feedmpenzaandhewillscore
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The thing is that just one year of the Etihad sponsorship (2012/13) was time-barred. The rest was fully examined and cleared.
Of course, City's hierarchy could have been extremely cunning and worked out that if they stuffed all the dodgy stuff into that year, knowing they'd be charged 7 years later and that this year would be time-barred, they'd be OK. But somehow I doubt it.
And Etisalat was time-barred but CAS still looked at it and pronounced themselves satisfied that it was a legitimate arrangement.
Delaney is sinfully stupid, but we knew that anyway.
Was there not witness statements from City and Etisalat execs at CAS, if what they said under oath was total bollocks are they not committing the very serious act of perjury?
Fordham image rights was still going well after the agreement with Uefa and wouldn’t have been time barred. Why did they not bother with it but the Premier League has done?
Mancini stated last year that no one was had a conversation with him regarding how he was paid by the club. This whole investigation was opened up in February 2020, why in over three years did no one go straight to source to investigate?