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

[waspish]

Funny uefa changed ffp to let new owners spend as much as they want if those same rules were around whne we started our spending all this shit would be irrelevant.

 

[salfordbluetrue]

The transfer window has not even opened yet and the yanks are at it ` The investigators recommend` this threat designed to ruin City`s window yet again, UEFA has it`s own problems the more it divorces itself from the law the higher the drop from the hangs mans noose, not that that will bother the yanks

 

[PrezIke]

The reality is that nothing is guaranteed in court cases like this. They rumble on forever and the outcome is a lottery.

Problem is winning in court isn't only about winning legally when you are a public institution or organisation. Hence why settlements are preferred.

If our way is to go dirty it sure would be interesting to watch unfold that's for sure. Would solidify "the base" "us against the world" that many of us justifiably feel, doubling down, Trump-style. Whether that would work here is not so clear to me, if I'm being honest. Are there no potential downsides to this approach?

 

[EL APACHE TEVEZ]

Well boot us out who gives a fuck,stick the champions league up your arse,you fuckin leeches.

 

[Machiavelli]

If its true he has gone its a fucking shame and frankly disgusting as one of the trolls who was constantly abusing him had his posts reported on more than one occasion and for whatever reason was allowed to continue.

From the forum rules:

• Please treat the moderators with respect, and don't derail threads by questioning their decisions. Any issues with moderation should be brought to Ric rather than aired publicly.

;-)

 

[Wretched Vengeance]

Absolutely, 100% agree. Who was it on here who was ‘taking issue’ with PB, just out of interest?

Have a quick look for the City Matters thread. I only had to read a few pages to have an idea of who it might be. I had no idea until he started a thread saying he'd had enough.

 

[blueinsa]

From the forum rules:

• Please treat the moderators with respect, and don't derail threads by questioning their decisions. Any issues with moderation should be brought to Ric rather than aired publicly.

;-)

Bravo. The idiot abusing and trolling was Chris Smithson @chesterbells

 

[jimharri]

Just trying to make the point that whilst many on here talk about loving not being in the CL the players feel exactly the opposite. We will still be here whatever happens and whatever they throw at us. The players? Not so much.

So; you just pulled that figure out of thin air then, yeah?

 

[avoidconfusion]

I get this attitude as I'd like to share it, but you can kiss competing for the PL title goodbye forever if the club actually stopped caring about it as the players, coaches and managers do.

Oh please. Of course the club won't stop caring about it, did I say that?

 

[dom]

No mate I’m just being an unfunny ****. :-)

Good man!...

 

[Dubai Blue]

Our situation is different to theirs in that we did not disclose that our owners or His Highness or whomever was fronting up 7/8ths of the Etihad cash, and that had UEFA known that was the case, we would have been hit with more severe sanctions. Those will be the grounds used to differentiate our case from PSG’s

And our response would be "prove it"

 

[Tracking back]

How can financial fair play claim to have the welfare of a football club at the forefront of it's campaign when teams like Bolton are on the rails?

The pretence is laughable. The only reason F.F.P. was brought in was to prevent M.C.F.C from achieving European dominance.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

It's been a witch hunt against City from the very beginning of ffp. We all know it was brought in for the sole purpose of stopping us and they have failed. We shouldn't just go to CAS if charged, but to the highest Court in Europe as well. This scam that is ffp needs to be challenged fully for the corrupt cartel protecting sham that it is.

 

[cleavers]

The idiot abusing and trolling was Chris Smithson

Who was banned for it.

 

[PrezIke]

Oh please. Of course the club won't stop caring about it, did I say that?

Like I said before, I do not give a fuck about the Champions League anymore. City will take them to the courts anyway but even if this does happen, I literally do not give a fuck.

mate not trying to have a beef. You said you don't care and made the connection. If we don't care do we not think that will affect the players desire to be here?

 

[blueinsa]

Who was banned for it.

Thanks for the clarification.

 

[avoidconfusion]

mate not trying to have a beef. You said you don't care and made the connection. If we don't care do we not think that will affect the players desire to be here?

The club will assemble the best team of lawyers money can get and will fight this anyway. Khaldoon already pretty much said as much before. And even if we do get punished I cannot see them ban us from the CL for more than 1 season if at all. Can't see it happening.

 

[Saddleworth2]

So here we are the day after one of the finest days in our history talking and worrying about this shit. I wish we could lance this boil once and for all and either admit wrong doing and tak3 our medicine or throw the entire might of our legal arm at them and have it out in court. I am fucking sick of us being called liars and cheats.

 

[cleavers]

Thanks for the clarification.

NP, but we'd rather keep this thread on topic, and if PB no longer wishes to post, that's up to him, its a loss, but its his choice.

 

[Parisian]

But he’s a good journalist apparently.
Sounds like another bitter little **** to me.

He is a good journalist.

I didn't know him before he launched the whole revelations about UEFA trying to corner PSG by using retroactive devaluation of our sponsors. I had pretty much the same reactions as can be seen here. Truth be told, he has some very good inside sources from UEFA.

You shouldn't take his informations as a wish or witch hunt. You should take it as being the true reflection of UEFA will.

Anyway, this whole story only highlights more how stupid that FFP is. You are under alert of being banned for doing something deemed "illegal" or "ethically wrong", only because the illegal rules prevent you from doing "legal" or "ethically right" business.

No doubt, that spanish (+ Bayern + Juve) lobby is powerful.