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

[Nascent Blues]

Ha ha ha :-)

I'd take a draw right now!

 

[LesBleuMiserable]

I think the club did right to not say much, as we are still waiting for CAS details.

What if details come out that time-barred financial transfers were indeed more than questionable?
Media summary will be "guilty, time-barred, technicality, City has ruined football".

It would look even worse if we'd come out Monday with a mouthy statement.
So let's wait.

I have a feeling we will never leave this mess clean and acquitted. We are branded.

All we could do is explain our situation back then in detail, maybe admit mistakes but also put full light on the other players of the game that brought football in the situation it is today.
We are only a small part of the fuckin story.

they can say the hell they want, I’ll be shouting CAS judgement is we are innocent!

 

[marco]

I can only assume that our owners do not believe the media campaign against us is going to fundamentally damage their long term investment if we keep winning on the pitch

TBH the word damage has been used a lot by Pep, were only 3 days from the CAS verdict,let the dust settle,let the jurno's 'damage' us and the writ will be served once thats done all the others will crawl back under their rocks

 

[SidJames]

I can only assume that our owners do not believe the media campaign against us is going to fundamentally damage their long term investment if we keep winning on the pitch

Dont they say in Hollywood there is no such thing as bad publicity ?

We are being talked about daily.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Please don't tell me that it isn't important what the world thinks when we have a media thread that's 3000 pages long every season, people posting videos of every journalist/pundit who aggrieves them and 2 seperate threads for media coverage and opposition fan reactions.

An organised response would have had a statement that framed the decision the way City want it. The same way UEFA put all the focus on the time-bar. It would have had comments from people like Soriano, who commented on it previously, saying he was vindicated.

Or at the very least they could have put some sort of emphasis on the media waiting to hear the full award.

I'm not a PR expert, anymore than I'm a Formula 1 engineer but I can still recognise a car crash when I see one.

You will never recapture the narrative after this long anyway.

Well said. For years people have said we should just igore the bile which has been spread. The biased attitudes towards City didn't happen overnight. Our reputation has been trashed and we need to be more proactive with the people doing it. It was pressure from the media (driven by our commercial rivals) which ended up with us being charged. The way we are reported and perceived is crucial to our reputation. Whatever the judgement says we should hold a media briefing and present our irrefutable proof and dismantle the fake media narrative line by line. We should communicate this directly to every single person on our fans' database, all our partners, all our, investors, and everyone else. Being on the backfoot for 10 years has got us nowhere.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

Nah UEFA are the fools!

I pity them.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Dont they say in Hollywood there is no such thing as bad publicity ?

We are being talked about daily.

Try telling that to Jeffrey Epstein.

 

[Blueknows]

Samuels sums it up..
"The fine was for refusing to comply with UEFA's initial investigation — the ban was for falsifying accounts. It's like being charged with murder, and also resisting arrest. A person could be found not guilty of murder, but guilty of resisting arrest."

 

[SidJames]

Try telling that to Jeffrey Epstein.

Mate that is class.

Bwhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

 

[Brightwell Bros.]

lmao, is this the lawyer Uefa sent? Galaxy brain stuff.