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

[daveoswald]

The one that broke the story surely? ;

The one that broke the story surely? ;)

Good point, looks like the writer/journalist Simon Kuper. He must be pretty confident if he has this down in print in a book. But will it become a big story? Surely it should be.

 

[TheBlueDune]

and there's more

Imagine if this was the other way round.

"Man City tries to pay uefa official to not investigate ffp"

It would be over every back page faster than you could shout "Gotcha"

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

Imagine if this was the other way round.

"Man City tries to pay uefa official to not investigate ffp"

It would be over every back page faster than you could shout "Gotcha"

The screams of outrage from scousers who couldn’t get into a champions league final because of dodgy tickets made by their own fan base had the English press going after corrupt Uefa and the French. This is a whole lot worse if correct and lack of coverage of it stinks.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

A good post as usual from you but I thought the PL investigation was opened long before the CAS verdict - around the same time that UEFA opened theirs, ie March 2019?

Yes. I think I got this wrong. What I was trying to say was that the PL continued their investigation in the face of the CAS decision. They did launch it earlier. But any sensible organisation would have used the CAS decison to stop their own fruitless inquiry. The PL could have got out then with little damage to themselves not least because the PL has different FFP rules to UEFA anyway.

 

[jrb]

Barcelona tried to bribe a UEFA official in 2020 to punish Manchester City and PSG

In a massive revelation made by the Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper, it’s been revealed that a Barcelona official tried to bribe a UEFA counterpart in an attempt to ease the Financial Fair Play rules in favour of the Blaugrana. As relayed in Kuper’s recent book, he says that the UEFA...

barcauniversal.com

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Barcelona tried to bribe a UEFA official in 2020 to punish Manchester City and PSG

In a massive revelation made by the Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper, it’s been revealed that a Barcelona official tried to bribe a UEFA counterpart in an attempt to ease the Financial Fair Play rules in favour of the Blaugrana. As relayed in Kuper’s recent book, he says that the UEFA...

barcauniversal.com

The story doesn't back up the headline. The narrative suggests the motivation of the bribery was to treat Barca leniently rather than to punish City and PSG more heavily. That's a different emphasis to the earlier tweets. It would be interesting to see the precise wording in the book.

 

[halfcenturyup]

Barcelona tried to bribe a UEFA official in 2020 to punish Manchester City and PSG

In a massive revelation made by the Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper, it’s been revealed that a Barcelona official tried to bribe a UEFA counterpart in an attempt to ease the Financial Fair Play rules in favour of the Blaugrana. As relayed in Kuper’s recent book, he says that the UEFA...

barcauniversal.com

That's weird. That article says it was an attempted bribe to ease the FFP.burden on Barcelona, when the book (according to the Athletic) and the headline says it was to punish City.

Edit - what he said up above :)

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

The timing of this is no coincidence, loose lips Masters flirts with the press and a warning shot is fired across his bow, Barca got burnt this time, next time it might well be a PL club or the PL themselves

 

[BlueMoonz1977]

Just got in from work and seen this....

It seems that that the truth (not all of it) is finally coming out and the tactics that have been used to get our club into difficulty are emerging

As some have said, it will be interesting to see the reporting on this because it is huge in terms of what our club has had to put up with

Also the premier league investigation will be one to watch, cos I would bet that certain english clubs would have been pushing for them to run their own investigation to get us sanctioned

 

[Peely01]

We should 100% cancel the friendly and arrange a game with Oldham or Rochdale to give them some much needed cash, not cosying up to these slimy bastards.

We should start a campaign for this support the local teams !