It's just wishful thinking. I would love to see the Premier League try and deduct points off us for something that happened in 2012 when the PL did not even have FFP regulations. Another one for our lawyers I think. A long and fruitless legal battle would be great news for Richard Masters in his new job when he is trying to re-build football after Covid. He's not that stupid. Sam Lee keeps making a fool of himself.Sam Lee said on The Athletic podcast that he thinks City won’t win the League next season, because we could have a points deduction.
Assuming that means he thinks we’ll lose at CAS and the Premier League will punish us too.
If CAS wanted to make the public announcement on the Friday, and it sounds like that is what they were planning, then I think City and UEFA would be informed of the decision ahead of that, maybe at least 48 hours ahead of it.I agree. I think both parties will be told on Friday with a view to an embargo release on Monday. It gives City and UEFA time to prepare their reactions. It will be interesting to see if anything leaks out over that weekend.
I’m not sure our lawyers would be any use in that scenario. The only way city get a points deduction is if they’re found ‘guilty’ and the ban is not overturned. If the ban is upheld, even if it’s reduced, we are very likely to have fallen foul of PL rules as well. Now, given that we have ‘irrefutable evidence’ that we’ve done no wrong and we’ve being paying lawyers footballers wages to sort this out, if we’ve still come out on the wrong side of it I wouldn’t hold out much hope of fighting any PL imposed sanctions using the same proof and the same lawyers.It's just wishful thinking. I would love to see the Premier League try and deduct points off us for something that happened in 2012 when the PL did not even have FFP regulations. Another one for our lawyers I think. A long and fruitless legal battle would be great news for Richard Masters in his new job when he is trying to re-build football after Covid. He's not that stupid. Sam Lee keeps making a fool of himself.
Sam Lee said on The Athletic podcast that he thinks City won’t win the League next season, because we could have a points deduction.
Assuming that means he thinks we’ll lose at CAS and the Premier League will punish us too.
It's just wishful thinking. I would love to see the Premier League try and deduct points off us for something that happened in 2012 when the PL did not even have FFP regulations. Another one for our lawyers I think. A long and fruitless legal battle would be great news for Richard Masters in his new job when he is trying to re-build football after Covid. He's not that stupid. Sam Lee keeps making a fool of himself.
Would the Premier League want to launch a retrospective action against City for an offence which happened in 2012? The PL rules are different to the CL and didn't come in till 2013 so presumably the PL would still have to make their own case against City. Would the PL also take retrospective action against other English clubs which have breached FFP and give them points deductions? Why single City out?I’m not sure our lawyers would be any use in that scenario. The only way city get a points deduction is if they’re found ‘guilty’ and the ban is not overturned. If the ban is upheld, even if it’s reduced, we are very likely to have fallen foul of PL rules as well. Now, given that we have ‘irrefutable evidence’ that we’ve done no wrong and we’ve being paying lawyers footballers wages to sort this out, if we’ve still come out on the wrong side of it I wouldn’t hold out much hope of fighting any PL imposed sanctions using the same proof and the same lawyers.
You may be right but I just can't see that the PL would want this battle now. Imagine, City get a points deduction for breaching FFP eight years ago while LFC get off scot free for the criminal hacking of a rival's computer systems. Why would Masters open this can of worms just a few months into his job when he is facing the sport's biggest ever financial crisis?You're right - they'd struggle to sanction us for the actual breaches themselves, if we're found guilty.
They do, however, have a specific rule around misleading UEFA to gain entry to European competition - which would be far more likely to be their line of attack if CAS rules against us.
Given Masters is a specific Liverpool and United plant, you'd have to say the appetite would absolutely be there to ensure they removed us from contention for the League for the next couple of years - with all the recruitment challenges that brings!
The only ‘journalist’ to date to have blocked me on Twitter, PB. I wasn’t even rude to him, just mildly sarcastic!
Yeah but your "mildly sarcastic".....The only ‘journalist’ to date to have blocked me on Twitter, PB. I wasn’t even rude to him, just mildly sarcastic!