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

[tolmie's hairdoo]

what? How can he “not take the brief” one day before the case starts?

Maybe he didn't take the brief weeks ago and the reporting of him doing so was innacurate?

It wouldn't be the first time would it?

 

[slbsn]

Maybe he didn't take the brief weeks ago and the reporting of him doing so was innacurate?

It wouldn't be the first time would it?

As you say, if he didn't take the brief, he didn't take it when reported. He would not have dropped out at the last minute. It was a legal press story - it could easily have been Chinese whispers or conditional on something falling away (like another case) especially as he worked for the club previously

 

[SilvaisSkyBlue]

Maybe he didn't take the brief weeks ago and the reporting of him doing so was innacurate?

It wouldn't be the first time would it?

That would make it worse, why would City still be letting it be reported he had? Surely it would undermine whoever had taken the brief, why would City hold that information to themselves?

Anyhow, hopefully it is just a rumour as the OP states.

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Really, the bloggers submit regularly to tabloids that they pick up from the likes of here.
I’ve said my bit & im done.
This thread is far to important to be derailed !

They might sniff around on here looking for stuff they can use, but they know exactly what they’re looking for. The editorial position of just about every newspaper these days is to maximise clicks whenever possible, and on the sports pages that means (broadly speaking) puff pieces on the dippers and the rags, and given that we are a ready packaged enemy of both of those clubs and their huge global fanbases, hatchet jobs on Manchester City. That policy comes pre-determined and not as a result of what they may or may not read on Blue Moon

 

[slbsn]

That would make it worse, why would City still be letting it be reported he had? Surely it would undermine whoever had taken the brief, why would City hold that information to themselves?

Anyhow, hopefully it is just a rumour as the OP states.

May well just take a view that commenting on our legal team is pretty dull and irrelevant.

 

[Coatigan]

We could appeal against the CAS ruling to the Swiss Federal Tribunal, but only on very specific grounds. Guess the only other option would be to try and challenge the very legality of FFP in the European Court of Justice?

If we do lose and the ban us upheld, i can't see how the PL can't not then be obliged to look again at any informatiom we submitted for their own version of financial play. It may be that we ars absolutely fine even with the worst case interpretation of the accounts, as the thresholds ste different, and it is all over. But if the outcome even insinuates that we deliberately mislead anyone then there will be some serious accusations to deal with, domestically, never mind in switzerland. And i struggle to imagine one will wait for the outcone if the other, we'll be stretched fighting all it in all sides.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

As you say, if he didn't take the brief, he didn't take it when reported. He would not have dropped out at the last minute. It was a legal press story - it could easily have been Chinese whispers or conditional on something falling away (like another case) especially as he worked for the club previously

Yep, his chambers are pretty much on retainer with the UAE.

If you circulate a narrative long enough, it soon becomes gospel.

As City have found to their cost this past decade...

If he was on and now he's off, it's because something more pressing now takes precedent.

The CAS hearing date was always up in the air and was only announced recently.

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

Reduced ban is for the fairies.

We are either exonerated completely or banned for 2 years.

There is no middle ground fudge here.

Exactly. How many "pinches" are we going to take.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

That would make it worse, why would City still be letting it be reported he had? Surely it would undermine whoever had taken the brief, why would City hold that information to themselves?

Anyhow, hopefully it is just a rumour as the OP states.

Well it would have been weeks of "Pannick snubs City", "City's CAS Crisis" etc. rather than nice and quiet as it has been.

Stefan just had to go and write Monday's headlines for whatever reason.

 

[slbsn]

General point. Neither side really wants to go to CAS (whatever City say). If City's advice was anything but confident and strong, they would have found a way to settle this matter (today if need be). That is not to say the advice is "you will win" but it must be advice that they should have the best of the arguments. I'm pretty sure UEFA would happily take a one year ban - if we really thought we were likely to lose, I think we would take it.