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

[JGL07]

Unless you're City 1936-1938 :-)

Remember Ipswich winning the Championship in 1961-62, finishing 17th in 1962-64, and relegated in 1964-65?

 

[jaiguruKun]

Was going to post the same but went through a tunnel!

Leeds were shite the year after they won the league in '92. Finished 17th IIRC. Were they on Peds too?

 

[mexico1970]

Just had a watch of this and it clarified a few things for me, I don't know how spot on this fella is but he seems eloquent and hasn't got a squint or an axe to grind.

 

[JASR]

With the hints by multiple people, is it worth putting something on City coming 2nd and therefore winning the PL, Betfair and PP are 250-1 ?
:-)

 

[woolleyback blue]

Never crossed my mind that UEFA was skating on thin ice; I expect they have evidence of wrongdoing. I also expect City have counter-evidence. Further, I expect we've been compiling notes since taking 'a pinch' as we would've known at that time the forces ranged against us; the targets have been lazed and the ordnance is ready to rain.

I don't know any of that for a fact; it's what I believe. By the end of the day I might be sweeping the crazy-paving jigsaw off the table in a fit of pique and starting over one piece at a time. Ignoring the hyperbole and reading between the lines is a painstaking process. But anyway, the main point I was making (and I wasn't having a go at you) is it's okay to embrace a little hope.

According to a very well respected poster and ITK on here Uefa are relying on the 4 Newspaper articles in Der Spiegl and not much else. i'd call that very thin ice.

 

[Goatmeal]

With the hints by multiple people, is it worth putting something on City coming 2nd and therefore winning the PL, Betfair and PP are 250-1 ?
:-)

No I would say. The powers that be won’t let it happen. And nor should it.
Dippers have been the best team this season. No matter how much we hate them, they have been fantastic.
Just like we were last season.
Whatever goes on behind the scenes the players have played in good faith. Whoever wins the league then those set of players have deserved it.
It would be hard for any organisation to go against that and deduct points either this season or retrospectively for previous seasons.
Save your money

 

[Prater70]

Saracens.

 

[blueparrot]

Saracens.

What about them?

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Or maybe he does have an idea of the story but dare not make any reference to it because of legal ramifications

If I had the story, I wouldn't be still so uncertain what the ultimate outcome would be.

I'm sure City have not spent the last few years sat idle when it comes to knowing where the bodies are buried, however.

Whatever our club has or doesn't have, why would they want to telegraph it, especially so, when we have cited how unprofessional the leaks have been concerning this whole Uefa process investigation so far.

I want to believe there is a smoking gun, an exhibit A, but I don't see how that needs to be brought out at CAS, unless we take it further to the Swiss Courts.

You don't spend £20k a day on a lawyer who is an expert on legislative procedure, if you have an Uzi under the silks?

Whatever happens in the next few months, I don't envisage that will be the end of it.

PB clearly has his own sources for info and I respect that.

City don't need the media on this one. This is about people who know what the fuck they are talking about, the best in their chosen professions.

Blues need to remind themselves, most football media types say what they think, not what they know.

I've said this many times. I can drive a car relatively fast... Lewis Hamilton, does not it make.

 

[Plain Speaking]

Just had a watch of this and it clarified a few things for me, I don't know how spot on this fella is but he seems eloquent and hasn't got a squint or an axe to grind.

Thanks for that but he didn't seem to contemplate the possibility we might not have actually breached FFP?

He was basically arguing our expensive legal team would argue the investigation process might not have been sufficiently independent