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

[Brendan110_0]

Puma may pull their sponsorship deal now.

 

[Vegas]

Good article by Martin Samuel https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...acket-payback-clubs-hate-Manchester-City.html

 

[Eds]

City owner has said he will spend £30,000 000 on the Worlds best lawyers to tackle UEFA.

Fighting talk that is.................

Source?

 

[paulchapo]

Liverpool get 6 years for mass murder
City get 2 years for spending their own money

Two totally separate issues and that event has been whitewashed from history.

 

[SidJames]

Strange World we live in.... Julian Assange faces life in a US Prison and beeing waterboarded daily be the CIA for hacking emails.

Meanwhile UEFA used hacked emails by a criminal that can obviously not be authentically verified to be Judge,Jury,and executioner.

Can you imagine trying to make such evidence admissible in a real Court of Law.

UEFA is the very definition of corruption.

 

[marco]

City were aware of the verdict of UEFAs investigation on Jan 23rd.
If you think City, knowing they had no chance of having this over turned in the CAS, wouldn’t leak a thing and allow this to slap us/the fans in the face immediately - you’re delusional and a bit too pessimistic (city fan or not)

the gesturing and threats from UEFA in this case stand for little when a legitimate & legal appeal is lodged

the heavy fine will be down processed to a more reasonable, standard value upon appeal too.

watch this space.

most sensible post yet

 

[Citizen Green]

There’s another element to this too.

Defending against Uefa is one thing. I’ve never cared for FFP and I’d rather we’d fought against it.

However, we didn’t, instead we became self sustaining and we made quite a big thing about how good our business model was. As a fan, I bought into that fully.

If, and it’s still an if, we cooked the books, then it won’t annoy me that we failed ffp or try to hoodwink Uefa. I’d be more annoyed that the vision of self sustainability and when we got there that was sold to me as a fan was a myth.

Had we ignored ffp, spent what we liked and accepted all the consequences, I’d have backed the owners to the hilt. Had we challenged uefa immediately about ffp as a principle, I’d have backed the owners to the hilt. If they’ve lied to me as a fan in order to lie to uefa and created the pretence that we’ve passed and our business model was always sound, that’s where I start to have an issue.

I don’t know which one yet is actually true. I want to believe and have always backed that the club is right and will continue to do so unless I see enough to think otherwise. The email leak was worrying to say the least though and if we have been misled (and I mean us as fans rather than Uefa) then my support for the owners will go very quickly.

It’s just a wait and see now though. Feels like we’re approaching the end game.

Clearly, the hacked emails relate to the period we were sanctioned in initially (2014)

I have no doubt we ‘cooked the books’ in this period and treated the rules with the contempt they deserved. The business model now is one of the best in the game on the back of the initial inflations.

Don’t forget UEFA deemed the Etihad deal was fair value.

 

[Tommy_Catons_Perm]

Impossible for me, needed a shit and a shave, and popped down to the shop for a box of lagers, just jumped 30 pages or so.

Don't suppose I've missed anything important?

City relegated to the National League North.

 

[Blue Bogey]

We have faced it before and we can stand up to it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of our frustrations and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination.

 

[Ric]

I don't think we will accept any punishment until our last avenue has been explored. I'd hope not anyway.

You would hope not. Khaldoon specifically said we wouldn’t, and hopefully he is as good as his word.