UEFA FFP investigation - CAS decision to be announced Monday, 13th July 9.30am BST

[The_Caddy]

I think it will play out that UEFA investigate, find fuck all wrong, invent something and fine us. The rags, Bayern etc say, "right fuck you, we're forming our own footballing body".

This is the huge problem especially with the PL now involved. If we are penalised & the likes of Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool, Real, Barca & Bayern don't deem it sufficient what happens then? Utd & Liverpool could threaten to pull out of the PL. The big European teams could threaten to pull out of the CL. If these teams aren't competing then the money that the PL & UEFA make would be drastically reduced. I don't see either body willing to take that kind of hit.

 

[Ric]

This is the huge problem especially with the PL now involved. If we are penalised & the likes of Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool, Real, Barca & Bayern don't deem it sufficient what happens then? Utd & Liverpool could threaten to pull out of the PL. The big European teams could threaten to pull out of the CL. If these teams aren't competing then the money that the PL & UEFA make would be drastically reduced. I don't see either body willing to take that kind of hit.

With respect, I don't think that's a likely scenario.

 

[Metalartin]

Nope, I just think when someone says it looks like we've cheated, they have a point. The general attitude on here seems to be (a) that if you even dare suggest such a thing you're some kind of closet rag or at the least an "inferior blue", and (b) that it's impossible that our great club could have stooped to such things and that the evil UEFA in cahoots with god knows who, has made it all up. I think that's bollocks. Yes the rules are unfair, and yes the bastards are out to get us and yes we probably broke the rules to get around them. IMO.

I see what you're saying there but that was nothing to do with my reply to you, was it?

You are free to have your opinion as far as I'm concerned, that if someone says that it looks like we've cheated, then they must have a point. I take that to mean, the amount of journos repeating it, has to mean there is something to it, right?

I simply disagree with you though and have a view that this is gullible, as I said they all have the same source. I also hope you understand you are ignoring the official club statement and by doing so, you're calling the club bullshitters. It's completely possible that these people have carefully misrepresented the information gleaned(notice I'm not denying it's existence, only that it's simply half of the puzzle) and then it's no wonder people(journos and whoever else has chimed in officially) have said "it looks like they have cheated", is it?

Either of us could be right, as you say the rules are bent anyway and we know we've already broke them and been punished for it too. If we have done anything extra, I will say fair enough not all the media who grasped the opportunity to beat City over the head with this, with both hands are complete ****s. If neither UEFA and the PL come up with anything credible, then you will also have to hold your hands up and say you shouldn't have doubted the clubs statement or made everyone else out to be blinkered for not buying it.

 

[80s Shorts]

This is the huge problem especially with the PL now involved. If we are penalised & the likes of Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool, Real, Barca & Bayern don't deem it sufficient what happens then? Utd & Liverpool could threaten to pull out of the PL. The big European teams could threaten to pull out of the CL. If these teams aren't competing then the money that the PL & UEFA make would be drastically reduced. I don't see either body willing to take that kind of hit.

What a crock.

 

[andyhinch]

With respect, I don't think that's a likely scenario.

I would have probably used a more robust response ;-)

 

[Sky Blue]

This is the huge problem especially with the PL now involved. If we are penalised & the likes of Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool, Real, Barca & Bayern don't deem it sufficient what happens then? Utd & Liverpool could threaten to pull out of the PL. The big European teams could threaten to pull out of the CL. If these teams aren't competing then the money that the PL & UEFA make would be drastically reduced. I don't see either body willing to take that kind of hit.

Kinell...

 

[mccity]

Ah. So this is what it feels like to be City...

 

[bluemoon32]

Nope, I just think when someone says it looks like we've cheated, they have a point. The general attitude on here seems to be (a) that if you even dare suggest such a thing you're some kind of closet rag or at the least an "inferior blue", and (b) that it's impossible that our great club could have stooped to such things and that the evil UEFA in cahoots with god knows who, has made it all up. I think that's bollocks. Yes the rules are unfair, and yes the bastards are out to get us and yes we probably broke the rules to get around them. IMO.

Agreed

 

[Len Rum]

This is the huge problem especially with the PL now involved. If we are penalised & the likes of Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool, Real, Barca & Bayern don't deem it sufficient what happens then? Utd & Liverpool could threaten to pull out of the PL. The big European teams could threaten to pull out of the CL. If these teams aren't competing then the money that the PL & UEFA make would be drastically reduced. I don't see either body willing to take that kind of hit.

Sniff.

 

[Chippy_boy]

It's completely possible that these people have carefully misrepresented the information gleaned

It's also possible that something that looks like a duck, walks like duck and quacks like a duck is actually not a duck but a clever penguin in disguise. This is rarely the case however.

Usually things are as they appear.