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

[blue oli]

Sometimes two wrongs Can make a right!

Or give Sam the option to delete the wrong one and reshape the correct one after the decision - not that I’m a sceptic at all

 

[BillyShears]

He'd have penned the no ban story purely on City being bullish.

From what I've seen he knows less than an average City fan about anything to do with the case.

He's just a waste of internet.

He may well be a waste of internet but at the same time it seems him tweeting an opinion in reply to a direct question has probably added a dozen pages to this thread. Speaks volumes for me.

We've ended up in a place where as supporter base we see ghosts even where there aren't any!

 

[The Future is Blue]

When you go balls out like the club have, then they better be right. Otherwise I want to see heads rolling left right and centre inside the Etihad. I'll repeat, we should not be here. This should've been dealt with without it being shit or bust. The fact it is now shit or bust means we must win for the sake of our credibility.

The damage that will be done if CAS uphold the UEFA ban won't just go forwards, it'll go backwards too. Taint everything the players, coaches, etc have achieved over the last decade. That's a disgrace and would be on all the powers that be at City.

I certainly don't want "heads to roll" even if CAS rule against us. Khaldoon, Soriano, Cheeky and Pep are some of the most impressive people in charge of any football club and we're lucky to have them. FIFA/UEFA and the G14 F**k 'em!

 

[waspish]

If we get banned Khaldoon end of season interview be interesting

 

[slbsn]

Whatever you think of Sam Lee isn't a bit odd to get exercised by a 12 word reply starting with a (presumably honest) statement that he had "no idea" and including a couple of "guesses" just in case anyone was confused that he was saying he didn't know and it was a guess?

 

[BillyShears]

I certainly don't want "heads to roll" even if CAS rule against us. Khaldoon, Soriano, Cheeky and Pep are some of the most impressive people in charge of any football club and we're lucky to have them. FIFA/UEFA and the G14 F**k 'em!

That's fair enough. I appreciate every one of those guys and their work immensely. No questions.

 

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

Here's something else CAS won't be saying but ought to :
Uefa is not fit to regulate the game. It has been captured by G14 and makes decisions favourable to them. G14 have twisted Uefa round their little finger, both in terms of FFP and the format of their competitions. We are astonished at the difference in treatment between Manchester City and especially PSG and Liverpool who failed FFP with impunity. Yves Leterme is not fit to chair the IC and he would be better employed as a lickspittle to Bayern.
Members of the executive committee should not have been employed by clubs for five years before standing for election.
Until Uefa put their house in order, they are unlikely to get a sympathetic hearing from this court.
Finally, we do not wish ever again to be tendered as serious evidence, extracts from newspapers containing facsimile copies of emails, heavily redacted.

If City's appeal is upheld Ceferin might just be saying all this, in private and behind locked doors, to UEFA.

 

[The Future is Blue]

That's fair enough. I appreciate every one of those guys and their work immensely. No questions.

The analogy I use is that we are the 300 Spartans fighting the barbarian hordes with only a small chance of winning...but against all odds we do in the end! Don't we?

 

[Sir peace frog]

The one about CAS? No slaps from me.

Ordinarily, I'd agree it was more likely CAS would through out the appeal rather than uphold it. But City know this and the stakes are really high so I have to assume they have very strong feelings that they will prevail. They may be wrong. The club has been consistently wrong before on FFP. Remember the 2014 breaches are now known to have been "huge" (UEFA's word in a CAS case).

If City are wrong this time and we go down to a 2 year ban with everything that brings then a lot of what you write in above is wrong because CAS would have said "you did break the laws, you did conceal, you did mislead, you did make false claims about UEFA's independence and integrity, you may have filed false accounts and its not good enough to have a plan if it is in breach of the rules. Send them down"....

throw out,ffs its coming to something when a baggage handler has to pull a lawyer about spelling :)

 

[Sir peace frog]

The analogy I use is that we are the 300 Spartans fighting the barbarian hordes with only a small chance of winning...but against all odds we do in the end! Don't we?

no the spartans got slaughtered

 

[The Future is Blue]

no the spartans got slaughtered

Ha Ha...you get what I mean! David and Goliath?

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

He may well be a waste of internet but at the same time it seems him tweeting an opinion in reply to a direct question has probably added a dozen pages to this thread. Speaks volumes for me.

We've ended up in a place where as supporter base we see ghosts even where there aren't any!

no surprise really, you're pretty much the ghost of Bluemoon past these days.

 

[Sir peace frog]

Ha Ha...you get what I mean! David and Goliath?

david got bummed to death off goliath when he woke up

 

[The Future is Blue]

david got bummed to death off goliath when he woke up

Oh shit....

 

[slbsn]

If we get banned Khaldoon end of season interview be interesting

You mean the Chairman's end of season interview:

Chris Bailey in Palo Alto: "Welcome Chairman, what words do you have for the supporters of the CFG"
[EMBARGOED AMERICAN PERSON]: "Replacing Khaldoon as [Chairman][Chairperson] of this wonderful group is a great honour. Look, I am not close to the details of what went on in 2012-2016 in Manchester City. I know everyone involved was very disappointed by CAS's findings and we disagreed with them. Ultimately, though we all have to move on to the next phase of this soccer and entertainment franchise and put that whole legal saga behind us. We will take the ban in Manchester City, concentrate on those trophies we are in and support the new manager as best we can. There will be a few changes but it is a little too early to talk about those. We will learn the lessons of the past and I can assure you the club is financially secure and strong with or without Champions League football and completely self sustaining. Beyond that our focus really is the wider CFG group and we are excited by our teams in New York, Uruguay and India where we see great opportunities. CFG is, and always has been, much more than Manchester City. City is important but so are all of our clubs - mens and womens."

 

[slbsn]

throw out,ffs its coming to something when a baggage handler has to pull a lawyer about spelling :)

Can I blame autospell? Grrrrr

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

david got bummed to death off goliath when he woke up

I seem to remember my children's illustrated Bible has a splendid picture of David with his sling shot about to fell goliath, but was a little light on pictorial evidence of the subsequent bumming.

 

[Sir peace frog]

Can I blame autospell? Grrrrr

no ,haha

 

[Sir peace frog]

Oh shit....

thats what david said when goliath dropped his undies haha

 

[BillyShears]

You mean the Chairman's end of season interview:

Chris Bailey in Palo Alto: "Welcome Chairman, what words do you have for the supporters of the CFG"
[EMBARGOED AMERICAN PERSON]: "Replacing Khaldoon as [Chairman][Chairperson] of this wonderful group is a great honour. Look, I am not close to the details of what went on in 2012-2016 in Manchester City. I know everyone involved was very disappointed by CAS's findings and we disagreed with them. Ultimately, though we all have to move on to the next phase of this soccer and entertainment franchise and put that whole legal saga behind us. We will take the ban in Manchester City, concentrate on those trophies we are in and support the new manager as best we can. There will be a few changes but it is a little too early to talk about those. We will learn the lessons of the past and I can assure you the club is financially secure and strong with or without Champions League football and completely self sustaining. Beyond that our focus really is the wider CFG group and we are excited by our teams in New York, Uruguay and India where we see great opportunities. CFG is, and always has been much more than Manchester City. City is important but so are all of our clubs - mens and womens."

Hahahaha. You spent FAR too long on that. Very good though.