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

[BLUEMATT23]

Less than 50% in the poll think City will be exonerated. Thats not exactly very confident.

Sorry meant we as In the club not this forum
Sorriano and co.

 

[chesterbells]

We seem very confident of being exonerated, we will look a bit silly if we dont overturn it.
Cant help but think it's going to be 1 year halfway house compromise.

You’d describe that as a compromise, I’d call it defeat.

 

[blueparrot]

In what regards to not going after Liverpool if we win against UEFA ?

We are led to believe that our club has done some digging which was supposedly meant to have been drip fed into the media until the covid outbreak - why do you feel that would change ?

Even if we win we should not let those that initiated and wanted to bring us down getaway with any of it

Feeding the media isn’t the same as us taking any action against anybody.Once its in the open it’s up to others to take any action with it or not.

 

[nmc]

Less than 50% in the poll think City will be exonerated. Thats not exactly very confident.

Most City fans would hedge their bets until about 09:30pm on the prospect of it getting dark tonight!

 

[SilverFox2]

Less than 50% in the poll think City will be exonerated. Thats not exactly very confident.

Sounds a bit like the chances of the real City turning up for any match.
As an older than most City fan I am still expecting the unexpected from City and in this case its management despite them being the best we have ever had.

As my dad told me years ago, its character building supporting City. He didn't tell me it lasted a lifetime though.

 

[BlueMoonz1977]

I never said we wouldn't brief media, play the "game", be competitive etc. I said we would not be instituting legal proceedings.

All our competitors want to "bring us down". We want to bring down all our competitors. Its sport, its business. Thats life.

Of course, you are entitled to disagree. My view is as set out above.

Sorry, didn't realise you meant legal proceedings - I misread it

 

[FootballSense]

Less than 50% in the poll think City will be exonerated. Thats not exactly very confident.

I appreciate some of the very valid opinions you have given on this subject.

However, what this small poll comes out with or not is irrelevant.

Most were very confident going into the Wigan FA Cup Final but we lost. Most were not very confident going into the Munich 50 years Anniversary at The Swamp when the world and his cousin were encouraging a home victory yet CITY won away for the first time since I was there in 1974.

The fact is we do not know and all this speculation is just that.

 

[BLUEMATT23]

You’d describe that as a compromise, I’d call it defeat.

Not sure - often in these cases theirs an impasse and disagreements and thus no one can decide for sure.
Be amazed if it's anything different than 1 year reduced but here's hoping hey

 

[Newman Noggs]

In what regards to not going after Liverpool if we win against UEFA ?

We are led to believe that our club has done some digging which was supposedly meant to have been drip fed into the media until the covid outbreak - why do you feel that would change ?

Even if we win we should not let those that initiated and wanted to bring us down getaway with any of it

Positions are so entrenched by now that there is nothing to be gained by extended Court proceedings. All it would do is enable our host of enemies to pore over every detail of our case trying to find more reasons, no matter how trivial or dubious, to extend the smear campaign. It simply wouldn't be worth it.

A robust Judgment in our favour, though, would, at least, make our critics a little more circumspect in their insinuations.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

Even if CAs come out with the verdict that we are not guilty on all charges. The damage done by UEFA and the G14 group of clubs will take a lot of undoing. The only way to do that is to take the lot of them to court. To and to sue them for either slander/libel or maybe even both. We should also charge UEFA for adding and abetting a crime namely that of hacking our system. The same would apply to Der Spiegel. As the offence happen in the United Kingdom the laws of this country should apply.

The board should start now to issue summons to the full board of Der Spiegel + it's owners of the impending trial. At once, the moment CAS find us not guilty on all charges. That we will be seeking substantial damages + costs. It has to be substantial to put of any other newspapers or journos from printing something that they know is far from true. Any decent journo/s should not be printing anything without a proper investigation.

If the hacked emails have been used, charge them with receiving/passing on stolen goods.