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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domalino said:
That's bad news if true. Always nore likely to succeed on the facts if they're on your side.

Also it means that even if we win we will still be guilty.

I'm resting my hopes that we have actually not broken the rules they claim on the old statement from ages back when the club said they supplied proof of innocence and UEFA have ignored it and first said theyd take it to a higher court...I think I'm remembering that rightly.
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I don’t think we ever stood a chance of getting by FFP. I don’t know the detail, but my gut says we played by their rules and they moved goalposts. They did it in the previous sanction and as khaldoon said, we took the ‘pinch’.

I think this is dick swinging at the very highest level and it’s now about 2 huge corporations going toe to toe.

Whatever happens this battle is going to be epic. Absolutely fucking huge.
 
Well, one thing is certain.

And that is our club is 100% box office fascinating. Never a dull moment in the MCFC universe.

What a rollercoaster we have been on these last 10 years. It looks like the ride is gonna get rough in the coming months.

I trust the owners will take UEFA to the fucking cleaners over this.

Which ever way this plays out will see UEFA fucked, in my opinion.
 
hedkandi said:
by all accounts this took us by surprise. If I was in expecting a charge of some description and it took my lawyers by surprise then questions have to be asked. wasnt there a 8 strong legal team meeting with uefa last week?
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IMHO utter nonsense The investigative panel had recommended a year ban, took it to the chamber who were never going to not agree they conspired to impncrease it to 2 knowing full well City would go to CAS They are gambling that it’s reduced I can’t believe the club would be surprised know that Just read the statement it actually says disappointment but not surprised
 
OntarioBlue said:
If we don’t appeal AND WIN it will hurt us enormously. The reputational damage will cause all our sponsors to look at their deals and some will walk away. Deals that would have been enormous money generators, such as ground naming rights and shirts sponsorships are suddenly significantly less attractive to Corporations who understandably will not want to be associated with a corrupt brand.

Within the Club can the people who got us this place, Khaldoon, Soriano etc survive. Surely somebody’s head has to roll. Will the owner lose interest in having to constantly fight the cartel and walk ?

Will Pep stay ? Will our star players stay ? Can we attract new talent? Can we afford new talent ?

This may all sound gloom and doom but this has the potential to be enormously damaging, if not fatal to the Club. When all is said and done CFG is a business and these kind of things have sent many business down in the past.
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i dont think there would be to much damage regarding sponsors,there only after one thing and thats pushing the brand, if we keep doing the business on field domesticaly there getting what they want,football has a short memory and chelsea have just served a ban but the sponsors stayed with them, say we get a one year ban in 3 or 4 years the general public wouldnt have a clue what it was for and for how long
 
paulchapo said:
This is spot on......and no it wasn't the dog's name.....I think lol!

Any fool can spin a lie and no matter how outrageous that lie it sticks. Even if concrete proof is shown to disprove the lie you still get the " No smoke without fire" whispers.

To be honest the dippers rags and the rest will always say it no matter what the outcome.
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They already did before this. Unfortunately other clubs fans bought into this shit when we were the club that finally broke the cartel. We showed all Villa/Newcastle/Everton’s that it could be them next. They could hit the jackpot like we did. They were that stupid they bought into the FFP crap and that was that for them. If we lose this it will hit is very very hard.
 
paulchapo said:
We need a whistleblower to break ranks and tell the truth who is behind all this shit, the officials are just puppets for the cartel. Is anyone brave enough?
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I think Martín Samuel has made a pretty strong statement as to who is behind this. Add Real Madrid and Bayern Munich to the “Traditional Red Alliance” and I think you have the accusers, the prosecution and the judges.
 
Steve ireland said:
https://www.lawinsport.com/topics/item/the-deficiency-of-fairness-in-financial-fair-play

Galatasaray v UEFA18

During 2014/15 Galatasaray exceeded the acceptable loss by over €130m, thus breaching FFP and the settlement agreement they had reached with the CFCB. The CFCB Adjudicatory Chamber excluded Galatasaray from UEFA competition for two seasons. Galatasaray appealed the decision to CAS arguing that FFP is illegal under EU Competition law.19The CAS Panel roundly rejected the arguments of Galatasaray and was critical of the club for "relying heavily on press articles" and suggesting "that the main objective of the break-even rule is to impede small clubs" ability to invest and recruit new talented players’.20 It was found that the objective of FFP is as argued by UEFA - to promote financial stability of clubs.
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We wouldn’t be challenging FFP in CAS, so I am not sure what sort of point you are making here.
 
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