Even BBC radio Manchester, you know, our local station, failed to go into any kind of detail as to why it “failed” and what it all actually means truthfully, pretty bad really that even they are happy to go along the sensationalist line.Meanwhile the headline tickers still scroll on CNN, Sky, BBC et al - that our challenge has 'failed'
I can accept the use of the word 'failure' as we appealed to CAS but failed to have that appeal heard.Meanwhile our reputation continues to be deliberately damaged by US owned/influenced media reports of 'Man City's failure'
- not looking a great deal in PR terms at least currently.
I'd say you're wrong on that last bit as the 5 year time limit for reopening a case has passed. UEFA is now time-barred from bringing a case that relates to the 2014 settlement. This is their only shot at this.CAS rejected our appeal it on a technicality. It doesn't mean that that the reason for the appeal goes away. Like the sun rising and setting it is a fact that UEFA broke their own FFP process rules as they DIDN'T respond to City's deposition as they are supposed to do.
I'm actually quite pleased they did, as a victory at CAS would simply have resulted in UEFA having to rerun the previous investigatory phase. Now, CAS can kick the whole judgement out when it is made.
We shall see how strong our case is when the AC files it's judgement. It could kick the process back to the investegtory phase due to a bad process.
Yes, you're probably right, but don't be under the impression the likes of the Dippers are universally adored.This is essentially it, in a nutshell!
No one likes us, no one respects us, everyone's waiting for the day we crash and burn. Journalists will forever shit stir, pundits will forever make snidey comments, refs will do their best to fuck us over, social media will forever brand us as cheats.
Get used to it and accept it everyone but my god if or when we win stuff just think how much its killing them all inside.
It could still be their way out of delivering a ban.I'd say you're wrong on that last bit as the 5 year time limit for reopening a case has passed. UEFA is now time-barred from bringing a case that relates to the 2014 settlement. This is their only shot at this.
It's no great secret. It's been said already that UEFA mugged us in 2013 when they assured us a number of times that we were on course to meet the requirements to be able to use the get-out clause in FFP involving wages paid in our 2012 accounts. Then as soon as we'd filed those accounts they shafted us by changing the rules so we couldn't then use it. And then had the cheek to punish us for it.
It's also been said on here that the American owned clubs, particularly the rags and dippers, are the main source of negative stories against us. Then there's Spygate and there's a reason why that was brought up. My suspicion is that something else has been going on more recently with that & the club wanted to send a warning shot across Liverpool's bows.
You really don't have to be Masterspy to make the link to the former CEO's of those two clubs who are in powerful positions at UEFA.
I'd say you're wrong on that last bit as the 5 year time limit for reopening a case has passed. UEFA is now time-barred from bringing a case that relates to the 2014 settlement. This is their only shot at this.
Another way of looking at it - if CAS had upheld our appeal, we would have faced the accusation 'Well, you only got off on a technicality because UEFA cocked up'. In any case, we want to win the case on the facts - not a technicality. Khaldoon is so right on this point.That's the puzzling thing for me. None of the journalists is asking this question. Something has been going on and my suspicion is that CAS & UEFA have been waiting for each other to make the first move. "After you". "No. After you". "I absolutely insist" etc.
If UEFA had made a final decision then CAS can hear the appeal (if they find us guilty & we want to pursue it) or can drop it (if not). On the other hand, if CAS do decide to hear the appeal before UEFA hand down their final decision then that could stymie any decision they make. I wonder if they finally decided to talk to each other with CAS agreeing to reject our appeal so that UEFA could announce their decision. That's what should have happened in the first place after all.
Or maybe (and this has just occurred to me) CAS felt there were serious deficiencies in the process UEFA followed, serious enough not to reject our appeal out of hand as they should have done, and were holding off until UEFA agreed to remedy some of the deficiencies and allow us to present the evidence we felt had been ignored originally by the IC in their haste to beat the statute of limitations. That would mean there had been some horse-trading behind the scenes between us, CAS and UEFA to get to this point.
And that is precisely what makes me twitchy. In the last decade we have cost the PL old guard (the rags, the dippers and the Arse, primarily) a small fortune. Not only have we robbed them of trophies and prestige in equal measure, but also bucketloads of cash as we have qualified for the CL several times directly at one of theirs expense. Given the bitter rhetoric that has come out of Tebas and JW Henry in the none too distant past, I'm loathe to believe they're going to let UEFA pass up this one time opportunity to nobble us. Much as I want to believe Sam Lee's version of future events, I'm not going to allow myself to, partly because the thought of worsting them is so delicious. If we ever get to the point where we serve Delaney, Lipton and Harris with a writ, I might just wet myself