Well put,im in exactly same thoughts as this reguarding clubs reputation on line,just cant see them being so sure,yet at same time they know there in wrong,just doesent make senseThis, in my opinion, is an fair way to think about the current ffp (CAS) situation but to me it is not what guides my thinking. For me, it is about the principle of the honesty of the club‘s top people. I totally believe them when they say that the club has done nothing wrong and that if the facts (and only the facts) are used to determine the CAS outcome we will be totally exonerated. If the CAS decision does not totally absolve us from any wrong doing, I expect the club to take it to the highest legal court. If we do not, then the principle of the club’s honesty will have been broken AND once broken can never again be mended.
The club’s top hierarchy have put their reputations on the line and I hope that my belief in their integrity is not damaged in any way. I am sure that my belief will be sustained in the days, months and years to come. I have been a city supporter for well over 50 years but this is a (THE) watershed moment for me.
This is the central issue of the whole matter. Presumably City have shown documentary evidence to the court that there has been no modification of contracts, no inflation of sponsorship deals and that the source of the cash coming into the club is exactly what the club and its accounts claim and demonstrate. We don't know what has been presented to CAS but I assume its what I reckon, but do you know this, tolmie? If you do, then there is now way the DS emails are in context or of any real relevance. UEFA cannot prove that our accounts are anything but a full and true representation.
As for emails, I would make the point that in 2014 the club has emails that show that it actually worked closely with UEFA (cooperated?!) to avoid falling foul of the regulations and to avoid being sanctioned, and after assuring the club that it was on course to avoid any sanction UEFA changed the relevant dates to ensure City failed and copped some very serious sanctions. This seems an object lesson in the price of cooperation, which was reinforced when City saw the IC in action and could evaluate the integrity of its chairman and chief investigator. Even so a charge of non-cooperation is hard to sustain in the face of a dossier of some hundred documents. If City's appeal is upheld it is plainly ludicrous to say that a one year ban and/or fine is justified because, although City didn't do any of the things UEFA claim they did, they must be banned because they didn't help prove they did!
There must be some very strong evidence against us - surely the IC & AC had to have something to justify such a huge punishment, especially as we’d already been punished for the period concerned?
They can’t be so amateurish as to go to CAS unarmed.
I wouldn’t have thought so as yet, I reckon maybe 48 hours before.CAS would normally give the findings to both parties a few days prior to publishing as it was their intention to publish on the 10th can we assume City and Uefa know the outcome?
CAS would normally give the findings to both parties a few days prior to publishing as it was their intention to publish on the 10th can we assume City and Uefa know the outcome?
CAS would normally give the findings to both parties a few days prior to publishing as it was their intention to publish on the 10th can we assume City and Uefa know the outcome?
CAS would normally give the findings to both parties a few days prior to publishing as it was their intention to publish on the 10th can we assume City and Uefa know the outcome?
Not sure where to start with this but here goes:I don’t want to sound like the idiot fans of other clubs who say we have cooked the books or are committing money laundering. But how can CAS punish us without a criminal investigation ? I know it’s was suggested that there is no public interest (rival clubs would disagree) and if we have done what’s alleged we have actually given the tax man more money not less but we have non the less fiddled the books. The fact this case is major news but nothing is happening in the criminal sense surely makes it likely we will win at CAS. Can it even be a sort of defense ? Am I missing something ? Heck the press who have gone after us haven’t even suggested we are criminals perhaps they to know we haven’t done anything wrong
West Ham sent us down last game of season not the rags,us and Brum both on 31pts Brum won finished on 33 (2 pts for win) we lost at West ham and finished on 31.