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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Weren't Milan one of the recent cartel that complained to UEFA that their owners don't want to pump much money into the club, so why doesn't the seedings take into account the history of each club?

manyoooo were one as well (obvs).

I know they still have to qualify in their respective League.

Did it ever happen?

As far as I know, there are two rankings now.

There's the normal 5 year one for seedings. That is essentially as it was. City are 6th.

There's a longer one which governs how part of the TV money (30% of the CL revenue distribution and 15% of the EL revenue distribution) is distributed - this is the one that gives extra credit for European victories, so City get a very small benefit for ours. City are 14th.
 
It’s all about the ‘istory clubs or rather those who were big 15 years ago. City can deal with this over time by sticking with it.
 
One day, one of the "Euro elite" will be bought up by someone who wants to spend but cant. FFP will dissapear hopefully

Happy for it to stay forever now. 10 years time we'll be a huge super power and the yesteryear clubs will still be fucking about with the 'rules'. FFP protects us forever.
 
Reading through this thread I can't help but feel people are missing the woods from the trees. Laws/rules are implemented for the lowest common denominator at all levels of society, be it rules of the road or FFP. While we are getting shafted for allegedly breaking those rules they are still rules, we can't just say the rules are shit because we have loads of money just like you can't drive at 200mph in a 60mph zone if your car is capable of it and you are a trained formula one driver.

AC Milan are mentioned a lot, when I was growing up they were football, probably still the best team I've ever seen. FFP could well have saved them, a gang of crooks got hold of that club and would have tried anything they could no matter how much danger it put the club in, FFP stepped in before things get out of control. Closer to home Chelsea owe Abramovich £1.2bn, he could call that debt in at anytime and literally shut the club down, Everton owe Moshri £350m, that would go along way to sending Everton into oblivion. Liverpool nearly failed FFP rules under the previous owners and they didn't even spend any money on players.

What I'm trying to say is for every Man City owner there are 1000000 gangsters like the guys who owned Portsmouth, Blackpool, Bury, Leeds, even Gretna fucking town. Platini being a crook doesn't change that.
 
Reading through this thread I can't help but feel people are missing the woods from the trees. Laws/rules are implemented for the lowest common denominator at all levels of society, be it rules of the road or FFP. While we are getting shafted for allegedly breaking those rules they are still rules, we can't just say the rules are shit because we have loads of money just like you can't drive at 200mph in a 60mph zone if your car is capable of it and you are a trained formula one driver.

AC Milan are mentioned a lot, when I was growing up they were football, probably still the best team I've ever seen. FFP could well have saved them, a gang of crooks got hold of that club and would have tried anything they could no matter how much danger it put the club in, FFP stepped in before things get out of control. Closer to home Chelsea owe Abramovich £1.2bn, he could call that debt in at anytime and literally shut the club down, Everton owe Moshri £350m, that would go along way to sending Everton into oblivion. Liverpool nearly failed FFP rules under the previous owners and they didn't even spend any money on players.

What I'm trying to say is for every Man City owner there are 1000000 gangsters like the guys who owned Portsmouth, Blackpool, Bury, Leeds, even Gretna fucking town. Platini being a crook doesn't change that.
The clubs you mentioned were all or are all running into problems related to borrowing, FFP should always have been about debt. We've spent money we do have as Mansour has invested his money into club shares, that's fine and should be allowed.

Even now the rags never spend more than they earn but there's nothing in the rules that's going to stop the Glazers taking out a $2.5 billion loan against their shares and making the club repay it, crippling them in the process and driving them into bankruptcy. The rules aren't fit for purpose as they're designed to protect the cartel from outside investment rather than to protect every clubs financial health.
 
Reading through this thread I can't help but feel people are missing the woods from the trees. Laws/rules are implemented for the lowest common denominator at all levels of society, be it rules of the road or FFP. While we are getting shafted for allegedly breaking those rules they are still rules, we can't just say the rules are shit because we have loads of money just like you can't drive at 200mph in a 60mph zone if your car is capable of it and you are a trained formula one driver.

AC Milan are mentioned a lot, when I was growing up they were football, probably still the best team I've ever seen. FFP could well have saved them, a gang of crooks got hold of that club and would have tried anything they could no matter how much danger it put the club in, FFP stepped in before things get out of control. Closer to home Chelsea owe Abramovich £1.2bn, he could call that debt in at anytime and literally shut the club down, Everton owe Moshri £350m, that would go along way to sending Everton into oblivion. Liverpool nearly failed FFP rules under the previous owners and they didn't even spend any money on players.

What I'm trying to say is for every Man City owner there are 1000000 gangsters like the guys who owned Portsmouth, Blackpool, Bury, Leeds, even Gretna fucking town. Platini being a crook doesn't change that.

Correct - but that doesn’t mean it applies to our club.
In fact we’ve behaved in the exact opposite manner where sheik Mansour has completely invested the money int he club - meaning he has not loaned it.

Despite the fact he’s wiped all debt out at our club and weare in a healthier position than the majority of clubs in Europe - we’re still being bollocked over ffp.

It’s simply not right.
 
Correct - but that doesn’t mean it applies to our club.
In fact we’ve behaved in the exact opposite manner where sheik Mansour has completely invested the money int he club - meaning he has not loaned it.

Despite the fact he’s wiped all debt out at our club and weare in a healthier position than the majority of clubs in Europe - we’re still being bollocked over ffp.

It’s simply not right.
You`re talking to the converted on this subject mate.
 
Reading through this thread I can't help but feel people are missing the woods from the trees. Laws/rules are implemented for the lowest common denominator at all levels of society, be it rules of the road or FFP. While we are getting shafted for allegedly breaking those rules they are still rules, we can't just say the rules are shit because we have loads of money just like you can't drive at 200mph in a 60mph zone if your car is capable of it and you are a trained formula one driver.

AC Milan are mentioned a lot, when I was growing up they were football, probably still the best team I've ever seen. FFP could well have saved them, a gang of crooks got hold of that club and would have tried anything they could no matter how much danger it put the club in, FFP stepped in before things get out of control. Closer to home Chelsea owe Abramovich £1.2bn, he could call that debt in at anytime and literally shut the club down, Everton owe Moshri £350m, that would go along way to sending Everton into oblivion. Liverpool nearly failed FFP rules under the previous owners and they didn't even spend any money on players.

What I'm trying to say is for every Man City owner there are 1000000 gangsters like the guys who owned Portsmouth, Blackpool, Bury, Leeds, even Gretna fucking town. Platini being a crook doesn't change that.
You’ve illustrated the very problem with ffp.
All the cases that you quote, Milan,Chelsea , whoever, are very different cases from our own, yet uefa attempt to tackle them all with the same ‘one size fits all’ rules, instead of adopting a pragmatic and individual approach to each case.
 
The clubs you mentioned were all or are all running into problems related to borrowing, FFP should always have been about debt. We've spent money we do have as Mansour has invested his money into club shares, that's fine and should be allowed.

Even now the rags never spend more than they earn but there's nothing in the rules that's going to stop the Glazers taking out a $2.5 billion loan against their shares and making the club repay it, crippling them in the process and driving them into bankruptcy. The rules aren't fit for purpose as they're designed to protect the cartel from outside investment rather than to protect every clubs financial health.

Chelsea are the example of an owner that is using borrowings when he also "has" the money, he could simply do what we do but he hasn't chosen too.

The debt situation is kind of dealt with by FFP, Everton are an example I used earlier, if their owner requested his money back then the repayments would result in them failing. Using Chelsea again they wouldn't be able to get into the 1.2bn debt in the first place with FFP.

Man Utd's situation is virtually impossible to do anything about, it's a case of the horse has bolted.

Nobody is arguing it's fair but it was it is, we are the one in a million and they have to build the rules based on the less fortunate.
 
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