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

[Prestwich_Blue]

I had forgotten that Brian Quinn (former Celtic Director) was also on the IC but apparently quit because UEFA were too lenient on City. A quick Google check shows he is now a Non Exec Director of the Qatar Financial Services Authority. FFS is there anyone connected to UEFA who is not on the Qatari payroll in one form or another. Don't forget that Rick Parry (former LFC boss) was also hired as a "security consultant" for the Qatar World Cup bid.

Pep was a Qatar World Cup Ambassador. Now we know who hacked the email system.

 

[blueyorkie]

The Expert Witnesses very likely to be accounting experts. Potentially also sponsorship experts. Very much doubt anything to do with Etihad aside from the value of the contract with City and how it was accounted for.

I had the pleasure of listening to your excellent comments on 93:20 this morning whilst driving to an appointment. I always feel that you carefully temper your comments which makes your opinion honest & clear. Thought the summation was really helpful to those of us without a grasp of the subject matter. Thank you, I really hope & pray you are right in your conclusion!

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

PSG aren’t a threat to any of them, which is a factor in the cabal’s acceptance of them. If we qualify for the CL it invariably means the rags, the dippers or the Arse miss out. If PSG qualify for the CL, it means Racing Club Lens or Toulouse miss out and nobody gives a shit

Or Newcastle if the sale actually happens and they buy well.

 

[dario2739]

Certainly does, and gives a real perspective about the parties with an agenda against us . PSG it would appear have been accepted , however reluctantly or not , and we are the major " fly in the ointment " for the all the other self-serving bastards in the cabal.

It's not so much that PSG have been accepted, but rather that Qatar has so much influence across European football now that UEFA's greed meant they had no choice.
It's actually pretty disturbing how much influence Qatar has, and how many clubs they have financial stakes in (one way or another)... It's more disturbing... or perhaps more telling, that no journalist has questioned this, highlighted it or investigated it!

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

It's not so much that PSG have been accepted, but rather that Qatar has so much influence across European football now that UEFA's greed meant they had no choice.
It's actually pretty disturbing how much influence Qatar has, and how many clubs they have financial stakes in (one way or another)... It's more disturbing... or perhaps more telling, that no journalist has questioned this, highlighted it or investigated it!

You have expressed it better than I did, but that was what I was really alluding to.

Qatar has certainly muscled it's way in on so many levels.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

‘Oh, Man City, the only football team to come from Manchester’...
We all have used that moniker at sometime.

Lyrics to make a song rhyme better seems rather different to continually hear the club referred to as 'Man City' as they do on radio, sometimes three or four times by the same person in the space of a minute. Surely it's easier to just say 'City' when everyone is aware they are not referring to Norwich or Leicester.

 

[domalino]

It's not so much that PSG have been accepted, but rather that Qatar has so much influence across European football now that UEFA's greed meant they had no choice.
It's actually pretty disturbing how much influence Qatar has, and how many clubs they have financial stakes in (one way or another)... It's more disturbing... or perhaps more telling, that no journalist has questioned this, highlighted it or investigated it!

You have expressed it better than I did, but that was what I was really alluding to.

Qatar has certainly muscled it's way in on so many levels.

Qatar's influence doesn't come from owning parts of football clubs, it comes from BeIn investing $15 (fifteen) Billion in sporting TV rights deals since 2012.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Qatar's influence doesn't come from owning parts of football clubs, it comes from BeIn investing $15 (fifteen) Billion in sporting TV rights deals since 2012.

Ok thanks.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Reading this thread takes you from confident to doom and gloom and back to confident with every page, it’s going to be a long few weeks wait, god bless anxiety tablets.

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[slbsn]

I had the pleasure of listening to your excellent comments on 93:20 this morning whilst driving to an appointment. I always feel that you carefully temper your comments which makes your opinion honest & clear. Thought the summation was really helpful to those of us without a grasp of the subject matter. Thank you, I really hope & pray you are right in your conclusion!

Cheers. Ultimately, the stakes are so high for the club, I struggle to believe they would spin the wheel at CAS without a high level of confidence. My concern on the flip side remains that there is never a certainty in any hearing...