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

[Barcon]

Mate, didn't FFP come in before City was taken over with the big investments?

No.

 

[BamberBridgeBlue]

A look in our trophy cabinent tells us we are not inocent and we are as guilty as hell? What kind of crap is that?

Name a club that has had any period of success that hasn’t had investment in its squad? The investment comes first, then the income comes in later. You can’t have success without breaking their stupid rules.

 

[BLUEMATT23]

If we get cleared we should sue these twats and put a life ban these shit house journos.

 

[plongo]

In my opinion our chairman is the best around and its being reported in the media that we had the chance to take another pinch to avoid a ban.

This time he chose not to accept it and to fight it so he must know that we are innocent of the charges.

take another pinch

what does this mean?

 

[cleavers]

Ha ha, smacks too much of victimhood. We're far from that. We're the only club with the bollocks and resources to take these fuckers on.

Maybe true, but that is what is going on here imho.

Certain clubs want to destroy us and they're doing it via the media and uefa, luckily I don't think our owner is one for being bullied.

 

[Roachy]

Absolutely nothing, you're right. Carry on.

Right about what? I was sincerely asking by the way.

 

[cleavers]

what does this mean?

Posting from liverpool what do you think ?

 

[kaz7]

I'm putting some blame with the club for getting us to the point where we now have to pray that CAS gets it right, which is by no means assured, or else we face some really bad consequences. I don't care what business you're in, if you let a dispute go far enough that you have to win an appeal or else you lose £150m or whatever in revenue plus suffer massive reputation damage, you probably fucked up somewhere along the way. I agree with all of what you're saying. FFP is garbage, it's unfair, maybe even racist, but I think we messed this up. We should've just handled it the first time around, or settled, or de-escalated it. It's a mess.

We settled in 2014,that was the deal,they have come back,we say we are not guilty,this ia a major business,there is no settling or de-escalting option here,we take a deal which implies a guilt and we zre finished with sponsers and fans and have to start again,we havNO option,we arw not here by choice,we didn't fuck up in 2014,we took the fine and the squad reduction and where did that get us

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

They shouldn't have because the investigation concluded last Autumn, and as has been mentioned numerous times it had to be rushed to get it done before their own deadline.

I know but the sudden change of tone in this saga is baffling. Despite what some have said on here I don't believe for one minute that Sam Lee of the Athletic didn't have good sources for his story saying "City would not be banned." So what changed?

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Which would be inadmissible as City have a right to see all evidence against the club in any disciplinary hearing.

Right, because UEFA have always played by the book.