UEFA FFP investigation - CAS decision to be announced Monday, 13th July 9.30am BST

[Keith Moon]

We don't need to take ffp to court, we would probably sponsor somebody else to do it, like the bosman lawyer.

 

[Tricky_Trev]

Cheer so that makes it clear, it is legally binding.

Yes, it has to be. No loophole in that last sentence.

 

[CC1]

I’m not gonna post the link, but Duncan Arseholes seems to think there’s a Memorandum of Understanding in place, which City are parties to, that prevents any club banned from the CL because of FFP violations, from then having recourse to the Courts to challenge that ban. Behind the Times paywall, so I haven’t read it. Anyone with access able to give us a summation.....and, yeh, I know it’s dopey Duncan

Didn’t stop AC Milan et al!!!

 

[bobmcfc]

I think it’s safe to say we’re fucked then. Just take the ban on the chin we are inevitably getting and quit falling foul of these shitty rules.

I have zero faith in CAS


Let’s just do our summer business quickly before the prem start thinking up ways to fuck us over too

 

[dickie davies]

Yep, may be CAS or bust.
But is the MOU legally binding? Depends on the precise wording in the memorandum.

I’m no legal mind, but it looks robust enough to be legally binding to me.

In one of the first pages it mentions competitive domestic leagues and collective bargaining
I didn't see an exclusion for Spain!

 

[Keith Moon]

...and if we want to press charges we could leave the ECA.

 

[Neville Kneville]

The very last point in the memorandum even states:

So after signing that, I don’t see how we could then argue it’s not binding?

Surely our argument would be, that UEFA have acted in bad faith re the 'agreement' therefore, off we go, to court ?

 

[CC1]

Regardless of the outcome (& I’m now of the opinion we’ll serve a one season CL ban) the club has to get smarter as it’s clear that our rivals are still desperately doing everything they can to sink us.

This means finding ever more creative ways of circumventing FFP as it obviously a weapon aimed directly at us but more importantly we must not get caught out. Allowing effectively all our club mails to be hacked and dumped by an individual was a result of gross negligence and complacency. Possibly the thinking was that after taking a pinch we were home free but that is absolutely not the case.

I’m still very confident for the future as I can’t imagine Sheikh Mansour is going to slink away having been beaten by rival club owners and the bent UEFA.

We don’t need to circumnavigate FFP anymore. The issue we are fighting relates back to 2014 !!!

 

[deano ou812]

Am I being thick,uefa have a rule in place that prevents teams from challenging ffp in court,what absolute bollocks no organisation is above judicial law of any kind,.

 

[Tracking back]

We’ve been here before. We might not be arsed if we get banned from the CL, but the players sure as hell will. Let’s say the ban is 2 or 3 years, you think Kev, Raz, Bernie, etc, won’t be influenced by that in terms of whether they’d want to stay at the club? They aren’t City fans. And notwithstanding that, the revenue the competition generates for us is huge.

There’s lots of fighting talk about how UEFA and the clubs behind this crooked sham will be “fucked” if they punish us, but if we don’t have recourse to the Courts to sue their arses or contest the legality of FFP, I don’t see how they will be

Two words: Peter Walton.

Here was a referee who tried to systematically screw us over. M.C.F.C. wasted no time whatsoever in compiling evidence against him and low and behold he was ushered off to the USA like a gooden.

This assault from the cartel (UEFA) is personal now as far as Sheik Mansour is concerned. What I'm referring to when I say these protectionist clubs are fucked is just that.

The sheik has the financial clout to take these clubs on single handedly. He doesn't have to rely on finances generated from M.C.F.C.

As far as players leaving our club because of lack of CL football you're right. Some will, some won't.

One thing is for sure we will have something other club managers would give their right arm for: "a siege mentality".
Couple that with a champions mentality and there isn't a football club in Europe that can offer that.

The point I'm making is this: Provoke us and you're fucked, leave us be and you're slightly less fucked.