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

[Didsbury Dave]

No it won't

It is, mate. Notwithstanding the hundreds and hundreds of millions which are standing on it, the direction of the entire project rides on it.

It might not feel like it to you as a fan but for the club itself it’s more important than them all

 

[Bluecolin]

It's the draw for this season's competition so we'll be in it.

Thanks PB wasn’t sure !

 

[mayo31]

It is, mate. Notwithstanding the hundreds and hundreds of millions which are standing on it, the direction of the entire project rides on it.

It might not feel like it to you as a fan but for the club itself it’s more important than them all

I get it

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Whilst I would tend to agree mate and we must not get carried away, my own personal opinion (FWIW) is that this whole thing has been gamed-out for months.

A multi-billion pound business cannot risk its entire model and reputation on a 50/50 verdict over a three-day arbitration hearing.

Bluffs and counter-bluffs have been called, but in reality, there is surely too much damage involved for pragmatism to have not come to the fore way before now?

It is absolute folly and bravado at best to have not reached a suitable settlement beforehand, unless..

A) our evidence is so clear cut it should have been evident to CAS.

B) It was in someone's interests to have let it go this far.

C) A deal was done months ago behind the scenes by the real power brokers and City are complicit.

If it is none of the above and our appeal is not upheld, then we have been stupid beyond belief, irrespective of our own conviction at innocence.

Plenty of innocent people have been imprisoned.

I don't really care which one we are, only that we beat this charge and we've not just bet it all on black at the turn of a wheel.

Re C) I can’t see (or indeed comprehend) what kind of deal we might have brokered that would involve us then taking ex-post facto part in a dead rubber CAS hearing. I can’t imagine that (if they’d been made aware) CAS would countenance such a hearing taking place, or that if CAS found in UEFA’s favour they (UEFA) would withdraw their original punishment and replace it with whatever might have been previously agreed behind the scenes. There would be uproar, and it would also add weight to the notion of City buying the powers that be, off.

I’m more inclined to believe that the hearing was ‘real’ because UEFA (or rather the usual suspects) wouldn’t agree to a deal

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

No it won't

yes it will.

Getting the all clear over accusations of in effect cheating will be much more bigger than winning a cup or league title

 

[BringBackSwales]

Genuine question to all you ITKs, if the chumps draw is on Friday do I understand it correctly we won’t be in it because of the 2 Y ban ? and if that’s true and when we are exonerated on the 13th will they have to redraw it or just take who replaces us ?

It’s the next 2 season, not this season, even though I am most certainly not “ITK” on anything

 

[BAB.DAB]

A deal might of been done to make the trial look ' real '.
Uefa lawyers rolling up with just a few parts of a hacked email conversation and no other evidence.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

Whenever there's a bullish sentiment coming from the club and the informed on here, I tend to err to the more pessimistic side (as normal), so I'm psychologically preparing for a lifetime ban and relegation to the National league north so I'll be pleasantly surprised hopefully come the verdict.

Says it all when we're worrying about this because of a hack to persecute a technicality, when if the same was done to certain other clubs they could be relegated without need of a trial.

 

[BufordUSABlue]

Whenever there's a bullish sentiment coming from the club and the informed on here, I tend to err to the more pessimistic side (as normal), so I'm psychologically preparing for a lifetime ban and relegation to the National league north so I'll be pleasantly surprised hopefully come the verdict.

Says it all when we're worrying about this because of a hack to persecute a technicality, when if the same was done to certain other clubs they could be relegated without need of a trial.

That’s the spirit!!

 

[Nails]

Let me be clear (in my Obama voice), I have no knowledge of why they have been left with that impression, I certainly don't expect City to have told them out of courtesy.

I suspect it could be more to do with them gauging the demeanour of our own executive team.

To be fair, and to tamp down any overexcitement on here (some chance!), although that's nice to hear, it really doesn't mean any more than we've already heard. We've known for a while the club is confident. They've just transmitted that confidence to the Liverpool c-suite.