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

[Ted_Bovis]

This is an Exponential thread. Pages expanding quicker than I can read them. Love it.

It has a R value of 0.9 to +1

 

[domalino]

The FINAL judgement was given to both sides at 8am. A PRELIMNARY statement listing the merits of party arguments was given to both parties some time last week. This could be challenged for inaccuracies.
So we knew last week that the main points of the UEFA case had been blown away if not the exact verdict.
In the way it operates, CAS is more of a tribunal than a court of law.

Do we have a source for this or is it ITK information?

 

[SilverFox2]

Did anyone on this Forum seriously believe that our win at a proper court of appeal would be the end of it for City?
They were terrified of our owner and his business acumen. He not only evaded being blackballed but he he beat them at their own game both on and off the field.
Come on we are resented, we are not wanted, we are a target for every rule and refereeing decision every var decision with the rule makers within their secret meetings acting as a carbel within UEFA to plot our eventual downfall.

I was hoping this was their final chance to destroy our owners business plan but I fear the continuation of the struggle now makes war inevitable with them in the driving seat of rule making and effectively match fixing so much to overcome.
Maybe our players and manager can overcome this persistent biased conflict, maybe we can carry our siege mentality consistently? I sincerely hope so because City are my team and I have grown to respect everything our owners do and now fully understand why the g## were frightened of his original investment.

Rant over, CTID.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Biggest irony for me is that “Fair” Financial Play smiles on owners who leach their club whist ostracising one who puts money into the game.

That’s the whole basis for the American sport league closed economic systems, mate. It’s inside the irony of capitalist owners, communist economic system to which I was referring: it’s actually built to prevent all non-approved “competition” (which aren’t really competitors once in the league) and syphon off most of the money to the owners (even when factoring in the astronomical salaries some of the players garner, through real talent, life-long effort, and perseverance).

Again, it’s why the American owners, and those that have studied that system (the directors/owners of the other cartel clubs) so desperately want to install a similar scheme in Europe. They want football to follow that same path (American sport was once not that different to where things were before FFP in football, just at a smaller scale before the major leagues formed).

The one major difference, though, is they want to do it without the fairly equitable revenue sharing. That is the “improvement” on the scheme the likes of the Glazers, FSG, and Kroenke desperately want.

That would give them an even bigger share of the spoils and greater assurance of dominance for years to come.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

He could start with that 4,000+ page thread.

It'd keep at least one of them from posting & cluttering up the board ;)

Assuming he can read .

 

[aguerooooo]

The problem is we are getting wound up by these clowns (me included) I am now taking the Liam Gallagher approach of just smiling and saying pissflaps or exonerated. It’s much less stressful. We did win after all ;)

,normally just tick agree but fuck em

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Let's be clear. Like Tebas, these are words of a declaration of "war" (no not literally obviously before someone makes some silly comment). The club will not do anything but the inference here is as clear as Tebas and it is unacceptable. Simple as that.

Not a surprise given what is already in the public domain about Liverpool. They hacked our computer systems, led a campaign with other clubs to have us banned from Europe and possibly docked points, they relentlessly spread poison in the media about us.
When you add to that their involvement in some of the leaks from the UEFA investigation it paints a picture of a very toxic organisation.
I wonder what else they have been doing which we don't know about.

 

[aguerooooo]

The fact that the 10 clubs put the boot in before CAS ruling sickens me to the core

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Add Mourinho to the list of people who shouldn't be commenting if they know fuck all about the case.

Disgrace is a good word for Peg to use. He knows all about disgrace after being given a suspended jail sentence for tax evasion.

https://news.sky.com/story/jose-mourinho-given-suspended-prison-sentence-for-tax-fraud-11628779

This was a story which got virtually no traction in the British press.
I bet no one asked him about it today even though it is an obvious question to ask of a convicted criminal who has been found guilty of financial fraud himself and yet chooses to lecture our club about FFP.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

The presser is no where near as bad as the comments written.

Glad City won as they’d have been impossible to stop without the extra games in CL.

Bad day for football but hopes FFP stays.

As for the case yesterday I don’t know enough about it.

Is how I took what he said.

I think Klopp knew exactly what he was doing. He knows what his club's owners have been doing as well.