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

[paulchapo]

Or make up tweets. It's a Clarkie.

Thought it might be too good to be true.

 

[worsleyweb]

Mohammed the scouse **** has started a petition. Got a huge 30 signatures

Scouse prick.

 

[nmc]

But do we want this hanging over us for 10 years, the press and sky bringing it up week after week, during every game every press conference.

we are tainted and they'll insinuate it anyway - so we might as well fight it and clear the deck of all the rats

 

[paulchapo]

Mohammed the scouse **** has started a petition. Got a huge 30 signatures

Maybe we can start one to take five European titles they have won off them due to getting English clubs banned for five years. I might be wrong but we might have qualified for Europe one of those years under Peter Reid?

 

[TheCentralScrutinizer]

Scouse prick.

probably never set foot in this country.....

Mohammed the scouse **** has started a petition. Got a huge 30 signatures

dippers calling him an embarrassment(believe it or not)so trying to make out it was 'bait'.....pricks probably never set foot in this country let alone the City of self pity.....

 

[SebastianBlue]

Kicker (German Footy Mag) with their "Question of the week"-voting:

Will City actually be banned from the CL?

Current voting: Nein/No - 61,83% Ja/Yes 38, 17%

Voting is still possible

https://www.kicker.de/6f3fe779-0a4c-4f7f-aedf-f127fa27ecb2/voting

I give it nein years before we even know.

 

[nmc]

What’s the alternative?

Taking a reduced punishment, effectively admitting guilt, continuing to have FFP hinder our development and operations (which will be compounded by a ban of anything length or fine of any amount from this instance), and then looking out for the next UEFA/cartel attack via FFP?

Totally agree. I wouldn't mind betting the G14 are putting the finishing touches on a plan to outlaw the CFG model.

 

[Grassland Blue]

I have always felt FFP was a clear breech of a free market.

Stopping owners investments in their own Clubs is wrong on every level.

It a creates an artificial Market where those who became financially established before FFP have a clear advantage over others. Anti - competitive.

This then has a knock on effect by stiffing the transfer market.Only those Clubs pre - FFP can afford the best players.Those late to the party only get the crumbs from the Table.

Summed up in a nutshell.
The biggest clubs fear true competition.
If City can't break through with our resources, who can?

 

[nmc]

Kicker (German Footy Mag) with their "Question of the week"-voting:

Will City actually be banned from the CL?

Current voting: Nein/No - 61,83% Ja/Yes 38, 17%

Voting is still possible

https://www.kicker.de/6f3fe779-0a4c-4f7f-aedf-f127fa27ecb2/voting

The dippers will be signing up shortly to all vote yes - they like a poll.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

€30M is more than any profit we have made.
A 2 yr ban is worth well over €1/4B in CL revenues.
Commercial revenues would decrease dramatically.

UEFA are trying to financially cripple the club for a decade or more by removing the financial underpinnings of the club that literally allow it to compete. In short, it is BUSINESS FRATRICIDE, and they know it.

it cannot be allowed to stand, EVEN IF WE ARE TECHNICALLY GUILTY OF OVERSTATING A COMMERCIAL PARTNERSHIP. There is no serious person on earth who could possibly believe that the punishment is, in any way, commensurate with the “crime,” even as charged by UEFA. Indeed, the only reason ANYONE would even do such a thing would be to attempt to break into a cartel that has been created to protect themselves from outside companies trying to take a share of the billions in TV and commercial revenues, the bulk of which they have historically kept within a small group of companies to help them grow and stay profitable at the expense of others.

And, against the backdrop of the PSG case, whereby a reported €100M commercial deal was “objectively valued” at €5M, yet UEFA accepted the €100M valuation, it appears corruption WITHIN UEFA is rife, but only available to members of the Executive Board.

Lawyers and a neutral judge (if such a thing exists in the world of multi-billion Euro business, where everyone has a favorite team!) should have a field day with both the genesis and the application of FFP to date.

I’ll worry about City’s future after the last appeal has been exhausted and Sheikh Mansour has walked away.

Until then, I quote Mark Twain, as provided in the Quotations thread:

I’ve had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.