We should invite the whole lot to a 'clear the air meeting' at the Shard, put them in a lift and cut the cable.Has anyone checked on Miguel, Ewan or Wee Dunc? Might be advisable to lock the cutlery drawers in the Castles, Delaney and McKenna residences this evening. We don't want them doing anything silly.
Do we?
Some slight backtracking already going on with the article with comments that we might not even get a fine.
yep
i think uefa thought we would buckle and just take more punishment because of the leaked emails that was doing the rounds had to be true, but city did the other thing and knew nothing was in hiding so jumped to the CAS to call uefa bluff and i think it worked or they would have done something before now
also i truly believe all this leaked stuff was done by a couple of major club to hide the fact one was was doing the hacking ?? i can smell a rat a scouse rat who was hacking into manchester city scouting accounts and another in germany who have always had it in for us and maybe using dirty tricks to stop us
I wonder if UEFA's route out of this is now to say that they believe we definitely fiddled the books but, had they known about this in 2014 when they issued sanctions, it wouldn't have made any difference to the outcome anyway, we've since been fully compliant and they believe no further sanction is required and the matter is now closed for good.This is more like it.....fine us you ****s and see what happens!!
I wonder if UEFA's route out of this is now to say that they believe we definitely fiddled the books but, had they known about this in 2014 when they issued sanctions, it wouldn't have made any difference to the outcome anyway, we've since been fully compliant and they believe no further sanction is required and the matter is now closed for good.
That way they can find us guilty and justify the second investigation, but reduce the risk of us taking further legal action. We then say that we don't accept their findings, we've done nothing wrong and the investigation was as a result of stolen documents but as we've not suffered any punishment then we won't be taking this further. Or we could just go to CAS, which wouldn't really have a major impact on UEFA or FFP even if we won.
I wonder if UEFA's route out of this is now to say that they believe we definitely fiddled the books but, had they known about this in 2014 when they issued sanctions, it wouldn't have made any difference to the outcome anyway, we've since been fully compliant and they believe no further sanction is required and the matter is now closed for good.
That way they can find us guilty and justify the second investigation, but reduce the risk of us taking further legal action. We then say that we don't accept their findings, we've done nothing wrong and the investigation was as a result of stolen documents but as we've not suffered any punishment then we won't be taking this further. Or we could just go to CAS, which wouldn't really have a major impact on UEFA or FFP even if we won.
./ Thanks Georgeinadmissible btw OP
I still think they will find us guilty of a lesser trumped-up charge that allows them to fine us a paltry amount, which we will begrudgingly accept in order to draw a line under the whole affair.I wonder if UEFA's route out of this is now to say that they believe we definitely fiddled the books but, had they known about this in 2014 when they issued sanctions, it wouldn't have made any difference to the outcome anyway, we've since been fully compliant and they believe no further sanction is required and the matter is now closed for good.
That way they can find us guilty and justify the second investigation, but reduce the risk of us taking further legal action. We then say that we don't accept their findings, we've done nothing wrong and the investigation was as a result of stolen documents but as we've not suffered any punishment then we won't be taking this further. Or we could just go to CAS, which wouldn't really have a major impact on UEFA or FFP even if we won.