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

[Zabbasbeard]

City unequivocal rebuttal is impressive and I have faith in our management. Turning our backs on the Chimps League is not the answer. Support the club, the team and the manager with everything you’ve we’ve got.

 

[aguero93:20]

We have more chance of David Silva jumping on Vinny's back and winning the Grand National than we have of winning Uefa's Champions' League. They don't want us in, they want us punished for transgressing rules that were made up after we complied with the rules/paid the fines. The whole Uefa/CL set up stinks to the heavens. We get through next week's 2nd leg, and there'll be another hurdle in the quarter finals. Get past that to the semis and as sure as croissants are croissants they'll put in Señor Lahoz to make sure the LotG are applied as Uefa meant them to be applied.

Maybe before he had all the calf injuries...

 

[Postman Pep]

Yeah - we know it’s coming and UEFA have the power to impose a transfer ban. I can also see FIFA banning us from the Champions League too for FFP breaches.

no that's the FA ,FIFA will dock us points in the premier league

 

[prestonibbo_mcfc]

I’m not sure why you think he’ll be able to take on UEFA. They’re a law unto themselves & I don’t think we’ve any chance of winning this battle. They want us out of Europe & they want the clubs with the global audiences to have a free run. We’re becoming too dangerous

They'll be that much goal post moving, it'll definitely be jumpers for goalposts.

 

[cookster]

Perhaps it's an issue of Abu Dhabi subsidising their state owned entities rather than subsidising us.

Whats that go to do with UEFA. Hundreds if not thousands of Football sponsorship comes directly from state money.

 

[joe salford]

Prove these allegations false, win the frikking bent competition and just as we get presented with the trophy, refuse to accept it, give back medals and just amble over to city fans. Fuck em.

 

[Citizen1961]

If UEFA made one wrong move on this they could potentially be ruined. This is highly likely to be a co-ordinated face saving exercise. I could of course be wrong.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I think it depends on whether Liverpool win the Europa League.

Ah, the memories...

 

[cibaman]

I think the majority view that the investigation marks a new low in relations between City and UEFA may just be way off target. We are all assuming that UEFA are out to do us to appease a baying cartel while we are arming ourselves with writs and the like to give UEFA a working over in the courts.

It might be as well to remember that we have sailed through the FFP assessments ever since 2014, that the first DS revelations appeared last November and that UEFA was as much a target as City because they had conspired with us to circumvent the regulations they had introduced. Infantino refuted the claims while City argued that the claims were based on emails which were obtained illegally and would not comment. There was no conflict between City and UEFA then, but the usual hacks reported that UEFA would take the strongest action if the claims could be proven. This could be the usual nonsense our press prints.

Since then it has emerged that these emails have been produced - maybe even fabricated - by a Potuguese who specialises not only in hacking emails, but also in using them to extort money through blackmail. This charming gentleman had fled to Hungary but only this week found that the Hungarians had agreed to extradite him to Portugal to face trial for these activities. He seems a most unlikely witness to provoke a virtual civil war in club football. In a post on Monday I raised the question of whether he had been foolish enough to try and blackmail City! I wonder now if he has been daft enough to try and blackmail certain UEFA officials as well!

So, UEFA announce an investigation of "reported" FFP breaches, City welcome the process but suggest it will amount to no more than another glance at our accounts, which have already been shown to be "full and complete" and the investigation shows that FFP has succeeded in transforming City into a model of financial propriety. The only wrongdoing is that of a criminal hacker and blackmailer who goes to jail for a very long time and DS has to settle out of court for extensive damage to the reputation of City - and UEFA!

That should deter future troublemakers from dipping into the (murky?!) world football (and UEFA) finance.

If the emails were fabricated, wouldn't the response of the club have been entirely different? Including a massive libel action commenced against Der Spiegel, court injunctions etc. Surely we'd have used every legal option at our disposal to have stopped this in its tracks. Why would we allow it to gain traction and reach this stage it it was entirely fabricated?

 

[Barcon]

Fuck me. I nip out to the shops and 27 pages of this shit pops up.
Fuck em, I hope when we win it this year we bring a small furnace onto the pitch and melt the bastard thing down.