Ian Cheesman is well respected throughout the football community & loves the club to bits. I'm 100% sure he would not have tweeted that out of spite just because he doesn't work for the club any longer. He will however still have connections with City & he's most likely just passing on information that he's heard.Leaks do happen.
Just not to Vloggers who a few days back were “let go” by the club.
Also let’s be clear. Nothing has leaked to anyone of any repute yet. And it’s Saturday morning.
169 pages since Cheeseman's tweet yesterday afternoon. Which will be chicken feed compared to Monday!
I think you’ll find that’s me.Thought you were supposed to be the brains of this outfit, doesn’t take Colombo or Rumpole to suss out that’s some herbert on the piss take i’m afraid
I definitely think he's been told something solid. I'm very cautious about sources these days, as the same information often goes round in a loop with people swearing they've heard it from a normally reliable source. But I'm happy the information is kosher and I know that whoever Ian's source was, it wasn't the same as mine. So I'm confident it's genuine information.So Colin you really think Ian Cheeseman knows this for a fact? I definitely think he is winging it
If he's correct on Monday morning yes, if he's called it wrong the man will be destroyed and his City career/connections over!Ian Cheesman is well respected throughout the football community & loves the club to bits. I'm 100% sure he would not have tweeted that out of spite just because he doesn't work for the club any longer. He will however still have connections with City & he's most likely just passing on information that he's heard.
Give the man some credit.
That will be right, and even if it was only a couple of days notice think a condition of agreeing to wait until Monday for a announcement would have come with the condition that we get told when we would have for the 10th announcement. That get me thinking who would know, I'd say at least Abu Dhabi, Khaldoon, Soriano,Berrada Txiki, Pep.so even without any implicit leaks I'm sure those around those people, family, staff, would pick up up just on their general demeanour and mood. So it's more than possible anyone around the club or with contacts in the club could see or hear enough to take a punt like Cheeseman or Sinclair and be fairly confident of being right.I've already posted this but clearly people don't read further back or have the memory of goldfishes. The parties will have been told the preliminary decision a few days ago, at the latest. The then have an opportunity to alert CAS to any fundamental errors in the judgement. Assuming there are none, the decision is then formalised and signed off.
I think (although I don't know for sure) that the parties may have been notified of the decision as long as 2 weeks ago. There is no doubt however that the club and UEFA know the outcome that will be announced on Monday. And it's no coincidence that the news started to come out yesterday afternoon once CAS had shut for the weekend.
Before Cheesey? Or was he perhaps just using the word he read on Cheesey's post? If there were any leaks at Friday's draw tomorrow is the last chance for a world exclusive.Sinclair tweeted the exact same word.
Is he not a match day ambassador in corporate for us these days?
If he's correct on Monday morning yes, if he's called it wrong the man will be destroyed and his City career/connections over!
With zero corroboration we can obviously bin the Cheeseman tweet. Don't think he put it out for attention particularly, just a bit naive.
I still think the lack of anything out of UEFA is positive. I'm not talking full on New York Times, I mean nothing yet to give the usual suspects enough to be firm in their tone on the matter. The Delaney tweet a classic of its genre - the "I have no idea - all my sources are quiet" tweet.
I’d like to agree but I don’t think this info has gone below the highest levels, and certainly not to any levels Ian gets info from, such as Buzzer, who in my opinion is way too loose a cannon to have this info. I still think we will be ok thoughI definitely think he's been told something solid. I'm very cautious about sources these days, as the same information often goes round in a loop with people swearing they've heard it for a normally reliable source. But I'm happy the information is kosher and I know that whoever Ian's source was, it wasn't the same as mine. So I'm confident it's genuine information.