halfcenturyup
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It seems that some of UEFA’s concerns, eg Fordham, only came about because City wrongly believed, apparently with UEFA’s initial acceptance, that they had passed the 2011/12 requirements and were trying to find ways to meet the 2012/13 ones too. So the changes to the toolkit may well have had a significant impact
Possibly, but the Fordham and CFG IP sales stuck out like a sore thumb, they weren't going to be missed and could have been dismissed as "levers" and, again to be brutally honest, some of the minor AD sponsorships were pretty generous and could have been scaled down by the couple of million needed, even before we consider the disputed inclusion of amortisation in the pre-2010 squad costs that UEFA didn't like. I think it was a fair cop, tbh.
And the settlement was pretty good. Some small inconveniences, a bit of money but closure of the IP, Fordham, fair value and related party issues once and for all (with UEFA at least).