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

[King KdB of Belgium]

bobmcfc It is now the time to get our lawyers busy. Let them start with Senor Tebas, followed by those at Bayern Munich. Then all those in this country from those clubs who allowed their managers to slander us, down to the papers who printed libellous statements about us.

Nothing will change unless the club starts to issue some summons for slander/libellous statements. If the club continues to do nothing about this. They will just continue to carry on saying and printing anything that paints us in a bad light.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

bobmcfc It is now the time to get our lawyers busy. Let them start with Senor Tebas, followed by those at Bayern Munich. Then all those in this country from those clubs who allowed their managers to slander us, down to the papers who printed libellous statements about us.

Nothing will change unless the club starts to issue some summons for slander/libellous statements. If the club continues to do nothing about this. They will just continue to carry on saying and printing anything that paints us in a bad light.

You don’t issue a summons for a civil claim.

 

[Gazza]

You don’t issue a summons for a civil claim.

Not even to sue for £50 million?

 

[SilverFox2]

Maybe the intention all along was to damage our reputation in the eyes of fans and other clubs. Sometimes the mere accusation is enough to do the damage

Exactly this. The facts never matter when a propaganda program is in full swing.
The flat earth society will continue despite being shown to be wrong when interpreting their own rules.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Not even to sue for £50 million?

I'd be willing to do it if someone paid me 50M. Is that close enough?

 

[M18CTID]

I've said all along that the parties pushing this had little to lose. If the CFCB win then it's job done for them. If they lose, as happened, then there's little or no comeback for them. They're like the primary school bully who runs off and hides behind their mum when you challenge them.

Hopefully there'll be a vacancy on the ECA board when Nasser al Khelaifi does some time.

Yep. It was a free swing for them. I would add, however, that some of those parties are as thick as fucking pig shit where this case is concerned and bet their house that CAS would rule against us, so when the verdict came out it came as a huge shock to them. It’s one thing seeing bitter opposition football fans believing the shite they read in the German equivalent of The Sun - that goes with the territory and sums up football tribalism - but for those holding key positions in the game to do so is as laughable as it gets.

 

[bobmcfc]

Exactly this. The facts never matter when a propaganda program is in full swing.
The flat earth society will continue despite being shown to be wrong when interpreting their own rules.

They charged us with no tangible evidence other than doctored emails. I know everything we sent in our defens(C)e wasn’t even looked at by UEFA and dismissed, so we basically said OK, we’ll take everything to appeal because you won’t hear us out.
UEFA knew that They had nothing and hardly countered us at CAS probably because they knew it would be overturned. The sole purpose was to sully our name. Damage us on and off the pitch

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

They charged us with no tangible evidence other than doctored emails. I know everything we sent in our defense wasn’t even looked at by UEFA and dismissed, so we basically said OK, we’ll take everything to appeal because you won’t hear us out.
UEFA knew that They had nothing and hardly countered us at CAS probably because they knew it would be overturned. The sole purpose what to sully our name. Damage us on and off the pitch

Defence.

 

[sincity]

Northcroft won't have written the headline, but the first paragraph has a rather different note:

"Bayern Munich want Uefa to redouble its efforts to enforce Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations but insist that there is “no agenda” on their part against Manchester City.
Oliver Kahn, the former Bayern goalkeeper who joined the club’s executive board in January and will replace Karl-Heinz Rummenigge as its chief executive next year, said that football needs to take the regulation of clubs’ spending “more seriously”. Kahn added, however, that Bayern’s objective is to create more equality between teams rather than punish those benefitting from huge owner investment like City and Paris Saint-Germain."

CAS did pretty much throw it out for those reasons, didn't it?

Is this the same article as the one in Goal.com?
https://www.goal.com/en-cm/news/bay...y-overturn-uefa-ban/rvzxmzfwgn5313dwbi50hfb5h

"Pep Guardiola’s side had expected to sit out the next two years of competition but were found to have exploited a loophole in UEFA’s regulations that meant this aspect of their suspension was annulled, while a €30 million (£27m/$35m) fine was reduced to €10m (£9m/$11m)."

I don't get it? What loophole did we exploit??
Getting exonerated by CAS is not a "loophole", I would have thought..

 

[bobmcfc]

Defence.

Blame my autocorrect for the S lol