CAS judgement: UEFA ban overturned, City exonerated (report out p603)

[Impeccable One]

A broken clock is correct twice a day ;)

Mine is just flashing 99:99 … not sure that’s ever going to be the correct time

 

[Pingu the Penguin]

Football and corruption. I’m SHOCKED

 

[burning blue soul]

Mine is just flashing 99:99 … not sure that’s ever going to be the correct time

That's how long we would end up playing for if we were leading the scouse last weekend!! :/

 

[SilverFox2]

Leeds get an extra £10m if Barcelona miss the original payment date.

A bit like banning a no license driver from driving I suppose or fining a football club for going into administration.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

Now I'm not sure if you're serious or not :(

If you are then that would have been a (sensible) clause from Leed's end surely?

Should have put 10M per week.
Mind you, what's another few tenners when you're already 800M in?

 

[KS55]

Mine is just flashing 99:99 … not sure that’s ever going to be the correct time

There are 100 hours in the day on Zanusia.

 

[Centurions]

But is he going to name either participant, and is there any solid proof of who met and what was said?
Otherwise it could be just the sort of inventive narrative that usually comes in our direction, and he still calls us 'effectively state owned'...

'Effectively state owned' is at least a step up from 'state owned', small steps and all that \o/

 

[KS55]

UEFA GUY: Dont worry about City. The Investigatory chamber is already fixed. Chairman Leterme sits on the Sustainability Board at Bayern, the ex Liverpool chief exec is on it, the financial assessment is being done by a Man U director. Leterme asssures me that they will studiously ignore City’s dossier of evidence and a 2 year ban has already been agreed.
PSG is a bit more tricky as our income is almost all from a deal with Bein Sports whose president is also the President of PSG.
As for Barca, rest easy. You can do whatever you wish, we will never charge any member of the cartel.
BARCA GUY: What about CAS?
UEFA GUY: We have installed a Bayern stooge as one of the arbitrators. He will vote against City on every count. We may need some cash to swing one of the others.
BARCA GUY: Thanks bro. Let me know how much you need and we will draw it from the old G14 account.

 

[slbsn]

Stefan's take (@projectriver) on it 12 months ago is in the podcast link below. If you've not heard it before it's highly recommended if you like the complex and technical! Overall it's the best coverage of this case out there from a City perspective.

i've just re-listened and it answers many of the questions often discussed on here.

Thanks for the comments. My piece for the Mail also explains the rock and a hard place nature of the situation. I wrote this a year ago and it remains valid today...

STEFAN BORSON: Premier League in unenviable spot in City legal battles

Manchester City's seemingly never-ending battle with the football authorities over matters of accounting are so esoteric you wonder who's interested.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[slbsn]

They'll keep the investigation going until they are told by the courts to end it.

That way everyone can say we were guilty, but got off on a technicality.

And no-one has to worry about that pesky evidence stuff.

No court will tell the PL to end the investigation. Not in any court's remit to do so.