FIFA investigation: No transfer ban

[cheekybids]

Retweeted by our mate Dan Roan

If you’d like to complain to the BBC then I’ll tweet “Roan under investigation”

If he gets away with it I’ll be astonished & you can quote me on that ;)

 

[CelesteItis]

Them:

 

[the talisman]

This thread is getting a bit unwieldy, as too many people are linking the FIFA (astonishingly lenient :-)) fine with the UEFA FFP case.
Can we keep the FFP stuff seperate, there is a thread for that.....

 

[PrezIke]

Are you the one who posts on rag cafe?

Surely not?

He did get me, sadly. I'm ashamed to say, but I just can't hide it anymore.

I also forgot to mention....Miguel Delaney and I are best mates and he's always right about the club, as is Barney Ronay. Duncan Castles is a bit of a ponce, but look at him, come now.

I'm doing my PhD in cultural anthropology and economics on sportswashing and hope to be published and teach it at uni in Saudi Arabia. I think I might just have a chance but human rights are a bit of an issue there, so not sure if I can quite figure it out yet.

 

[BosnianBlue]

You've got a bit of Stockholm syndrome though.

Poor soul feels guilty if we played dirty. Lol.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

If you look closely you can clearly see he's saying the words "Manchest Yernarted"

I thought he was hungry - seems to be having a few snaps at that steward's hat!

 

[Stoned Rose]

Yeah, I don't think so either. Maybe within UEFA member nations, but I doubt it.

IMO with the latest revelations regarding PSG avoiding FFP punishment, however, I can't see us avoiding a CL ban.

I know there's the "legal" argument against it, but politically, for City to go to court over it I would think it cost a lot of money. This hurts the club's bottom line and therefore ability to meet FFP. The political fallout for the club could also be rather harmful.

For CFG to go to court on a technicality when you know you actually did something that is clearly wrong is risky to the club's reputation. Yes even if we believe FFP is designed to get "us" we are well aware that most of the public does not agree with us and sees us as the big bad boogie man that's "state owned" and "ruining football."

Average football fans may dislike UEFA, and feel they are corrupt, but they are the governing body who they are aware can punish us. They saw PSG get away with it and now know they really did get off on a technicality that reeks of corruption. If they feel that can happen, then UEFA also gets political capital to cover their mistakes, and fans an arguably false sense of satisfaction for once about City and PSG who most hate more than any club, despite the hypocrisy of this for RM, Barca, Utd...we all get that.

Feels to me we have to be the club that falls on the sword or is made an example of by UEFA to maintain what flimsy respect they have left.

Nonsense.

 

[dickie davies]

Nonsense.

What were Khaldoon's words!
I would rather spend £50m on the best lawyers than accept any punishment

 

[old get]

Ziegler in today s Times is worth reading for context, size and scale of the 2 offenders.
For once he comes across as fair and almost balanced.
Perhaps he hates both clubs !

 

[CharliesRightPeg]

Ziegler in today s Times is worth reading for context, size and scale of the 2 offenders.
For once he comes across as fair and almost balanced.
Perhaps he hates both clubs !

He seemed a bit arsy yesterday and today's where he's had to acknowledge that City's punishment did fit the crime was a little flat but it's a change to see a balanced report