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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gordondaviesmoustache said:
That we’re supremely self-confident about the outcome.
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Sounds good to me GDM. My only reservation is that having once been unsuccessfully involved in what the Americans would call a “class action” against a government department, I have a healthy mistrust of our legal system. In a nutshell we won what was a slam dunk case and then won the appeal as well, only to end up losing the second appeal to what was unquestionably a politically motivated decision. If I was UEFA I might view hammering City and then gambling on the whim of a judge, as the least worst option......
 
Delphinho said:
We sound very confident. If we were given a transfer ban we would just appeal it, and we would have the summer to get a few new players. Our squad is so good, with a mix of young and more experienced players, that we could actually cope with a transfer ban for 2 windows.
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Oh ffs.
 
Ardwick Green Blue said:
Lots of guesswork being passed off as informed comment I reckon. No-one knows how this will play out but the calls for the club to go legal and take UEFA on in the courts are particularly misguided in my view. If it was 100% certain we would win then we would have done this first time round. The fact is it would takes years to reach a conclusion after appeals and so on and the risk is after all that we would lose and then we would be finished as a top level club.
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Not arsed, let it take years for a conclusion got all the time in the world me,hey I waited 38 fuckin years to see city win a trophy,so I’m defo not bothered what the bent bastards at uefa are trying to do to us.
 
Ardwick Green Blue said:
Lots of guesswork being passed off as informed comment I reckon. No-one knows how this will play out but the calls for the club to go legal and take UEFA on in the courts are particularly misguided in my view. If it was 100% certain we would win then we would have done this first time round. The fact is it would takes years to reach a conclusion after appeals and so on and the risk is after all that we would lose and then we would be finished as a top level club.
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I don't think we could go to a court of law over this? We would go to CAS, in the event of sanction's. We could of course challenge the legality of ffp in the law courts, but that's pointless at this time with the Dupont case verdict seemingly due soon.
 
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karen7 said:
First time around they moved the goal posts after we had complied so we failed,no need to go to court at the time,as Kaldoon said we take the pinch,now they are trying to trash our reputation and we can't let them do it,we will not be finished as a top level club so long as we dominate the prem
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Are you confident we will be ok Karen?
You know I'm the world's worst worrier
 
I've been wanting us to stop booking the CL anthem but after this I will boo louder than ever.

I would LOVE to get to a CL final and just turn our back on the anthem.
Fuck uefa.
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
I’ve normally got a witty riposte; but on this occasion, nothing!
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Back to your original point: you seem very assured we have the very best people on this and that we'll win, no question. I'm not so sure and my gut instinct is as follows: someone, somewhere, hasn't been quite as diligent as they should have been and this has subsequently left us open to the court case. You're right, we have some very, very smart people at the top. It's the ones underneath that worry me.
 
Why would UEFA want to hammer City? Real Madrid, La Liga, Bayern maybe. Any competitive rival. I think City and PSG are a hassle for UEFA, but it's the club's we've hurt who are really after us, not UEFA. I don't see what UEFA have to gain by bashing City. The issue is historical. There's no ongoing FFP swindle going on because City have booming revenues and are profitable as Der Spiegel recognised. If we were regulating an industry and we were presented with a club that is financial strong and but that presented a historic problem, we'd look at it a lot less seriously than an ongoing "offender." I think the worst case scenario is limited.
 
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