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

[chesterbells]

Fuck off Conn

Agreed 100%, but nevertheless, it’s useful to hear put as clearly as that what the actual issue is all about. It’s of course riddled with hypocrisy, but still interesting to read.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

I think we all secretly know what will happen. CAS will give us a reduced punishment, to appease UEFArce, and the ruling cartel clubs.
I can’t see a ‘fair and independent hearing’ being done, no matter what Sorriano thinks. This will open the gate for PL to try and stick their iron in the fire and get a points reduction.
Maybe our owners should now just dump a billion pound of debt on us, then carry on spending. It’s what the rags seem to be able to do without any scrutiny.

I don't secretly believe that cas will stitch us up, you believe what you want but don't speak for everyone.

 

[chesterbells]

What Conn is saying is true, that is what we are being accused off.

He’s not said that we have done it, but that is what UEFA have done us for

Don’t get me wrong I have issues with him, but we can’t pretend this is not what has happened.

Yes, I appreciate the simple clarity at least

 

[Craig]

What Conn is saying is true, that is what we are being accused off.

He’s not said that we have done it, but that is what UEFA have done us for

Don’t get me wrong I have issues with him, but we can’t pretend this is not what has happened.

Yeah and not a bad analogy unfortunately. Just hope we can prove this didn’t happen.

 

[chesterbells]

What are his opinion on the Liverpool hacking scandal?

Or PSG

 

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

What are his opinion on the Liverpool hacking scandal?

He's too busy working on his FC United apology at the moment

 

[Blue Hefner]

David Conn on the guardian football weekly podcast after taking his magic mushrooms:

Manchester City have NOT been given this penalty because they breached FFP rules in the sense they made too much of a loss or their finances weren't what they should have bee, which obviously is what FFP is all about trying to make clubs live within their means and not make too much of a loss, but this is not what City have been found guilty.......

The issue is they were deceitful and not truthful when they said it was Etihad and not Sheikh Mansour the owner who was clearly paying £57mil.
It was a breach of trust which is always a worse offence than the offence itself...an example (but not a direct paralllel) is it is an offence if you get pulled for speeding you get 3 points on your licence and you might get a fine..but if you lie and you were driving the car when in fact your partner was driving the car well that becomes a very serious offence and you go to prison...so City are not being done for a breach of FFP they are being for a serious breach of trust"

I don’t think ‘breach of trust’ appears anywhere in the UEFA statement. Lack of cooperation does as does ‘serious breaches of the UEFA Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Regulations by overstating its sponsorship revenue in its accounts and in the break-even information submitted to UEFA between 2012 and 2016.’

But nothing about trust

 

[chesterbells]

Yeah and not a bad analogy unfortunately. Just hope we can prove this didn’t happen.

It does smack of ‘goalpost moving’ though doesn’t it? Can’t get us for FFP, well that’s not good enough, so they keep going and going till they find something, anything, to catch us on, or so they think.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

What Conn is saying is true, that is what we are being accused off.

He’s not said that we have done it, but that is what UEFA have done us for

Don’t get me wrong I have issues with him, but we can’t pretend this is not what has happened.

no he said that we were deceitful, so he's stating it as fact and not an accusation. He is beyond redemption.

 

[davek1808]

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It does smack of ‘goalpost moving’ though doesn’t it? Can’t get us for FFP, well that’s not good enough, so they keep going and going till they find something, anything, to catch us on, or so they think.

Spot on mate.