Just really bad aggregating
“Guardiola’s outburst came a day after City chief executive Ferran Soriano was seen shaking hands with executives at other clubs at a Premier League meeting in London, a disconnect that has gone down very badly among other members of the top flight.”
What's more annoying is the slant on every reaction City has and the hypocrisy in their complaints. "Pep can't say this" "City can't threaten that, that's wrong". Err, yes they can, those clubs have been doing it for years(Pep didn't reference any club by name in his so called "threats" either), even before the Der Spiegel propaganda.
They are acting, like all of those club reps didn't shake hands with our club reps before going behind the clubs back, having secret meetings, writing letters to the PL, to UEFA, to CAS and so on.
Remember what the media said should happen if City had lost the CAS appeal and City continued to complain or allow club reps question the verdict publicly?
What was the response from all of these people when it turned out the shoe was on the other foot? They did everything they said City and it's fans should not be allowed to do and more. They didn't even admit City were right to challenge UEFA's verdict which should have been the minimum requirement. Even CAS got a tarnished reputation in the sour grapes aftermath.
UEFA's own rulebook says everything has to be done in accordance with EU Law. Most of these people were referencing facts like that in the rulebook themselves, as a justification for blocking City's path to CAS. It was found that UEFA did not meet their own criteria, they would indeed have been breaking their own rules by charging City. City not proving their innocence is less relevant than UEFA not having enough behind their claims to justify City using all their evidence. UEFA having no proof is not a technicality at all, it shows UEFA were misleading everyone on what they had, it raises questions about how "independent" their CFCB truly is too.
