If I was them I would be doing exactly the same. It's a juicy story, perfect for filling column inches between games. It's what they do for a living so what do you expect? No one can get near us on the pitch, and they have tried every other stick to beat us with and failed, so the emergence of this story is lapped up, ingested, digested and regurgitated, to the delight of the non-City footballing world.
It was about time someone stood up to UEFA and demonstrated that their cosy cartel could be broken up by a club with ambition and resources. Shook 'em up and made things more interesting. They hate it and I'm loving it. We even boo their anthem. We won't be bullied.
As for what happens next to keep the story running? The ball is in UEFA's court. Will they reopen the case? No because it would expose the shaky foundations of FFP. UEFA would have been as satisfied as City with the outcome of the original investigation - it worked for both sides. Was there a bit of shady dealing going on? - probably, remember this is Platini's UEFA we are talking about, not the church harvest festival committee. We played their game, it was a score draw, and we moved on.
So, expect muck raking by the usual journalistic suspects over the next few days, allow them their day in the sun and then wait for the silence that follows when the next big story comes along.
Politics in sport is a murky world and things are never quite as they seem. "Owner invests money in football club" is not quite the attention-grabbing headline they want, so when something like this comes along, it gets exploited and inflated. It's the world we live in. We are big boys now so we deal with it.
