OB1
Well-Known Member
From my quick reading, which I haven't finished, CAS declared that anything that happened prior to 2014 was time-barred but not anything after. So they could examine the sponsorship revenues that were paid after 2014 and found those were properly paid and weren't disguised equity funding. That clearly implies that had the other payments not been time-barred, they would also have been found to be properly paid.
Therefore anyone claiming we got off "on a technicality" is completely wrong.
I've had a quick scan.
Bottom line, there's no evidence that City disguised equity funding as sponsorship.
CAS say UEFA might have reached the same conclusion if they had seen all the evidence that was presented by City at the appeal but UEFA didn't request that info - so the fuckers were not thorough enough and City IMO decided to fuck UEFA at CAS.