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

Everything the club has achieved in recent years has always come with a caveat/asterisk, so not sure why Blues are upset with the subsequent reporting following the CAS conclusions?

There will NEVER be a coming to Jesus moment for those who have refused to acknowledge City's right to remain competitive, whether that be drawn along partisan lines or particular views from journalists too entrenched in their positions to not take the easy confirmation bias route.

It will be the same if we do ever win the Champions League trophy, there will little beyond recording it actually taking place.

City must/will take the W and move on. We lost plenty of battles but ultimately won this war.

It was an incredibly high-risk strategy which we deployed in terms of relying on CAS, certainly a lot of our admissions fell by the way side and shows how close our feet were to the actual fire.

The £9m fine for non-cooperation is an insignificant number in the grander scheme of things.

We won and can now retain the capacity to keep on winning at the very highest levels of the game.

They have lost and it pains everyone outside of Manchester City that is the reality.

City's victory is bigger than any trophy we have won in our entire history.

They came to bury us. They came to nail the lid shut.

Everything else now is just white noise and sour grapes.
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
Everything the club has achieved in recent years has always come with a caveat/asterisk, so not sure why Blues are upset with the subsequent reporting following the CAS conclusions?

There will NEVER be a coming to Jesus moment for those who have refused to acknowledge City's right to remain competitive, whether that be drawn along partisan lines or particular views from journalists too entrenched in their positions to not take the easy confirmation bias route.

It will be the same if we do ever win the Champions League trophy, there will little beyond recording it actually taking place.

City must/will take the W and move on. We lost plenty of battles but ultimately won this war.

It was an incredibly high-risk strategy which we deployed in terms of relying on CAS, certainly a lot of our admissions fell by the way side and shows how close our feet were to the actual fire.

The £9m fine for non-cooperation is an insignificant number in the grander scheme of things.

We won and can now retain the capacity to keep on winning at the very highest levels of the game.

They have lost and it pains everyone outside of Manchester City that is the reality.

City's victory is bigger than any trophy we have won in our entire history.

They came to bury us. They came to nail the lid shut.

Everything else now is just white noise and sour grapes.
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I think that's bad wording mate, we have every right to be upset with the clear agenda and propeganda that this has been twisted in to.
It's actually worse than it ever has been which is the absolute opposite to what we should have seen, and although I'm not surprised about it I am upset about it.
 
What is clear is that we face an ongoing struggle with the anti-City journalists and media due to a number of factors which we cannot change, nor would wish to.

A number of established clubs will be affected by the CAS decision , and together with City's success on the pitch to-date and potentially in the future , they will be bitterly disappointed and frustrated that we have not been removed from the competitive field. The vitriol we are seeing from the anti-City jounalists and media is the result of them attempting to justify their financial packages from the " established hierarchies " and I don't think that will change any time soon.

Should we manage to win the CL, then the narrative wiil simply ramp up . That would be the most unwelcome result they hope never to have to witness.

I would obviously like to see the jackals brought down by the club, but I don't honestly expect it will happen, and whilst not a terminal victory , I suspect that our owners are happy to just be able to go about their intended business of building and growing their project .
 
I want the club to make a statement and sue some of the liars in the media, along with Parry and Gill, but they won’t. The difference is I am a Mancunian season card holder who is infuriated by the lies and misreporting, whereas the CFG is a multinational corporation looking way beyond idiot and hostile UK journalists. They are seeing a bigger international picture and frustrating as it us for us, the club (CFG) are simply happy to have won and will keep a dignified silence. Just for once it would be nice if they didn’t though.
 
I don’t think a complete conclusion can be drawn, without sight of all the emails, around that time, relating to sponsorship; however as blue as the tint in my specs might be, I can’t help but read the emails without feeling disappointed at what appears to have been proposed.


It doesn’t sit well with me, but then again, we don’t have full context, and I’m sure it’s the sort of financial manipulation that any club (or global company) might consider and discuss, without following through on.


All that said; one of the main things that supports the narrative, that what was alluded to in the emails was not actually carried out, is that the entities and companies involved, in these sponsorship deals, are held to much more stringent financial scrutiny than the likes of the average top level football club.


Where a clearly inept organisation like UEFA scrutinises a club’s finances; the financial auditing that sovereign state owned companies must have to go through (ie ETIHAD), on a global platform, would surely throw up red flags, that would have made any nefarious activity blatant?
 
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