Long time lurker,very occasional poster. I read this thread once or twice a week for updates ( OK hourly but don't tell my wife....) and there is a question I haven't seen an answer to. Might of missed it.
Someone has put aside a number of weeks for this 'case' . Does that mean someone has read everything and decided there is a case to answer or is there a possibility that after a couple of days it is decided there is no case to answer and they all go home ?
I think we should be clear that there Is a case to answer. That is one thing Jordan has always got right. The leaked emails on their own seem to show that things may not have been as they should have been. So there is a case to answer. CAS said so and the PL panel will say so.
By the way, some of those emails are so carelessly written using terms and explanations that should never have been, that they reflect pretty badly on the people who wrote them, even if what is alleged never happened. I hope after being hacked, twice, the senior people at the club are more careful about what they say and how they say it these days.
Anyway, to your point, there is a case to be answered and it will be answered by the club putting the emails into context and showing what really happened, with witness statements from people who actually made it happen rather than the PL's interpretation of what they think may have happened. Much like at CAS.
If you want some comfort, think of the appeal at CAS. The club appealed 4 years of charges for Etihad and 2 years of charges for Etisalat. 6 charges (in PL language) took three days. On that basis, 120 charges should take 20 times as long, or 60 days, or 12 weeks. That is a pretty simplistic analysis, of course, but the length of time being put aside is more a consequence of the PL making this all so complicated than a real indication of the weight of each side's evidence. Imho.
As usual, may all be bollocks.
