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

What do you think will be the outcome of the CAS hearing?

  • Two-year ban upheld

    Votes: 197 13.1%

  • Ban reduced to one year

    Votes: 422 28.2%

  • Ban overturned and City exonerated

    Votes: 815 54.4%

  • Other

    Votes: 65 4.3%
  • Total voters
    1,499
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ManCityX said:
Maybe I’m being really cynical but hope it’s not a case of it being too late to ban us this season so they’re keeping their powder dry to unleash another assault just as we’re picking up another set of trophies in May.
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I wouldn’t give a shit if that was the case. It didn’t sour my celebrations last season and I’d be fucking well up for a year out of the CL. Fuck the ****s!
 
The doubt raised by many in this thread regarding the outstanding morally enhanced publication that is the Times is awfully bad form.

This is a publication that has a long standing trustworthy reputation for no nonsense serious journalism.

One only has to look at the last time they bought verified and trusted documents from a German publication (Stern, in this example), and paid a very substantial amount of money to serialise in the Sunday Times, the never to be forgotten historical documents ‘The Hitler Diaries’.

Just because said diaries turned out to be utter bollocks written by a well known forger/fraudster should not diminish that this time, the TImes have thoroughly researched and verified emails from a fraudster who is facing very serious charges for various criminal activities whilst being very vague as to the source of the email documents where these stories are coming from.

So please, show respect for the journalistic ground breakers.
 
Centurions said:
I'm really looking forward to the apology from UEFA when CAS throw it out because I'm convinced that Khaldoon will get to write it for them word for word with the threat of further action if they refuse.
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Centurions said:
I'm really looking forward to the apology from UEFA when CAS throw it out because I'm convinced that Khaldoon will get to write it for them word for word with the threat of further action if they refuse.
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There will be no apology from UEFA. They will say we were just doing our job.
The juicy apology, when we are cleared, should come from Syeed, who promised to apoligise if he was wrong, but he will weasel out of it.
 
cookster said:
"All those" not "All one". Care to share any others?
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So you're ignoring the leaking of the pogba contract details
And Jose being done for tax evasion, that was footy leaks
The leaks of the new champions league version, that was utd
The leaked martial contract
Leaked utd wages of multiple players etc

Actually look at the link I posted and you'll see 100+ articles. I'm not your mother to link you to every single one
 
CharliesRightPeg said:
So you're ignoring the leaking of the pogba contract details
And Jose being done for tax evasion, that was footy leaks
The leaks of the new champions league version, that was utd
The leaked martial contract
Leaked utd wages of multiple players etc

Actually look at the link I posted and you'll see 100+ articles. I'm not your mother to link you to every single one
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Those (plural) as in Liverpool and United as quoted by @waspish
 
CharliesRightPeg said:
So you're ignoring the leaking of the pogba contract details
And Jose being done for tax evasion, that was footy leaks
The leaks of the new champions league version, that was utd
The leaked martial contract
Leaked utd wages of multiple players etc

Actually look at the link I posted and you'll see 100+ articles. I'm not your mother to link you to every single one
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Pogba contract was over the media when he signed.
 
rickmcfc said:
Am I missing something here? I thought we were handed a fine because we admitted to breaches or am I getting confused with something else? Wasn’t there uproar with Chelsea fans as to why they received a ban and we didn’t?
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Think you're mixing this up with FIFA probe into international transfers of junior players. Chelsea did indeed receive a tfr ban, while we were just fined.
 
Ziegler knew exactly what he was doing.

City were in the public eye, because of Vinnie's testimonial, so he chucks out a nothing article, to feed off that publicity.

He's laughing his tits off at everyone frothing at the mouth, all the while, he's getting the clicks and publicity for said article he was after.

Win win for him.
 
CharliesRightPeg said:
So you're ignoring the leaking of the pogba contract details
And Jose being done for tax evasion, that was footy leaks
The leaks of the new champions league version, that was utd
The leaked martial contract
Leaked utd wages of multiple players etc

Actually look at the link I posted and you'll see 100+ articles. I'm not your mother to link you to every single one
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You are right but very few of the negative articles have been extensively followed up by the media in the UK. The tax evasion stuff seemed to be on the press agenda here for about 24 hours. But the press have been relentless in their coverage of a seven-year-old alleged FFP breach by City. The story has been covered again and again by the BBC, the Daily Mail, Telegraph and numerous snide aticles have been writted on social media by columnists. Even the Ronaldo rape story which came out of Footy leaks was a short-lived story in the UK. City have been targeted.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
You are right but very few of the negative articles have been extensively followed up by the media in the UK. The tax evasion stuff seemed to be on the press agenda here for about 24 hours. But the press have been relentless in their coverage of a seven-year-old alleged FFP breach by City. The story has been covered again and again by the BBC, the Daily Mail, Telegraph and numerous snide aticles have been writted on social media by columnists. Even the Ronaldo rape story which came out of Footy leaks was a short-lived story in the UK. City have been targeted.
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Spot on. And I don't care what anyone says but as Uli Hoeness will testify, tax evasion is a far more serious matter than breaches of some shitty arbitrary financial rules brought in by a footballing body in order to appease some of their slapped arse members
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
No news is good news, surely.
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Difficult to say as it's been rumoured for a while that this could take months before we hear anything. You have to wonder why that is though because usually when these FFP cases get referred to the higher chamber, it's nowhere near as drawn out as this. It could be that UEFA know they've dropped a bollock in not following their own process and are looking for a way out as they're worried CAS will throw it out. In addition to that, maybe they simply don't have enough evidence to assume we're guilty of anything. I honestly believe that unless there's a smoking gun somewhere that we're not aware of, the e-mails referred to in the DS articles are nowhere near enough to nail us. It's doubtful that there is though IMO because DS surely wouldn't have kept the juiciest bits out of the public domain. Someone else had it right when they said if we're to assume the e-mails are genuine, they're evidence of nothing except an internal conversation. City have always said they're out of context and perhaps there are other e-mails that DS didn't publish that prove this, ie: "Nope, we can't do that as it's disguised ownership funding but what we can do is this.....". Unless the club are bullshitting (which would be stupid), the strong statements they've put out suggest we've done nothing wrong and this is a desperate attempt at a stitch-up.
 
M18CTID said:
Spot on. And I don't care what anyone says but as Uli Hoeness will testify, tax evasion is a far more serious matter than breaches of some shitty arbitrary financial rules brought in by a footballing body in order to appease some of their slapped arse members
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Yes when the scum were forking out obscene sums of money to snaffle up the best player, nothing was said.

When they also hijacked the most promising youngsters from around the country by buying electrical goods and cars for the parents, nothing was said.

When the Edwards family were making a fortune from selling rotten meat to schools, nothing was said.

When Nike came along with a frankly ridiculous sponsorship deal, nothing was said.

We are being treated differently than the Cartel Clubs, and don’t let anybody tell you otherwise.
 
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