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

[paulchapo]

We need a reworking of the 35 years and we're still here song we used to belt out in defiance when we won fuck all. I'm sure it can be tweaked to take in our present predicament.

 

[SebastianBlue]

I’ve just decided that I am going to take some time off from the mediaverse later today and go see 1917...

...to better prepare myself for the coming months.

 

[mexico1970]

The biggest problem we face isn't this ban it's the fact we have always been on the outside, we are hated by the cartel and until we change the medias coverage we are always going to be reported as cheating bastards, it takes the shine off the trophies we win. Some people may like the backs to the wall always on the defensive but this angst shown by other fans and the press alike shows how deeply in the toilet modern football is.

Imagine if players from our squad just ask for a move? That'd cement the non loyalty factor and where would we go then?

 

[TFC]

We need a reworking of the 35 years and we're still here song we used to belt out in defiance when we won fuck all. I'm sure it can be tweaked to take in our present predicament.

I'll start - banned for 2 years and we're still ere

 

[SebastianBlue]

That sounds good but is it fact or your opinion? Has any club taken UEFA to this court previously and had sanctions suspended?

It’s not a fact, in the strictest sense, but that is the precedent for appeals, largely because enforcing a punishment or injunction before the outcome of an appeals process effectively renders the appeals process useless.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Definitely incompetence in our administration/operations. Remember, we are also guilty of 3 ‘doping offences’ in the public’s perception. We know thIs was sloppy admin, but add this to the hacking of our system by Liverpool and then this current shitstorm (again following another hacking of our IT operation)... beggars belief.

Yes. We may have been targeted in a dirty tricks campaign but we have scored plenty of own goals. There is a big communications issue at City going back many years. We don't manage the media well and don't communicate well with the fans (the website is poor). I can't believe that Senior Execs have repeatedly put such inappropriate content in emails when everyone knows they are not a secure method of communication. In most firms this would result in internal disciplinary action. The Liverpool hacking was another security breach. How many warnings do we need? If we lose at CAS I expect our whole top team to be fired. Even if we win they will probably move on. It's the end of an era (but not the end of City)

 

[chesterbells]

Just seen Samuel is lined up on the sky planner for Sunda Supplement tomorrow. Be worth hearing him I reckon.
@EL APACHE TEVEZ @Blueknows

 

[Centurions]

50/50 i would say,in other words no-one knows as EUFA have documents they said they would make public only if we didn't go to CAS now,we don't know what that is or whst we have on them,thats my reading anyway and i've read every post @pudge

UEFA said they would or won't make some things public dependant on whether or not we appeal?

Yeah, sorry Karen but I'm not sure what you're saying there either chuck.

 

[Plain Speaking]

The biggest problem we face isn't this ban it's the fact we have always been on the outside, we are hated by the cartel and until we change the medias coverage we are always going to be reported as cheating bastards, it takes the shine off the trophies we win. Some people may like the backs to the wall always on the defensive but this angst shown by other fans and the press alike shows how deeply in the toilet modern football is.

Imagine if players from our squad just ask for a move? That'd cement the non loyalty factor and where would we go then?

I have always thought our owners should have tried to buy some media organisations to level the playing field.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Chelsea didn't get the transfer ban suspended pending their appeal. Whose decision was that?

I'm not sure, but Barcelona famously had their transfer ban suspended while the appeal process took place and used that to sign Suarez and a shitload of other players. I know that Chelsea had separate appeals against the summer ban and winter ban, and they won their most recent appeal in December.