance expert? And who isn't?
oh because its football it's ok to accuse people of a decade of fraud and than expect City not to be given time to defend themselves.
What fucking world does Jordan live in ?
Koolhand Khaldoon. I like it.Jordan is only interested in a guilty verdict and the quicker it comes the happier he will be. He does look as though he's somewhat enraged that The Good Sheikh, Koolhand Khaldoon, Pep and the entire squad haven't been consigned to The Tower as a precursor.
Punch drunk?
I was wondering when his boat was going to set sail. Not quite Sinbad the sailor.Jordan is only interested in a guilty verdict and the quicker it comes the happier he will be. He does look as though he's somewhat enraged that The Good Sheikh, Koolhand Khaldoon, Pep and the entire squad haven't been consigned to The Tower as a precursor.
I remember Mancini saying that. I suppose it’s quite possible that the independent panel have contacted him in the meantime but that then begs the question why the PL didn’t. I mean, the person right at the centre of that particular allegation and they didn’t bother to speak to him about it?What confuses me, is that in March 2023, Mancini said he hadn't been contacted by anyone at the Premier League.
The investigation supposedly started in December 2018.
Sounds like there was very little investigation to cooperate with.
Been top on this thread son.All imho, but :
First, because the club thinks, under the rules, they aren't required to.
Second, because if the club started giving information they aren't required to, the PL could have asked for more and more and a refusal to do so, having done it once, could be seen negatively. It's a question of controlling the information flow.
Put it this way, at CAS the club provided an analysis of payments made by ADUG over a certain threshold to show that no monies had gone from ADUG to Etihad. UEFA had some concerns about this report. Had the club presented this report to the CFCB, UEFA could have asked for changes to the report, different information. At CAS, the tribunal could only balance the relevant of weight of the report presented and UEFA's concerns on it. There were no negative connotations to be drawn from the procedure.
Always a rule. Never volunteer information.
Genuinely - if that's what happens, I hope we refuse to accept it and challenge it, because I want total exhonerationThat's how I think it will end. Can't see how PL can prove their case so they'll probably give us a fine for non co-operation to save some face. Even when found not guilty, we know non City fans will see us as guilty anyway but I've become fairly immune to that and the 'What about City" knobs. The best thing about it will be the seethe when City are found not guilty. They'll need to put a protective ring around the Runcorn bridge to stop the dippers committing hari kari.