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

[Prestwich_Blue]

I've been puzzled by this claim as well, which has been repeated by several.

The UEFA claim is always that the CFCB is independent of the UEFA executive.
But Ceferin trying to negotiate something surely runs counter to that.

Ceferin was offering to be lenient, the cartel were no doubt leaning on him to really hammer us. I think that tells you everything you need to know about the AC's "independence". Quite clearly they're being influenced.

 

[BringBackSwales]

But you can only bring a specific dispute to them. We couldn't go straight to CAS and complain about FFP & how it breaches EU Competition Law. They will take the relevant law into account in a dispute. They are not a court of law however.

Do you know what the process is for finding the third person on the tribunal PB? Should be quite interesting to find an individual who is deemed suitable to both City and booefa!

 

[the plasterer]

But you can only bring a specific dispute to them. We couldn't go straight to CAS and complain about FFP & how it breaches EU Competition Law. They will take the relevant law into account in a dispute. They are not a court of law however.

Colin, you seem really clued up on all this, in your own humble opinion, what’s the most likely outcome??

 

[Dirty Harry]

City don't trust UEFA

Wouldn't surprise me if this was a big part of where the "failing to co-operate" bollocks comes from, I think we've lost all confidence in them to act in an impartial manner and told them to fuck off, we'll go to a professional and recognised sporting body.
With the benefit of hindsight, I wonder if the club now thinks they should have challenged UEFA the moment they changed the calculation format AFTER they'd given us advice and assurances and we'd submitted our accounts.

Wankers !

 

[Keeper!]

Worst case scenario , (notwithstanding relegation to league 2 , all the players leaving , the sky falling in etc etc) we have 2 years out of the champions league .. Plenty of big clubs have had a couple of years out of the champions league , have all their players left ?.. has it sunk their club ? …..I'll be honest if the boot was on the other foot and this had just been announced that Liverpool had been banned from Europe for 2 years my first thought would be , damn , there goes the title for the next 2 seasons , and that's what we should be thinking now .. City playing 1 game a week ,every week ,training for the next weekend , working on set pieces , less injuries , more recovery time...look at Chelsea or Leicester without European football , less games is a big advantage in the domestic league ...
what doesn't kill you , makes you stronger , think positive blues f**k em ..ctid

Don't lets fool ourselves, IF the ban is confirmed by CAS, it would be a total disaster and set the club back years.

But I have 100% confidence that CAS will throw out the ban, and our owners resolve to make us the biggest and greatest club in the world will be strengthened considerably.

 

[Groke]

That Copenhagen banner looked brilliant

Would have been better showing pigs in a trough - with liverpool, united, Bayern and Real pigs taking centre stage.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Ceferin was offering to be lenient, the cartel were no doubt leaning on him to really hammer us. I think that tells you everything you need to know about the AC's "independence". Quite clearly they're being influenced.

I'd forgotten this had come via you from Berrada.
They're certainly pressurised, I agree - at least some of the G14 are clearly agitating at any level they can.

There are different levels of 'independence' in people's interpretations that means it's not understood or cited in the same sense by everyone.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

Do you know what the process is for finding the third person on the tribunal PB? Should be quite interesting to find an individual who is deemed suitable to both City and booefa!

Do they need to be? City will select someone they think will act in the 'best' way, and that includes selection of the 3rd judge.

 

[oman0115]

I just listened to that fat Geordie podcast, he was ranting and raving how we’ve cheated and not won anything fairly blah blah. Firstly he’s a Newcastle fan so this type of stuff just prevents his team ever competing, and do people out there genuinely think the rags, dippers and Chelsea ever won anything without spending money?

One more thing wasn’t ffp there to preven a Leeds and Portsmouth? This is nothing to do with preventing clubs go under, it’s so obviously about protecting a chosen few from new competition! If people want a football where everything is stale and predictable they can have it

 

[BringBackSwales]

Do they need to be? City will select someone they think will act in the 'best' way, and that includes selection of the 3rd judge.

That wasn’t what I asked. I asked how BOTH parties selected the third person to satisfy BOTH parties