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

[nmc]

The state of some of those comments underneath that Mirror article - this one was quality though:

On the money that reply.

 

[bluestreak]

Fuck me. I thought the dippers were deluded, but they have nothing on this guy. For example, he supports VOX, a political party,that calls for the removal of all muslims from Spain.

A modern day El Cid perhaps. (in his own mind anyway) ;)

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Tebas at today’s Q&A (try and read it without getting wound up):

'I did read the interview,' said Tebas. 'I think there is a lot of ignorance about certain things, firstly about how financial control works in European football and ignorance on regards to financial doping. I am not at all racist. I have no issues about ethnicity.

'How can I be racist if two of my grandchildren are Arab? I would be a racist against my own grandchildren! That just shows the ignorance and how easy it is to say things without knowing all the details and people's background. You are talking the ethnicity, it's not true.

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Tebas responded by rubbishing insinuations he is racist and accused Al-Mubarak of ignorance
'People get confused when I say they are opening up the petrol and gas and finance it like state clubs. It's not the first time I've spoken about it - we had (Roman) Abramovich at Chelsea - they had a lot of losses and he covered it by putting in more money, but he doesn't do it any more.

'Jealous? That is not true. Real or Barcelona have never been state clubs, they have never received support from the state. They are clubs which have not been financed like, for example, PSG when the CAS said they had inflated their sponsorship with Qatar.

'Manchester City are pending a sanction and that is also related to sponsorship. Real Madrid and Barcelona have never had a situation like that in their history; they have never been financed by the Spanish state. I recommend he goes and studies the rules and regulations more.'

Tebas is not a figure who will shy away from making big statements and he took aim at UEFA for their plans to restructure the Champions League from 2024. He claimed it is a move that is worrying the European game and accused UEFA of 'killing football'.

'I think phenomenon of the state clubs are attacking or controlling the institution itself,' said Tebas.

'UEFA should try to stop this financial doping. The big clubs want to change the competition so they can get more money so they are able to compete with this phenomena.

'At the moment it is a very dangerous change to a new competition In my opinion it is absolutely lethal for professional football in Europe, the big leagues and the small leagues. It will kill off all the domestic TV revenues for smaller clubs.'

He left out the bit about the club he used to be President of being embroiled in the worst match-fixing scandal football has seen (so far) and his support for one of the most extremist fascist groups in Europe who are currently campaigning to bulldoze mosques and evict Muslims from Spain.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Surprise surprise - https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/liverpool-chairman-tom-werner-speaks-16230527

In this story Werner claims that the Financial Fair Play regulations were an important factor in them buying Liverpool in 2010. But the rules didn't even exist then. What a pile of shit. On a more positive note this article moves us a step closer to confirming how the deails of UEFA's investigations committe were leaked to the New York Times.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

In this story Werner claims that the Financial Fair Play regulations were an important factor in them buying Liverpool in 2010. But the rules didn't even exist then. What a pile of shit.

Nothing new there then . Dipper 'istree is the equivalent of Aesop's Fables.

 

[salfordbluetrue]

As oakie says just above, he was almost certainly asked during an interview. His answer is quite neutral - it's the Mirror that have shoved in the City stuff, not the Liverpool man.

Anyone who has any understanding of the media would recognize the question for what it was , an opening to bash a rival, and he took it up he associated City with cheating , guilt and punishment, The one thing that stood out from his comment for me though was he invested in liverpool because of FFP. It`s ease of use to move money out of the club and the punishment of those who oppose

 

[Tez Tosterone]

Not too much in that other than the expected bile from the Echo. But it tickles me that Werner says they invested in Liverpool on the basis of FFP. Translated from the American it means " we invested in Liverpool in the firm belief that no competition would be tolerated"

Hypocrisy of the highest order from Warner.

Did they tap up VVD and got found out. Yep they did.

They er........... apologized.

 

[bobbyowenquiff]

Apart from Standard Chartered being fined $1.5 billion for money laundering for Iran their secondary sleeve sponsor Western Union were fined $586 million in 2017 and another $60 million in 2018 for money laundering for criminals.

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-u...g-wire-fraud-to-pay-586-million-idUKKBN1532RL

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-u...laundering-probe-for-60-million-idUKKBN1ET24Y

Liverpool fans can try and deflect as much as they want. These are two of their biggest sponsors who have admitted laundering money for the regime in Iran and in the second case (Western Union) handling cash from people smuggling. It is impossible to believe that none of this dirty money has not made its way to Liverpool FC via Fenway Sports Group. Those mouthing off about human rights are hypocrites of the highest order. Can you imagine how much stick we would get if Etihad had done this or to be fair if United's main sponsor Chevrolet had done something similar?

 

[mayo31]

I tired now. Its all just words and bluster

Someone actually do something. Either put up or shut up.

Grown men acting like playground children. It is actually embarrassing

 

[KS55]

I have been digging into Swiss law. Arbitration, which is what CAS offer is subject to a statutory code. Quite long and complicated but the essence is that there are strict procedural rules to ensure fairness. You can appeal CAS decisions to the Swiss supreme court. BUT..... the supreme court almost never overturns the verdict of CAS on a substantive matter. It concentrates on whether the procedural rules were adhered to. Hmmm......