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

[Metalartin]

I imagine the penalty will be lessened. However, in my view, the chairman and several execs should then resign for the best of the club.

David Conn, is that you?

 

[George Hannah]

St Samuel jumping ship as well.....so soon
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By MARTIN SAMUEL - SPORT FOR THE DAILY MAIL

"There will not be much sympathy for Manchester City in football. They misled UEFA and its Club Financial Control Body. They inflated figures, deceived over revenue streams, and the size of their punishment, the suspension from European competition, the fine of £25million, is confirmation of the gravity of this offence."

did we really Martin?

 

[Gordyola]

I imagine the penalty will be lessened. However, in my view, the chairman and several execs should then resign for the best of the club.

Good idea admit guilt

 

[The Preacher]

What’s Brian Horton doing these days?

Having a drink on a Monday with his mates in the Church Inn, Cheadle Hulme.

 

[malg]

A senior football exec? In Manchester? Strange how he'd be privvy to this info... oh wait..

The language used there is shocking. This cünt needs a fucking slap.

 

[Bovril]

80's, 90's and up to 2008 was fecking brilliant... bring it on

 

[paulchapo]

Deep down we all knew it would come to this, the club must have too. How many years has this dragged on for now? It feels like forever. UEFA, the media, individuals have all chipped away at us, fined us, bad mouthed us with impunity and we have stayed silent, smiled, "Taken a pinch." It doesn't work. It never has. Bullies have to be confronted and defeated, that is always the way or you stay a victim forever. Now is the time to fight the lot or roll over and die. No more appeasement.

 

[Marvin]

I'm not overly impressed by the club. We've had years and years of tough talk from Khaldoon, so far that has got us absolutely nowhere. No standing up to the relentless and sustained attacks and smears from certain parts of the media, for years now.

It's frustrating to read on here as well that most assume the club are without fault 100%. We have on the one hand threads and threads about the fans being alienated, match days only being catered for tourists, not renewing etc etc and yet with something like this there is a blind faith that the club are absolutely spot on.

That's because the game is not a level playing field. You don't blame the losing team, you blame the guys who bent the table.

 

[moomba]

So on Valentine's day with UEFA showing how much they love us, I just hope that if CAS throw out the case on a technicality as they have with other cases for other clubs in the past that we don't just settle for that. The damage to our reputation will still be there if that's the case and we should seek reparation for this.

I don't want us to win on a technicality.

 

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Hardly surprising given that it's City's are under attack.

However this is the one positive to be taken. Some City fans have grown complacent and Sheikh Mansour was managing city at arms length. Both need to engage again.

God forbid something nice should be said.

Don't disagree entirely with second paragraph.