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

[Exeter Blue I am here]

It's not the same subject though as UEFA bending its rules or acting unreasonably to try and stop us.

Also, not one knows if a legal challenge to FFP would or would not work and they din't even discuss the Swiss Court.

Oh and the idea that FFP is not anti-competitive when it comes to preventing a club invest so that it can compete is still bullshit IMO. On-going overspending and investing to build something up are two different things. If FFP does not make proper allowance for investment, it's anti-competitive in my view.

City invested and moved to profitability and are not the club currently inflating the transfer or wages market.

I know all of those things and I agree completely. My anger and frustration is not with City, but this whole bent charade, and I have zero faith in us ever getting a fair or competent hearing. Who will want to be the individual who lets the “cheats” “get away with it”?

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

Castor Semenya (sp) lost her case at CAS and she then took it to the Swiss Supreme Court who then adjudicated in her favour. I heard a lawyer on TV say that city will be taking this all the way and that means if we have no joy with CAS we will take it further, as Semenya did.

Had she signed a legally binding MOU?

 

[Sir peace frog]

What's the craic at the moment then?

nobody has a fucking clue,loads of people trying to sound like "hot shot" lawyers,its quite odd

 

[Delboy352]

It's not the same subject though as UEFA bending its rules or acting unreasonably to try and stop us.

Also, not one knows if a legal challenge to FFP would or would not work and they din't even discuss the Swiss Court.

Oh and the idea that FFP is not anti-competitive when it comes to preventing a club invest so that it can compete is still bullshit IMO. On-going overspending and investing to build something up are two different things. If FFP does not make proper allowance for investment, it's anti-competitive in my view.

City invested and moved to profitability and are not the club currently inflating the transfer or wages market.

Ironically, one of the main protagonists against us is Sky. You know, the Company that spent (invested) multi millions, had debts every year, but are now profitable...

 

[Chappie]

What's the craic at the moment then?

Something has come to light that most of us already knew
And all the pussies on here are jumping up and down

 

[ganganvince]

Had she signed a legally binding MOU?

I am not a legal expert but thought that any terms in contracts etc that sought to remove your statutory tights were irrelevant.

 

[roxy]

I once signed a contract of employment that stated I couldn't work in my field for 9 months upon leaving them.

However when I left after 7 years I challenged that in court and won.
Any clause whether agreed to or not has to be lawful.

That’s the point surely.

City use SAP I assume & SAP will have a user-group. If the committee of that user-group signed a MOU with SAP that their members couldn’t pursue legal avenues in the event of losses due to software issues then that may well be binding but it doesn’t necessarily make it legally enforceable.

 

[pudge]

Something has come to light that most of us already knew
And all the pussies on here are jumping up and down

What's that though? I haven't kept up

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

Yes, Stefan has a legal background and is our resident font of legal knowledge on Twitter. I’ve asked him the latter question (does the MOU prevent us from contesting FFP disputes and punishments only, or does it extend to challenging FFP on anti-competitive grounds as well), but I haven’t had a reply yet

You don't need to wait.

The hacked files stated Khaldoon would rather pay £30m to the best thirty lawyers in the world?

Our chairman certainly seemed to be of the belief there is legal recourse if expulsion from the competition ever came?

 

[Exeter Blue I am here]

See that’s interesting, the fact the entire establishment hates us makes me support city even more, and my dad raised me with the that in mind considering the we are the only part of the family that don’t support the rags. The success just makes them hate us more and in turn makes me love us more

Amen to that brother. I’ve never felt such boiling resentment toward so many people - UEFA, the G14, dippers, rags, pundits, the media - nor so much desire to defend the club I’ve loved all my life. Reining in my temper with these people is becoming harder and harder though. What we’re having to put up with, from the media in particular, is unprecedented, and that City employee getting a corrosive substance thrown in her face was a perfect encapsulation of the consequences of what these irresponsible, spiteful, click driven wankers are orchestrating