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

[Elbow beards]

The Daily Fail reporting that we are to be stripped of our 2014 prem title.

REVEALED: Manchester City's Premier League title in 2014 is now UNDER THREAT with potential backdated points deduction - and Raheem Sterling, Kevin De Bruyne and Aymeric Laporte could be sold

• Manchester City are likely to face difficulties should punishments be upheld
• Premier League may backdate points deduction should they find wrongdoing
• This would mean the club could have their 2014 league title removed
• Any ban would wreck finances and mean star players may be forced to leave
• SPECIAL REPORT: How City could fall out of the category of world super clubs

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...r-Citys-Premier-League-title-2014-THREAT.html

The key words there are potential and could. What a pile of steaming dross.

 

[SWP's back]

There is a lot of mixed messages in this thread and on this site. City have a turnover of circa £400m, UEFA have circa £2.7bn, if City are not state owned how is it that the weight/power/wealth of a state comes into play over a court case? Surely they are seperate or they not?

Are you really being that dim?

we aren’t state owned however our owner has a personal fortune of nearly £20bn.

 

[Blue Maverick]

https://www.givemesport.com/1547774...al&utm_campaign=Tribute-Pages-laika-III-1sted
don’t get to giddy Slippy

 

[BlueAnorak]

I see Conn has been listening to Prestwich_Blue yet continuing to be an arsehole. Does he not realise it turns his article on the receipts on it's head?
Honestly I think I would have difficulty controlling my emotions if I met the twat again. His article comparing City's attitude to UEFA to a Brexiteers attitude to the EU the other day was just frankly unbefuckingleavable. Still he's clearly working for the right paper.
I await his expose of the goings on at Moston Pallet United with interest. I think I could be waiting a long time though as he clearly is a grade one twat.

 

[M18CTID]

The Daily Fail reporting that we are to be stripped of our 2014 prem title.

REVEALED: Manchester City's Premier League title in 2014 is now UNDER THREAT with potential backdated points deduction - and Raheem Sterling, Kevin De Bruyne and Aymeric Laporte could be sold

• Manchester City are likely to face difficulties should punishments be upheld
• Premier League may backdate points deduction should they find wrongdoing
• This would mean the club could have their 2014 league title removed
• Any ban would wreck finances and mean star players may be forced to leave
• SPECIAL REPORT: How City could fall out of the category of world super clubs

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...r-Citys-Premier-League-title-2014-THREAT.html

"May", "could", and "may"

 

[SWP's back]

I imagine damages will be paid to MCFC, you know the plc with their name on the charge sheet.

Not sure if your just thick or wumming, I hope it's the latter.

Very few posts to his name and the ones I’ve ready smell a bit.

 

[Coatigan]

Just wanted to add this article I stumbled on on the NY Times website:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/sports/psg-uefa-ffp.html

In summary, Yves Leterme let PSG get away with it, Cunha Rodrigues (UEFA) went ballistic, but Yves Leterme said his objection was too late.

Yves Leterme is behind City's punishment. I would have thought the above action by the same man would set a precedent of how alleged inflated deals are dealt with (ie ignored). I think it totally undermines everything he had said about City. Hopefully, City can use the information the NY Times based this on.

It is fascinating how they can manipulate their own rules to suit whatever agenda they fancy.

We seem to be the one they finally ageeed on.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Regardless of him not referring to us as subhuman scum, the thing that boils my piss is him calling City fans out for defending the club. What does he expect when the club have maintained all along that they've done nothing wrong? Does he think City fans - or fans of any other club in this situation - are going to back an organisation as incompetent and corrupt as UEFA instead? "But City have been found guilty" they say. What, found guilty in a fucking kangaroo court by an organisation that so many of these pricks are more than happy to criticise on all manner of other matters?
Now I'm not saying the club definitely aren't guilty here. They could be bluffing I suppose, but given that they've been steadfast all along in their stance, until UEFA provides hard evidence in the form of a fucking bank statement showing beyond all doubt that it was disguised owner funding then they can get to fuck for me.

Very well said. Anyone who writes those words simply cannot understand what it means to support a football team. Of course, in the absence of any firm evidence to the contrary, City fans’ default position on going to be to defend the club against UEFA. To assume otherwise displays a discernible lack of understanding of the backstory to this last week’s events

 

[JASR]

This is a slightly off-topic link, it’s about Amazon’s rise and it’s ability to leverage the insane amount of data they collect from Kindle, fire stick, ring, Alexa and the marketplace.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/CLQYZENMBI/amazon-data
it’s a long read, but good.

but there’s a comment about halfway through from a EU competition watchdog investigating Amazon’s practises of data use and sidelining partners and rivals:
‘We would never accept in a football match that one team was also judging the game,”

... ironic. A EU competition watchdog investigating a cabal, holding up football as an example of something that would never be allowed to occur to itself.

 

[TheRemainsOfTheDave]

The Daily Fail reporting that we are to be stripped of our 2014 prem title.

REVEALED: Manchester City's Premier League title in 2014 is now UNDER THREAT with potential backdated points deduction - and Raheem Sterling, Kevin De Bruyne and Aymeric Laporte could be sold

• Manchester City are likely to face difficulties should punishments be upheld
• Premier League may backdate points deduction should they find wrongdoing
• This would mean the club could have their 2014 league title removed
• Any ban would wreck finances and mean star players may be forced to leave
• SPECIAL REPORT: How City could fall out of the category of world super clubs

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...r-Citys-Premier-League-title-2014-THREAT.html

What a monstrosity of a website. Designed so the reader only has time to digest the headlines and bullet-point propaganda before the migraine kicks in.