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

[BringBackSwales]

If there ever was a time for Pep to sign a new long term deal, this is it!

He won’t though

 

[daztrueblue91]

Isn't this the same case we were already fined for reinvestigated based on the hacked emails and uefa claiming the one about etihads cash investment being unkown originally.

If so we have done fuck all wrong and already paid a fine for our overspend.

As I said we are being blackmailed to conform and cow down to bayern, Reals, rags and laughably AC Milan of the old gaurd.

Fuck em all

Sometimes you have to lose a battle to win the war.

No one is going to have any sympathy with us on this issue. The media campaign has already done the damage and even if the CAS overturns the decision, the reputational damage has been done.

If, and it’s a big if, the CAS reduce UEFA’s ban to one-year then I would personally like the club to take it. There are all sorts of deals to be struck in which you accept the punishment but maintain innocence and a one-year ban could benefit the team in the long-run.

More importantly, it allows the club to change the narrative. Us spending too much and ‘cheating’ is no longer news, we’ve taken our punishment.

Instead the club should draw new battle lines . Go after the very nature of FFP and it’s protectionist scheme. Explain how if we did break the rules, it was to enhance the competition. Hammer home how some clubs have far too much influence with governing bodies.

That is the battle to be won and one with other clubs would support us on.

 

[bewildered]

I don't think there is any possibility of a reduced ban and I'm glad about that.

From what I can gather City's WHOLE defense is, quite correctly, that we have NOT done anything against any rules and are completely innocent of all charges.

The only outcome we can accept from this is total exoneration, no ban, no fine, and quote possibly some serious financial compensation.

We either win it all or we lose it and suffer this ban and fine.

And I for one am all for that position. We have to fight this in full. No more deals, no more taking a pinch.

Shit or bust, us or them, right or wrong.

I believe in the club's bullish stance. I believed the Chairman when he came out defiantly last year.

I believe in City.

The club needs us now more than ever. Full to the end of matches, atmosphere aplenty. A very public show of solidarity every week.

Game. Fucking. On.

Spot on!

I think the UEFA fella was looking for a compromise when he was seen at our CL game recently, it looks to me like they offered us a compromise and we have said shove it. That left them with no option but to go nuclear. I think the club are prepared and want to take FFP down.

Better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep

 

[dublinblue12]

Bin this season off and focus on winning it seen as we can't qualify

 

[George Hannah]

They have a Middle Eastern hub, doesn’t mean they are AD owned

I didn't say they were pinhead I said based there - good grief, the idiots on here

 

[domalino]

Who hired this Rui Pinto hacker guy in the first place? Maybe he has some ties with top clubs in Europe...
Or was he just lying at home bored and thought he is gonna hack dozens of clubs, other organizations etc?

Really hope Mansour has sent cyber security experts t check any emails of top Uefa people and also Mike Riley. And I hope we found stuff worth to share soon. If not we are fucking naive.

He was just a guy working on his own. He was after financial gain, tried to blackmail people in Portugal and then when he realised he was getting caught, released it to the papers as an attempt to be a whistleblower and get some legal protection. He hacked Benfica, Porto, Monaco, City obviously, Doyen Sports and Gestifute which gave him info on hundreds of players and a bunch of clubs he used to try and get €1m.

The whole approach was scattershot and we got caught out unfortunately with embarrassingly bad security.

 

[marco]

any one any idea of when this CAS hearing will take place,will it be fast tracked before the season ends, as it stands there is no ban to serve because its suspended untill the CAS outcome,so there is every possibility we will be taking part next season

 

[Saddleworth2]

Sometimes you have to lose a battle to win the war.

No one is going to have any sympathy with us on this issue. The media campaign has already done the damage and even if the CAS overturns the decision, the reputational damage has been done.

If, and it’s a big if, the CAS reduce UEFA’s ban to one-year then I would personally like the club to take it. There are all sorts of deals to be struck in which you accept the punishment but maintain innocence and a one-year ban could benefit the team in the long-run.

More importantly, it allows the club to change the narrative. Us spending too much and ‘cheating’ is no longer news, we’ve taken our punishment.

Instead the club should draw new battle lines . Go after the very nature of FFP and it’s protectionist scheme. Explain how if we did break the rules, it was to enhance the competition. Hammer home how some clubs have far too much influence with governing bodies.

That is the battle to be won and one with other clubs would support us on.

Yeah, we took our pinch last time and look where it got us.

 

[MillisleBlue]

This is how it feels to be City:

 

[cookster]

Better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep

Not if you're a vegan ;)