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

[Nicholas van Whatsisface]

What do you mean by ‘concrete’?

Hah!

Poor choice of word in this context, granted!

 

[Salford_Blue]

One thing that rarely gets repeated on this thread is that both parties stated that they were happy with the proceedings of the CAS meeting.

Maybe I'm an optimist, but City were confident prior and remain so to this day, so I'm of the opinion that it went well.

For UEFA? This may intimate that they are happy with what City have now presented and are content with their "evidence".

I know neither can effect the decision, but I've always been in a positive mood about this.

 

[Cobwebcat]

One thing that rarely gets repeated on this thread is that both parties stated that they were happy with the proceedings of the CAS meeting.

Maybe I'm an optimist, but City were confident prior and remain so to this day, so I'm of the opinion that it went well.

For UEFA? This may intimate that they are happy with what City have now presented and are content with their "evidence".

I know neither can effect the decision, but I've always been in a positive mood about this.

I’ve always thought that was a possibility but decided it was more likely that both sides were happy from a procedural point of view and had enough time to present all their evidence.

 

[M18CTID]

One thing that bothers me about the "irrefutable evidence", is the word believe, why not say we have irrefutable evidence?

Ferran Soriano, “We delivered a long list of documents and support that we believe is irrefutable evidence that the claims are not true and it was hard because we did this in the context of information being leaked to the media in the context of feeling that every step of the way, every engagement we had, we felt that we were considered guilty before anything was even discussed.

https://www.the42.ie/manchester-city-uefa-ban-soriano-5013704-Feb2020/

That’s still a very strong statement. It’s also been suggested on here that we may have held back some evidence for CAS as we didn’t trust UEFA in terms of confidentiality. Purely guesswork on my part but I’d imagine some of the info we needed to present would be quite sensitive and the club may have been worried about it falling into the hands of our competitors, many of whom hold positions at UEFA. But if we felt it was bad enough the likes of Gill, Parry, and Agnelli potentially seeing it, something else occurred to me - if Al-Khelaifi got hold of it then that would be another level altogether that goes way beyond football politics, given the current relations (or rather lack of) between the UAE and Qatar.

 

[BringBackSwales]

One thing that rarely gets repeated on this thread is that both parties stated that they were happy with the proceedings of the CAS meeting.

Maybe I'm an optimist, but City were confident prior and remain so to this day, so I'm of the opinion that it went well.

For UEFA? This may intimate that they are happy with what City have now presented and are content with their "evidence".

I know neither can effect the decision, but I've always been in a positive mood about this.

Tbh mate I doubt either party was going to come out and say they were unhappy with how it went? I like your optimism though

 

[Akpowell]

Neither party will be given the decision before very early Monday morning. That’s what I’ve been told anyway. I would tend to believe it as there’s been zero leaks which would’ve come had it been communicated already.

Early Sunday night I think

 

[bluestreak]

He's Italian, they always sit on the fence holding the flag (white) until they can see who is winning , then they jump on that side.

Apart from Mussolini that is :)

 

[Prophet of Doom]

There is £250,000,000 at stake on this decision. As well as preparing their media response, City have obligations to shareholders with regards to the result.

No way are they only finding out a couple of hours before the announcement, on a decision taken weeks ago.

 

[BringBackSwales]

No it hasn't been fixed so far

But if the ban is upheld fully or partially... doubt UEFA will want us anywhere near their showpiece final

They won’t do that via a fixed draw, that’s just too provable, they will do it via dodgy refereeing or var

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

There is £250,000,000 at stake on this decision. As well as preparing their media response, City have obligations to shareholders with regards to the result.

No way are they only finding out a couple of hours before the announcement, on a decision taken weeks ago.

Is that £250m the £200m we might lose by not being in the CL for 2 seasons plus the £50m we're suing UEFA for?