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

[Chappie]

MARVIN
Get a grip you're a grown man
You're last few posts are doing, what are enemies are trying to do.
They are trying to destabilise and divide us, don't fall for it.
Don't feed them with weaknesses, they will thrive on it.
Let's see what they've got and if they come up with anything, we will deal with it.
We've had worse things than this happen to us if you've been watching for 40 years
Feck them all because we ain't going away

 

[supercity88]

I know there are several people who know exactly what we are accused of and exactly what our position is.

Is it possible to get a page link in the thread title so someone like me can see the best summary?

From reading about this previously I believe that UEFA changed the goal posts on FFP which meant we were punished and that whatever City did (relating to these hacked emails) wouldn't impact on the fact we missed the target and were fined.

So I guess false reporting could carry additional punishment, if it is true, but that is all they can get us for. Surely the hacked emails are inadmissable anyway? I would imagine the club would continue to work with UEFA even if it meant another fine. But anything like a ban from Europe would be fought through the courts and with our legal might, UEFA would end up embarrassed.

 

[The Riot Club]

The game is up. Doesn't matter what we do now.

England's three biggest football club fanbases will be mobilised against us with a barrage of claims. They will be whipped up and cajoled by key people in the media. UEFA and the Premier League have broken. We'll be left with an emasculated football club when this done. That is how politics works in this country now. Now you know what it is like to be a 2nd class citizen in this country.

The facts do not matter. This is the era of social media. We have been set up as the guilty party and they are cleaning up the game. In reality it is the other way around.

I'm not giving up of course. I've endured worse as a City fan. But I know what is coming.

I just hope that when they are finished with us I still have a football club left to support. It would not surprise me at all that our officials etc will be disqualified from football. To make this work they have to drag us through the mud and they will. The process started a decade ago, but almost overnight we were hijacked and I never saw it coming.

I'm like you all. I was there at all our darkest and greatest moments over the last 40 years but it feels like its coming to an end. How can we go on beyond this when the game will no longer feel fair, and yet I feel we are obliged to otherwise we are broken and the past meant nothing. It does. Dickov scoring that goal, it meant something.

Apologies for posting this. I've just let the nonsense flow but I am sickened with the football authorities.

Of course I am going to the game later today as I always have. And I always will. I don't know how I will feel after the game. Hopefully my determination will be doubled and my love for City will be redoubled, but this morning I am tired.

The worst thing about this all is that we will be painted as the villain when in truth Manchester city represent the best in football in so many ways but how do you deal with these preachers in the press and this social media world we live in. The witch-hunt nears its conclusion. The witch is being dragged to the water. It does not give up on life as it is dragged to the water but it feels very angry indeed.

We are owned by an Arab. Now you are all metaphorically Arab and you will feel injustice. it is about to be served.

Apologies for the heart-felt rant. I'm truly angry and don't know what to do as the wolves close in. Hopefully my team today will bite back, but I fear it's temporary.

Something has to be done boys. I don't know what it is but we can't allow this club of ours that we have loved all our lives to be treated like this. What is to be Done?

Jesus, I wouldn't want to take you to war mate! Chin up, fuck those corrupt bastards and the sensationalist bollocks peddled by the media to sell their shit. We have done no wrong, we'll blow these corrupt fuckers away and come out even stronger for it. It's the last throes of an organisation that tried and failed to stop us and will fail again. Rags, UEFA, media, all corrupt and biased to the core. This will out in courts with a lot more power than some jumped up little tossers in football boardrooms still licking Ferguson and Platini's arses. City will win this and make these tossers look very, very foolish.

 

[Franknorgrovesnephew]

Have faith in our owners boys and girls that's the simple answer.

 

[Skip Donoghue]

The game is up. Doesn't matter what we do now.

England's three biggest football club fanbases will be mobilised against us with a barrage of claims. They will be whipped up and cajoled by key people in the media. UEFA and the Premier League have broken. We'll be left with an emasculated football club when this done. That is how politics works in this country now. Now you know what it is like to be a 2nd class citizen in this country.

The facts do not matter. This is the era of social media. We have been set up as the guilty party and they are cleaning up the game. In reality it is the other way around.

I'm not giving up of course. I've endured worse as a City fan. But I know what is coming.

I just hope that when they are finished with us I still have a football club left to support. It would not surprise me at all that our officials etc will be disqualified from football. To make this work they have to drag us through the mud and they will. The process started a decade ago, but almost overnight we were hijacked and I never saw it coming.

I'm like you all. I was there at all our darkest and greatest moments over the last 40 years but it feels like its coming to an end. How can we go on beyond this when the game will no longer feel fair, and yet I feel we are obliged to otherwise we are broken and the past meant nothing. It does. Dickov scoring that goal, it meant something.

Apologies for posting this. I've just let the nonsense flow but I am sickened with the football authorities.

Of course I am going to the game later today as I always have. And I always will. I don't know how I will feel after the game. Hopefully my determination will be doubled and my love for City will be redoubled, but this morning I am tired.

The worst thing about this all is that we will be painted as the villain when in truth Manchester city represent the best in football in so many ways but how do you deal with these preachers in the press and this social media world we live in. The witch-hunt nears its conclusion. The witch is being dragged to the water. It does not give up on life as it is dragged to the water but it feels very angry indeed.

We are owned by an Arab. Now you are all metaphorically Arab and you will feel injustice. it is about to be served.

Apologies for the heart-felt rant. I'm truly angry and don't know what to do as the wolves close in. Hopefully my team today will bite back, but I fear it's temporary.

Something has to be done boys. I don't know what it is but we can't allow this club of ours that we have loved all our lives to be treated like this. What is to be Done?

Come on get a fucking grip man....

 

[Ric]

Blimey, I’m glad the club aren’t going to roll over as easily as some of our fans!

 

[worsleyweb]

Blimey, I’m glad the club aren’t going to roll over as easily as some of our fans!

Madness isn’t it! The end of nigh. I personally am just looking forward to a few pints today and a good game and 3 points.

 

[Marvin]

MARVIN
Get a grip you're a grown man
You're last few posts are doing, what are enemies are trying to do.
They are trying to destabilise and divide us, don't fall for it.
Don't feed them with weaknesses, they will thrive on it.
Let's see what they've got and if they come up with anything, we will deal with it.
We've had worse things than this happen to us if you've been watching for 40 years
Feck them all coz we ain't going away

I know we are not going away but we are going to take a pummelling.

 

[schfc6]

Too much at our door now and politics is very powerful. We are owned by a wealthy Arab who is viewed by he world as a Despot. That is the background. They will just make it up as they go along. This has been years in the planning but no one knew how the end-game would happen.

You see, I take a totally different view.

What if they do get their way? If they did elimate the strongest contender out there.

Where’s the competition? You need competition for the game to thrive.

UEFA have to act, that tin pot disgraced rag have made it impossible for them not to.
But European football is on its knees, it’s desperately fighting against a World league. Will it want to fight us?

Now come on Marv, turn that frown upside down and have trust in the club. They feel confident this is an opportunity to clear our name. I do too. I think we’ll be cleared of the allegations, weather that’s UEFA covering their arses, UEFA shit scared of the fight or we’ve done nothing wrong. I’m not that arsed.

Yes, they’ll be desperate nutters on line saying we’ve bribed UEFA, or we’ve bought this or that. But who cares.

For my money, if UEFA wanted to take us out, they’d have done it in 2014, it would have been so much easier than now.
We’re too big now. Too strong, too important to advertising revenues. We have star players, thee stellar manager. If we win the thing this year. It will be impossible to ban us.

The time to stop us has passed in my opinion.
They need to embrace us, perhaps paint us as the baddies. Every story needs a baddy.
It’s all about revenues. We are now vital to revenues.

 

[Newman Noggs]

Maybe I'm just a contrary bugger but all this just makes me prouder of the club.

The thought of being a supporter of clubs like Liverpool, United or Arsenal is anathema to me. Herd mentality, piggy-backing vicarious success as compensation for personal inadequacy, yuk !

And the fact that we've given them nightmares for ten years, the Aguero m
oment, the greatest team England has ever seen, a style of play never witnessed before in English football revolutionising the game, if I was a ****, I'd hate it too. But, fuck me, I'm enjoying every second of it.