What did the new kit man say?I asked someone I know at the club what the mood was like now that the case has finally started, and he said no-one is even really talking about it, which is hopefully a sign of supreme confidence. There doesn't seem to be any emergency contingency plans being drawn up, or people fearing for their jobs or anything like that, just business as usual. Given what's at stake, namely an existential threat to the club, you'd expect there to be a bit more concern if they truly feared the possibility of a guilty verdict.
It's to do with the Etisalat transaction looked at by UEFA. He arranged payment of 30 million to MCFC on behalf of ADUG in respect of the sponsorship in advance of the receipt of the cash by ADUG from Etisalat. Etisalat later reimbursed ADUG.
Why did ADUG pay instead of Etisalat? Because the new contract with Etisalat stated Etisalat> ADUG> MCFC as the payment method.
Why did they pay in advance? Because the contract hadn't been signed and the parties were operating under a binding HoA. Etisalat, with their regulatory and statutory requirements, couldn't pay until the contract was signed.
It's all in the CAS award.
Feels like this somehow...
As it happens a) I don't think that will work b) won't be our defence. I suspect they will say they did disclose and cooperate fully and hope that they if they have won on the substantive charges, the Panel will be onside. If they have lost on the substantive, it will be largely irrelevant (albeit an aggravating factor potentially)The mitigation will be the same as UEFA. Why should we co-operate with an organisation that has carried out a smear campaign against us? If the PL was professional it would have been rigidly impartial. It is supposed to act for ALL clubs. It has acted in bad faith all the way through. Just last week the official PL Comms Office attacked its own selected panel over the Leicester case. That is totally unethical.
Think I remember reading it was something to do with Spanish law as to why we couldn’t do anything about the toad faced ****.The one person i want to see us sue is tebas, that racist old fuckwit is slanderous at best and corrupt at worst and should be absolutely nowhere near football.
Trial of the century?
Ruination of a great club?
Irrefutable evidence?
Costs running into hundred of millions?
Titles stripped?
Mansour and Abu Dhabi name ruined?
Police banging at the door?
£5k per hour is not enough.
Fall out will have to hit him in some way?
In fairness? He didn’t look to bothered -:)
I wish I had bothered to keep mineThere is a lot of optimism on here and as a FOC and having a ticket stub for York away I'm very nervous about the whole thing.
10 weeks’ time it’ll be pannick at the discoSo its Pannick on the streets of London?
The guys a clown.Kieran Maguire Spouting shite again claimed City were owned by a sovereign wealth fund on BBC FiveLive earlier Not repeated it since I text them asking them to check the facts