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[uwe rosler 28]

Who knows. I think that's possibly some truth in that but I suspect it's more to do with behaving with dignity, which is why Sulaiman Al Fahim was despatched fairly sharpish.

It's about behaving in a business-like fashion rather than being solely about business. It's a desire to keep things low key and not be seen as aggressive or pushy. I also think there was a desire to not draw too much negative attention to Abu Dhabi but that's not really worked has it?

But the Der Spiegel/UEFA stuff was pretty well an existential threat; an attempt to cripple us financially and developmentally. It's time we flexed OUR muscles and knocked one or two of our opponents out of the ring.

Everything I heard at the time of the CAS result was that you don't mess with our owners. If that's so, it's high time they put up.

PB there is an old saying that there is no such thing as bad publicity. Do you think our owners are happy to be in spotlight as long as we are not being found guilty of the accusations accused off? I like to think we have dirt on every single 1 of our rivals ie rags dippers uefa fa premierleague etc and are just waiting for the day when we have to use it to and send shockwaves through football??

 

[Ric]

Stuart Brennan and an excellent article (unless the usual experts find faults I can't see) ago:

What Man City's court defeat over FFP investigation secrecy actually means

The Court of Appeal decided that Manchester City's bid, supported by the Premier League, to stop publication of details of the ongoing investigation should be thrown out. But what does it all mean, and what have we learned?

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Decent synopsis from Brennan.

 

[BlueMonkey79]

As long as we are relevant, and winning major trophies (which we will be for years to come), then the shit will continue to fly at our wonderfully ran club. Our rivals know that on the pitch they can't get near us. So the next step is for all the media sycophants to bring up dirt on our club, to try and de rail our ambitions. We will have no case to answer - AGAIN, and give it a year to 18 months the next shovel of shit will be flung our way in an attempt to smear our name. Yes I agree we need the PL or UEFA to come out with a statement that says MANCHESTER CITY FC HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATED AND WE HAVE FOUND THAT THEY ARE RUN PERFECTLY AND THERE ARE NO FURTHER CASES TO ANSWER... But we all know that will never happen, mainly because of the ex directors, chairmen, mangers of rival clubs that they are all in bed together with!!!!

 

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

Decent synopsis from Brennan.

Yep, v v good. As someone else has suggested, it reads as if he has been briefed.

EDIT: briefed by Stefan lol.... shame Delaney didn't do the same thing with CAS

 

[dadnlad]

Decent synopsis from Brennan.

he credits some lad of here n twitter but name escapes me

 

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

he credits some lad of here n twitter but name escapes me

Just seen it's @slsbn twitter otherwise k/a Stefan and @projectriver on here

 

[WRicko]

How long can they keep investigating but not getting anywhere surely there has to be some rules against that

Do we have any idea when this will all stop or blow up ?

As it is nothing of note has happened I just want to get to us being cleared so we can move on

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

That says to me that the Judge is pointing fingers at the PL for not doing anything to progress the case which meant that if there was any chance of the PL winning the case they would pave brought it prior to their brand being tarnished by City actually winning the bloody thing; twice!

 

[paulchapo]

Who knows. I think that's possibly some truth in that but I suspect it's more to do with behaving with dignity, which is why Sulaiman Al Fahim was despatched fairly sharpish.

It's about behaving in a business-like fashion rather than being solely about business. It's a desire to keep things low key and not be seen as aggressive or pushy. I also think there was a desire to not draw too much negative attention to Abu Dhabi but that's not really worked has it?

But the Der Spiegel/UEFA stuff was pretty well an existential threat; an attempt to cripple us financially and developmentally. It's time we flexed OUR muscles and knocked one or two of our opponents out of the ring.

Everything I heard at the time of the CAS result was that you don't mess with our owners. If that's so, it's high time they put up.

To me as a fan it appears that since 2008 it has been attack after attack, smear after smear. There was some jealousy and mud slinging at Chelsea after their takeover but this is on a different level.

The club may have tried to behave with dignity, won most cases and taken an unfair pinch in another, but now is the time to really go for the kill. If they have anything on our many enemies and rivals, let's start using it and systematically hurting them badly one by one.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

And yet the Premier League briefed the Liverpool computer hack was water under the bridge and not worthy of an investigation...

Wasn’t it brought to the FAs attention some years later after the PL had arbitrated where the outcome was that Liverpool settle with City to ensure there was no taint on the PL brand, which we agreed thinking the PL owed us one?

Was an assumption of mine at the time.