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

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

Even the Joan Gamper trophy?

What a great day that was. Martin Petrov goal, them hitting the woodwork seemingly 20 times and first start for Tevez.

 

[cibaman]

I am not worried about this in the slightest now. Very very confident we will get off and all will be well. Just going to enjoy the next few weeks.

Hoping for United to finish 5th?

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

What a great day that was. Martin Petrov goal, them hitting the woodwork seemingly 20 times and first start for Tevez.

And the City fans signing "you don't know what you're doing" to Dunny just before he lifted the trophy!

 

[route46]

is it possible the Email about Etihad only paying £8m is from when the airway was in financial trouble?

Etihad tell City they can only afford £8m of the sponsorship deal and HH will honour the outstanding balance?

 

[Len Rum]

Who knows. Wheneveryyou go into court it's head to pedict the outcome. Who thought OJ Simpson would walk free?
I think we have a reasonably strong case on procedural grounds alone but whether that will be enough for City I dont know, as people will see it merely as getting off on a technicality. They may want to go onto the front foot and take the fight further.

That's about my assessment of the strength of our case.
It's certainly not the slam dunk, wham bam thank you mam case that many think City have got up their sleeve.
Notwithstanding the fact that it may or may not fall within CAS's remit, I would be happier if our technical argument against the 'inflated sponsorship' accusation was stronger.You yourself stated in the blog with Cheesy that you felt that our procedural case was stronger than our technical one.
So unless City have found a show stopper argument such as the 'out of time' issue, which a senior lawyer has argued is in City's favour*, then IMO all this points to CAS splitting the difference and ruling on a one year ban.
* PS see below part deux ( maurizio post) , hope this strengthens our case!

 

[Boris Becker’s Backhand]

Gary Neville of all people coming out and calling Uefa an incompetent and badly run organisation and he expects City to win tells you a lot about this shit storm. The other thing is Uefa are The Court of Arbitration For Sport’s biggest client. They can’t investigate and reach a sound conclusion of a case with out the other people’s legal team picking holes in what they do. The guy who is leading this investigation from the UEFA side of things nearly managed to crash a bank into a ground, is he a fit and proper person to be conducting this?

Neville’s a clueless gobshite, if he expects us to win I’m worried

 

[maurizio]

This from Stefan is brilliant. A surgical look at what the 2014 settlement and subsequent CAS cases tells us about what could happen.

Thanks for posting. This is excellent and explained a lot. Everyone should read this blog both parts. "The author is a more than 20 year English qualified lawyer, current public company Chief Executive Officer, former General Counsel, former financial adviser to the Board of Manchester City and an experienced litigator including in matters of complex accounting".

 

[richards30]

He must have spent well over 2bn on CFG as a whole which is why he brought in Silverlake. Sure, he has a paper profit but the committment is huge in financial and emotional terms. He wont go.

surely no one has thought mansour and khaldoon would go? What started out as an investment and exposure opportunity for Abu Dhabi has become an obsession for them and they are now fans as well as owners! Check out mansours social media pages and his palace has all sorts of city memorabilia hanging up on the walls etc!

 

[HalfwayUpTheKippax]

Henry Winter wrote this in January last year when the dippers were 7 points clear and just before City beat them.

Every supporter should celebrate if Liverpool triumph

Most of the article is hidden behind the Times' paywall but the title of the article tells you everything you need to kow.

He got a hard on for them in 2014 until Slippy G spoilt it for him like a whack with a cold spoon

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Your assumption here is that UEFA are acting rationally yet everything that comes out of that organisation suggests an almost visceral and institutional hatred of MCFC and its owners.

Presumably though they are under legal advice the same as we are, and a willingness to sign their own death warrants is a bit of a stretch even for UEFA’s morons