PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[halfcenturyup]

That’s what I thought.

Great article btw. I hope it gains a wider audience than just City fans.

Question: With regard to the emails. How did City explain to CAS the one that seemed to suggest that that a portion of a sponsor’s money came from ADUG? If I’ve remembered that correctly. It’s the one piece of “evidence” that I thought would be difficult to explain. Time barred?

These were the facts according to CAS:


And this was the club's submissions:

UEFA's submission was basically, yeah but it looks a bit fishy (my non-legal assessment).

CAS didn't comment on the merits (time-barred), but did hear evidence from the contract lawyer and a SVP of Etisalat:

 

[halfcenturyup]

We wont get anything

Can both parties not agree to release the findings?

I am thinking when all this is done and dusted, and we are found guilty of non-cooperation (hopefully just that) then the PL is going to need some help manage its PR. What better way than for the club to "partner" with the PL and say UEFA, and then the PL, have both been played like two-bit fiddles this last decade by organisations that wanted to damage the club's ability to compete. We know who they are. Khaldoon could really go to town on these "organisations" without specifically naming them, whilst giving support to UEFA and the PL, cementing relationships with both and removing credibility from any question that whatever the findings, we are still guilty of something, somewhere.

If I was dreaming, i could imagine we would take action against the first media outlet who did raise that question, but a man can dream, can't he?

 

[Ric]

Can both parties not agree to release the findings?

I think Stefan was referring to leaks. The findings themselves, as at CAS, will surely be released.

 

[halfcenturyup]

I think Stefan was referring to leaks. The findings themselves, as at CAS, will surely be released.

Oh right. Stupid me :)

 

[remember arthur mann]

It’s on YT because anyone can put anything and any old shite up there. It’s a lot more complex to get a TV program commissioned. I know it may seem like there’s a lot of utter shite on TV too but it’s somewhat more regulated for quality - from what cameras are used to the reason for the commission.

YT is easy. Anybody can upload a ‘documentary’ there.

 

[manimanc]

The YouTube documentary got a mention on ESPNFC by Gab Marcotti.
He wasn’t particularly interested in the “new” allegations but was more focused on who paid to make the documentary which was refreshing.

I’m paraphrasing but he basically said who hates Manchester City enough to fund this film…

I think we’d all like to know that

I like Marcotti, he never seems to follow the bitter agenda against us and has a balanced view. I quite like the Gabs and Juls podcast they do.

 

[M18CTID]

Pretty sure that it was said during that time that the club only knew 10 minutes or something in advance.

Nah, not a chance it was only 10 minutes mate. There were rumours doing the rounds in the days leading up to the announcement that it had gone our way. I seem to recall that Pep was rather smug in one particular post-match interview. Ian Cheeseman tweeted a few days before that he'd heard it was positive news. And someone who runs one of the biggest supporters club branches was gobbing off that we'd won the case to all and sundry down the pub a couple of nights before it was announced.

 

[give it to gordon]

I got as far as Prick Harris saying that:

"the current City squad is worth €1.067 billion making them the most expensively assembled squad in the history of global football."

I might watch it sometime but it's a clear hatchet job on us.

That just shows how much Pep and his staff have improved the players. City havent spent that it's what they are worth on the transfer market

 

[the talisman]

I like Marcotti, he never seems to follow the bitter agenda against us and has a balanced view. I quite like the Gabs and Juls podcast they do.

Yeah me too. I watch the studio program as well as the podcast.
They just don’t seem to have the bias of the English media, maybe because they are based in the States

 

[halfcenturyup]

That just shows how much Pep and his staff have improved the players. City havent spent that it's what they are worth on the transfer market

It also shows how much if a duplicitous twat Harris is as he should know, as a financial "expert", the difference. Or maybe he doesn't.