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

[slbsn]

I was going off this comment Projectriver ?

Correct

 

[SilverFox2]

I think we should be very selective with any legal action. It's very time-consuming and City have much bigger fish to fry at the moment. That's not to say we shouldn't be more proactive in rebutting clowns like Jordan. There are many things you can do to make life difficult for our enemies than being tied up in costly legal actions. You dont always get your costs paid even when you win.
Jordan has little credibility and Talksport is a bit of a joke. I would be more worried about people like Matthew Syed who has written defamatory articles in the past about our owners in the Times (which is still seen as an influential newspaper). I don't think many of our potential sponsors listen to Talksport. We need to pick our battles.

A long memory instead of a short temper was the ex City manager Joe Mercer's saying,

I'm sure our owners have ways to deal with problem people without a tedious legal battle some of the media actually want.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

A long memory instead of a short temper was the ex City manager Joe Mercer's saying,

I'm sure our owners have ways to deal with problem people without a tedious legal battle some of the media actually want.

I agree but I would support a selective legal action to send a shot over the bows of those who have tried to destroy us in the media. The scattergun approach is a waste of time but it would have a positive impact if we took down one of the big media fish like the BBC for example in a legal battle. As they say revenge is a dish best served cold.

 

[SilverFox2]

I agree but I would support a selective legal action to send a shot over the bows of those who have tried to destroy us in the media. The scattergun approach is a waste of time but it would have a positive impact if we took down one of the big media fish like the BBC for example in a legal battle. As they say revenge is a dish best served cold.

Fully agree.

It would be a mistake to assume our owners will simply take unlimited abuse and fabrication.

 

[BrianW]

I find our owner a bit of a mystery really. I would expect a top Arab bloke like him to be very proud, and to have a high concept of his own honour. He is of course, almost unimaginably rich and very powerful in the wider world.

For such a bloke, he seems to be willing to swallow an awful lot of shit. Maybe he's playing a long game. Maybe it's tactical. Maybe his snapping-point will come. Or maybe he's doesn't deign to climb down into the gutter with these scum.

 

[Jesus H Gabz]

I’m bringing the gavel down & going for CAS to bang a few heads together & insist that UEFA stop trying to be a big bully & City to stop blowing raspberries & flicking the bird when their backs are turned

 

[BluessinceHydeRoad]

I think we were moving towards the opinion that UEFA's assertions that City had inflated the value of sponsorship deals could only be sustained if we had also falsified our accounts and it seems that the alleged falsification of the accounts is the alleged breach that means the 5 year limit does not apply. Presumably this was argued by UEFA during City's earlier appeal but we do not know whether CAS reached any conclusion. As has been said many times before, claims of false accounts are very serious indeed and, I believe, can only be proven after long "forensic" examination. City's confidence, however, appears to rest not on the difficulties of proving we have falsified the accounts but on our "irrefutable proof" that these accusations are "simply untrue". In such circumstances I think CAS will have to abandon the idea that City can be damned on the balance of probabilities and conclude that UEFA should have irrefutable proof of its own and should have presented it NOW, not possibly at the end of a lengthy forensic examination, before it decided City were in breach. It is hard to believe UEFA can have done this. I think I am rather more confident than I was before I read projectriver's post!

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I find our owner a bit of a mystery really. I would expect a top Arab bloke like him to be very proud, and to have a high concept of his own honour. He is of course, almost unimaginably rich and very powerful in the wider world.

For such a bloke, he seems to be willing to swallow an awful lot of shit. Maybe he's playing a long game. Maybe it's tactical. Maybe his snapping-point will come. Or maybe he's doesn't deign to climb down into the gutter with these scum.

I think this has been the snapping point, from what I've heard.

 

[Holcombe bloo]

I think this has been the snapping point, from what I've heard.

If I was in the sheiks shoes, my snapping point would probably up my urge to succeed. To succeed is probably to invest more. Or call in favours from other people who can. Say people in China or linked to silverlake or any of the many multitude of companies that AD have invested in heavily.

 

[Manchester33]

Ours could be equally cut-and-dried and based on a technicality.

Yes, it could be cut and dried based on a technicality, but going off the communications from the club I don't think we had any clear procedural breaches to exploit. If that had been the case we wouldn't have had to go to CAS for a second time.