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

[The_Caddy]

Do City have to wait for UEFA to sanction us? Why not go to CAS now on the grounds that we entered into a settlement agreement that UEFA are seeking to re-open.

We have the financial power to turn out UEFA's lights for good. We can come out of all this totally unpunished. The issue then is the fallout.

The big clubs in the PL & Europe will go forward with their Super League plans. If we along with PSG are to be invited we will have to agree on restrictions on transfer budgets, wages & infrastructure. We are hardly likely to agree to this having fought to have restrictions lifted. Our owner has alot of money invested. If we are not competing against the elite it seriously devalues his holding.

We could still be part of the PL & form a new European competition. It's unlikely the revenues would be anywhere near what we currently earn with the PL, CL & commercial income derived from being in these competitions.

 

[aguero93:20]

The big clubs in the PL & Europe will go forward with their Super League plans. If we along with PSG are to be invited we will have to agree on restrictions on transfer budgets, wages & infrastructure.

Any broadcaster or sponsor will insist on ourselves and PSG being involved in that scenario, hence our being amongst the teams named in every super league leak. Whether the G14 like it or not, we've overtaken an awful lot of their members.

 

[The_Caddy]

Any broadcaster or sponsor will insist on ourselves and PSG being involved in that scenario, hence our being amongst the teams named in every super league leak. Whether the G14 like it or not, we've overtaken an awful lot of their members.

It's the other G14 clubs who are pushing the agenda. Oil money is being portrayed as bad for football & in effect bad for business. What broadcasters & sponsors are going to take us over Real, Barca, Bayern, Liverpool & Utd. A super League with no restrictions on what clubs can spend would see the league being won by either us or PSG most years. If the other G14 clubs voted for this it would be like signing their own death warrants.

 

[aguero93:20]

It's the other G14 clubs who are pushing the agenda. Oil money is being portrayed as bad for football & in effect bad for business. What broadcasters & sponsors are going to take us over Real, Barca, Bayern, Liverpool & Utd. A super League with no restrictions on what clubs can spend would see the league being won by either us or PSG most years. If the other G14 clubs voted for this it would be like signing their own death warrants.

Broadcasters and sponsors will want every top team involved, bar none. Taking ourselves and PSG out would cost them money, as we're now two of the most watched and supported clubs in the world, ahead of a lot of the G14 clubs, including Liverpool.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Any broadcaster or sponsor will insist on ourselves and PSG being involved in that scenario, hence our being amongst the teams named in every super league leak. Whether the G14 like it or not, we've overtaken an awful lot of their members.

The document in Der Spiegel naming us as a party to a super league, with signatures against clubs’ names, I don’t believe was a genuine document. The real one was the one involving just 5 or 6 clubs and that was just a threat, in order to secure concessions from UEFA

 

[Roachy]

I think we need to dispense with referring to the G14 crew, especially as PSG was in it and it really no longer exists.Let's focus on the real culprits, UEFA and their little band of merry men.

 

[aguero93:20]

The document in Der Spiegel naming us as a party to a super league, with signatures against clubs’ names, I don’t believe was a genuine document. The real one was the one involving just 5 or 6 clubs and that was just a threat, in order to secure concessions from UEFA

That document aside, we've been involved in discussions on developing the ICC into a bigger tournament and we'd be in any potential organisers thoughts. We're a bigger draw than the likes of Milan, Inter, Dortmund etc in the key markets they'd be looking to develop (not Scandinavia and Ireland).

 

[Marvin]

The document in Der Spiegel naming us as a party to a super league, with signatures against clubs’ names, I don’t believe was a genuine document. The real one was the one involving just 5 or 6 clubs and that was just a threat, in order to secure concessions from UEFA

That's very interesting. If City know, and can show that some of the Der Spiegel documents were forgeries, then that changes the complexion of the case entirely.

 

[nmc]

Add to that Carlos Tevez as well, we bought him out of his 3rd party ownership he was in whilst at the rags for an eye watering amount.

I recall the FA allowing Liverpool to sign Mascherano and United Tevez - both on third Party terms - then outlawed it for everyone else and sanctioned West Ham.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

That's very interesting. If City know, and can show that some of the Der Spiegel documents were forgeries, then that changes the complexion of the case entirely.

The case isn’t about that document though.