Think some people are being a bit harsh on city to be honest.
I assume city wanted not just us to succeed but everyone because, if you’re not and idiot, you’d realize that if everyone in the league is successful the league gets more money and everyone is richer. Sadly I don’t think city realized at the time just how contemptible Liverpool are and how bitter, twisted and selfish the Americans are and they probably were being nice to us back then because they did don’t realize how much we’d be upsetting the status quo.
Don’t forget as well, Liverpool never admitted guilt, and the PL weren’t interested in investigating. and our choices boiled down to allowing Liverpool to get away with it and accepting our place below them forever, or kicking off about it only for it to be immediately scrubbed by the media and ignored forever (like the van dicky tapping up, and the murders) but city obviously made a bit of a stink so were offered the money, which they took at the time to placate but also to demonstrate we wouldn’t take things lying down. And I imagine that was the end to any ideas that we’d get along with them in any capacity.
Plus the whole “why didn’t city change the passwords?” Is a whole argument that has no end, why didn’t we? But why didn’t they be honest and not use them, or indeed when they found out they had them, why didn’t they tell city instead of immediately use it to steal data? My theory is they were pushed by their new employees to take a chance and try to log in. Hence they were since promoted and I assume a huge bonus.
The question I have is why, if they are, are city bringing it up now? Could be a play to push the premier league into actually reviewing it, which if they didn’t and we were right would be an absolutely damning indictment of the PL and Liverpool when their integrity is under heavy heavy scrutiny.
As well as this It might not even be city who are leaking/pushing it, there seems to be a few leaks coming out in general, this could just be another in the line, with more the come out.
Or of course it could just be a bit of winding People up by city to prompt them into making yet another mistake in their handling of our case.
One thing I do not think it has any relevance on is how city feel the case is going.