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

[doobyedoobye]

I've bought wagyu burgers for the bbq in celebration

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Maybe he did it with the full knowledge and approval of the club? Maybe the club even suggested he did it?

As pointed out earlier, Cheesey would never reveal if this was true; And as he isn't an employee of the club there could be no comeback

Grasping at illusory straws!

 

[moomba]

If I did know the result of the case I certainly wouldn't be posting it here. Seems anyone that sticks their head above the parapet runs the risk of it getting chopped off.

Obviously hope Ian Cheeseman is right, if not the fact he posted information that turned out to be inaccurate us the last of my concerns.

 

[jay_mcfc]

Juventus did a more obvious botch job of a sponsor I’ve ever seen.

- about to fail FFP due to wage bill after signing C. Ronaldo

- Jeep are owned by the same people as Juventus

- Jeep spontaneously decide to increase their annual payments to Juventus by 25 MILLION EUROS, despite having many years left on their existing sponsorship contract.

- what do you know? That was just the amount they needed to scrape through FFP.

This is where ffp is flawed though. If I was a sponsor that paid €100m per year to be a shirt sponsor would I be happy to make it €125m if they signed Ronaldo? He has 230 million followers on Instagram alone. I see zero problem with that Jeep / Juve deal.

 

[KS55]

What one?

Glen Moray. Peaty and smooth.

 

[Ric]

Sinclair tweeted the exact same word.

Is he not a match day ambassador in corporate for us these days?

I’m almost certain that Sinclair’s tweet was based on what Cheeseman had posted.

 

[urban genie]

I think you’ll find that’s me.

tbf I can imagine you as rumpole of the bailey

 

[hihosilva]

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!

It would certainly dent his credibility, which is why I think he's passed this on in good faith. It's too much to risk.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I think you’ll find that’s me.

"Me" being the brains or the herbert taking the piss?

 

[John Wayne]

It's 9:15am on a Saturday morning and I've been glued to this thread for two hours already. I think that's my weekend sorted. This will be my last contribution for a while because I don't want to create more reading for people without anything important to say.

For what it's worth, I think little weight should be attached to Ian Cheeseman's tweet yesterday. That doesn't mean to say that he may not turn out to be right but he has subsequently become conspicuous by his absence since posting that tweet. We're all City fans, of course, but he is a borderline obsessive City fan. He even admits it himself. Ask yourself this - is it plausible for a mad keen City fan, with a relative fall from media grace, to try to seize the story about the best possible news we've had in a long time? I think so, and, in the absence of any other information, I'm discarding what he said.

Pep's apparently bullish press conference yesterday may be more indicative of a positive verdict. It is perfectly conceivable that he knew at that point and it would be surprisingly forthcoming for a man who does not know to say what he said less than 72 hours before the whole world knows.