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

[@BluePhil8]

Common knowledge in the link above but one key statement

Would City appeal?
Almost certainly, and emphatically, one would assume. If City are punished, expect this to spark a huge legal battle and an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

Sky Sports understands City have retained services of some of the world's top sports lawyers.

Makes me wet.

 

[Citizen in Pakistan]

You should have just wrote, "Liverpool didn't win the league, fucking deal with it".

Short and Sweet

 

[@BluePhil8]

what I don't get is why UEFA are after us, there is a clear and obvious agenda but I don't get why. if they ban us from the CL what do they gain? firstly the winners are the champions of Europe as the best team in Europe hasn't entered, any title would be meaningless. financially it's a minor set back at best, of all clubs we can swallow the loss the easiest. they certainly aren't hurting the fans, we don't give a fuck. so now lets flip it, what can they lose by pursuing us? they would certainly lose their favourite commodity, money. their reputation will be shot, whats left of it anyway. then there is our own "investigations. don't they think that we will respond in kind, once banned we would search every aspect of their operation, we WILL find something, perhaps a club being fined like 10k for the offence we have been banned for. we'd slice them wide open.

careful UEFA, we are no longer ickkle City.

External pressure from Liverpool and United mate.

 

[Bill]

External pressure from Liverpool and United mate.

Oh i get that, Barca and co too, but one of those clubs will one day fall foul of ffp, no chance they ban they so we would string them up.

 

[Robinho's Subbuteo]

External pressure from Liverpool and United mate.

If they want a league where only they dominate, I suggest they form a new league with just the two of them in it.

Then they can congratulate themselves up their own backsides.

 

[Oystercatcher28]

So, does the New York Times has shares or ownership stakes in Liverpool F.C. or not? I know it did in 2011.

 

[M18CTID]

So who's our money on? I'm hearing the bookies have stopped taking bets on Rick Parry already

 

[Andrew___K]

what I don't get is why UEFA are after us, there is a clear and obvious agenda but I don't get why. if they ban us from the CL what do they gain? firstly the winners are the champions of Europe as the best team in Europe hasn't entered, any title would be meaningless. financially it's a minor set back at best, of all clubs we can swallow the loss the easiest. they certainly aren't hurting the fans, we don't give a fuck. so now lets flip it, what can they lose by pursuing us? they would certainly lose their favourite commodity, money. their reputation will be shot, whats left of it anyway. then there is our own "investigations. don't they think that we will respond in kind, once banned we would search every aspect of their operation, we WILL find something, perhaps a club being fined like 10k for the offence we have been banned for. we'd slice them wide open.

careful UEFA, we are no longer ickkle City.

UEFA are essentially Big Four's puppet, protecting the market from new strong players, i.e. City and PSG.

Besides, the Big 4 (Barca, Madrid, Juve, Bayern) are actively searching ways of turning CL into a paneuropean league, as they've already sucked dry their domestic leagues. The major obstacle is the too rich and powerful Premier League that should be turned (according to Agnelli's plan) into a second-rate tournament with games played in midweek.

I'm sure the Cartel is already offering United, Pool and others their help against City and Chelsea behind the closed doors to get a better deal with PL clubs in the near future.

 

[jrb]

City have made a club statement on the OS. https://www.mancity.com/news/club-n...y/man-city-club-statement-uefa-new-york-times

I think the NYT story was the straw that broke the camels back for the club.

Even the club didn’t think or expect a media organisation would deliberately ruin City’s title celebrations and positive World exposure the day after winning the title.

Sheikh Mansour, Khaldoon, Soriano, etc must be furious at the way it was done, and the way the club is being treated by the media, not only here, but across the World

That aside, City must know which clubs and their owners are behind these constant attacks and smear campaigns against City.

 

[Henkeman]

It's absolutely bizarre, mate.

Any lawyer sat in a newspaper office would have complete loyalty to the paper. In removing the attribution to a source, it leaves them totally exposed.

And only three conclusions.

* There is no source. It has been falsified, which opens a different can of worms (Especially so, as we supposedly don't need to wait long to find out the actual findings of the chamber) Why did the lawyer pass the original article in the first place?

* UEFA or someone aligned with Liverpool are backtracking and have been in touch.

It really is. I asked a journalist mate how that could happen, and he said it's unlikely the editor would have asked who the sources were, so it would be down to the journalist to insist they were strong enough if it came down to it. But that removing that line makes it look extremely dodgy.

He's obviously not going to throw a colleague under the bus, even anonymously, but suffice to say his eyebrows have shot up.