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

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Could we counter sue the PL for damaging our reputation?
To have a court case ruling on decisions and dealing with their investigations for over 4 years without any charge has resulted in unprecedented criticism and multitudes of negative press articles inferring guilt for breaching FFP and alluding owner sponsorship etc.
It's an utter liberty they've been taking which for evidence already ruled on by CAS as being unsupported in any way is just plain wrong and unjust in my opinion.

Not really, unless we move to the US.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

The proposed sale of Liverpool FC has led journalists to reveal that John Henry spent more time on “Project Big Picture” than running LFC. That was the failed attempt to resign the Prem and EFL.

Rick Parry also did much of the donkey work on this failed project. It sounds a bit like how UEFA brought FFP charges against City.

All roads lead to Parry.

 

[CC1]

Sorry - this is a very simplistic question & probably impossible to answer but based on all the above posts on time limitations etc - what’s the date by which the investigation has to finish because it’s run out of time?

 

[Paladin]

Sorry - this is a very simplistic question & probably impossible to answer but based on all the above posts on time limitations etc - what’s the date by which the investigation has to finish because it’s run out of time?

It would depend on the date of any wrongdoing, found by their investigation. I believe they are already barred from bringing charges for any alleged misconduct before November 2016. The longer they take to find anything, the less chance they have of bringing a case against us, because we have been very clean for many years now. If there was any wrongdoing by us, I suspect it was well before 2016.

This is unless the PL regulations can somehow circumvent the Limitation Act 1980, maybe with their own version of limitation.

 

[waspish]

It would depend on the date of any wrongdoing, found by their investigation. I believe they are already barred from bringing charges for any alleged misconduct before November 2016. The longer they take to find anything, the less chance they have of bringing a case against us, because we have been very clean for many years now. If there was any wrongdoing by us, I suspect it was well before 2016.

This is unless the PL regulations can somehow circumvent the Limitation Act 1980, maybe with their own version of limitation.

Oh yeah wouldn’t put it past them! City being still investigated in 2050

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Meanwhile our pal Pinto is back in court still facing 90 charges and apparently (according to Marca) has admitted extortion (although it may be a dodgy translation)

Rui Pinto, the Robin Hood of soccer, acknowledges having extorted with Football Leaks

The case known as 'Football Leaks' has been in court for some time. The publication as a result of obtaining information about players' contracts without authorisation is currently

www.marca.com

And in yesterday's evidence Pinto claims he planned it all in the pub with his mates. Not very convincing.

Football Leaks: Rui Pinto says that “first illegitimate accesses” were not his and that the idea for the blog was born between “mugs of beer” - Archysport

“The first accesses were not made by me, but the information was shared”, declared this Monday Rui Pinto, at the beginning of his testimony in the Football Leaks case. The defendant contextualized before Judge Margarida Alves how the Football Leaks blog was born, saying that it was born from a...

www.archysport.com

Of course the English media and City-haters who built Pinto up into some sort of hero over the fabricated Der Spiegl emails are ignoring the ongoing case because it doesn't suit their dishonest narrative. The BBC have not run a single line since the online team produced a big preview article of the trial two years ago which was biased (and overtly racist) and linked City to the case (even though we apparently don't feature in any of the charges)

Rui Pinto Football Leaks trial starts in Portugal

Rui Pinto says he is a whistleblower not a hacker and acted to expose corruption in football.

www.bbc.co.uk

This article, which is still on the BBC website, includes the totally false and unattributed phrase: "The data showed how wealthy Gulf Arab individuals and organisations now exercise strong influence over some top European clubs, as well as the role of offshore tax havens in football transactions."

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

It would depend on the date of any wrongdoing, found by their investigation. I believe they are already barred from bringing charges for any alleged misconduct before November 2016. The longer they take to find anything, the less chance they have of bringing a case against us, because we have been very clean for many years now. If there was any wrongdoing by us, I suspect it was well before 2016.

This is unless the PL regulations can somehow circumvent the Limitation Act 1980, maybe with their own version of limitation.

We've seen with our own eyes what they've done to some games with their application of VAR, so . . . . . . . . . . . . . A little rule change here, another one there, backdated to 1879, and we're buggered.

 

[laserblue]

They will let it run for the 6 years say they ran out of time and we will 'get off' on the time bound technicality.

IIRC that was one of the reasons given for not taking the case of Liverpool hacking City's scouting database any further. The other was that Liverpool had paid City a million quid despite Liverpool never admitting any wrongdoing.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Re the bolded part - guilty as charged! ;)

Thanks for the kind words. My situation hasn't changed but I've started to cope with it a bit better. My mum will need help at some point soon as she's in her late eighties, but I currently have a long video call every day. She's in decent spirits, very active and keeping pretty healthy.

Good to hear mate!

 

[CC1]

It would depend on the date of any wrongdoing, found by their investigation. I believe they are already barred from bringing charges for any alleged misconduct before November 2016. The longer they take to find anything, the less chance they have of bringing a case against us, because we have been very clean for many years now. If there was any wrongdoing by us, I suspect it was well before 2016.

This is unless the PL regulations can somehow circumvent the Limitation Act 1980, maybe with their own version of limitation.

Cheers. I’m just looking forward to the day all slurs are ended