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

[BringBackSwales]

It's shocking when you think that those leagues in Germany and Italy used to be competitive and great to watch. UEFA has done everything it can to preserve the status of Bayern and Juve. The bizarre thing in Germany is that most fans hate Bayern but they hate the new money clubs like Leipzig and Wolfsburg even more. If one of the new clubs could hole Bayern under the water (like we did to the Rags) it would open the door for lots of other contenders. Football fans are their own worst enemies sometimes. We should really form an allliance with Chelsea to take on the establishment here but it will never happen. Imagine if the progressive clubs with money like us, Chelsea, Everton, Wolves perhaps joined forces to force change.

Chelsea and their owner are right up uefas arses

 

[kaz7]

I cant deny that all this has upset me quite a bit last few days.
I lost my dad last year and still struggling to come to terms with it. He took me to Maine road and we had some good times.
I think we will get cleared but with VAR and the constant attacks on our club are making me contemplate not renewing and giving up on the game completely.
Maybe that was the authorities plan all along, I'm not sure anymore.

Sorry to hear that lovely,don't give up yet,let this fire you up instead

 

[nmc]

I cant deny that all this has upset me quite a bit last few days.
I lost my dad last year and still struggling to come to terms with it. He took me to Maine road and we had some good times.
I think we will get cleared but with VAR and the constant attacks on our club are making me contemplate not renewing and giving up on the game completely.
Maybe that was the authorities plan all along, I'm not sure anymore.

Hang in there mate. Your Dad schooled you well.

 

[Blue Maverick]

dunno if these have been posted but very good

https://www.bluevibe.co.uk/userfiles/2baf3eb5-9dcb-418b-a0ef-cd4255be2ecf.MP4

And Samuel again

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...ramed-UEFA-Europes-privileged-elite-BENT.html

Stop the world, talkshite supporting City! Samuel as always is brilliant, it seems the world is waking up to how bad UEFA really is, if we get banned, I think UEFA are going to be destroyed now, it’s been shown to be corrupt not only in England but around Europe.

 

[kaz7]

Anyone know when we will hear from cas? when will they start or have they already started.

Already started,months not years is what has been said by UEFA

 

[salemcfc]

should play this before the RM game...

Haha, yes let them know just who they are picking a fight with!

I doubt they know that beyond the lawyers (who are the best in the world) they are also picking a fight with the CITY of MANCHESTER.

Good luck with that one UEFA!!

 

[kaz7]

Always thought he’s a bit self righteous and pompous...Winter. Not your typical football hack.

Middle class snob is my impression,he did like bobby though

 

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

Never minded Sam Lee but even think he has become more like the other gutter press over past few days.

Likewise I’ve liked him on a variety of pods and some of his athletic articles have been really good.
He’s out of his depth with FFP or CAS though. Listened to a second captains pod last night and he was useless. The thing is he has access too great info - like Stefan on 93.20 and he obviously hasn’t listened or read the blog and I was surprised at that cos he is a regular on 93.20. Delaney was his usual self. wnker

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

Didn’t I read somewhere on here recently with the Liverpool hacking issue, that we felt we had to rush through the Fernandinho and Navas deals in Summer 2013 and for more money than we wanted because we thought Liverpool may come in for the same players, or something to that effect?

So their hacking actually had ramifications regarding this particular issue?

Yeh - we ended up signing f#cking Navas.......... ;-)

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

€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.

Great post, and you managed to mention Mark Twain. That's a ten-out-of-ten from me.