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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DJBusinesscake said:
Ive hated Villa for years because i thought they did hahaha, hmmmm maybe i need stop believing everything i hear haha
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You're not alone in thinking they did vote for it! It does seem to be a common misconception amongst some of our fans

All things considered, I don't mind Villa or their fans but when I said that in a pub at Bournemouth away a few seasons back one City fan said something along the lines of: "Don't get me fucking started on Aston Villa. It's because of those ****s that we nearly went out of business in 1905". The thing is, he's not wrong but it was funny seeing one of our fans holding a 110+ year grudge against another club. Not that I'm any different at times but he was utterly furious!
 
philiph20 said:
I think Jonathan Agnew’s analysis on Twitter last May about Liew says it all really ‘ a sad attention seeker’, ‘ a disgusting individual’ a ‘coward’ and a ‘disgraceful journalist who’s coverage of cricket was stupid’, I think he also slipped in the C word to describe Liew , you hit the nail on the head Aggers. The Guy is a cockroach like so many in his profession.
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Good old Aggers. One would have to have done something seriously wrong to be called a **** by him
 
DJBusinesscake said:
You know he's not calling us subhuman scum right? Hes saying that we are calling others that... still i think its all click bait bollocks, and we shouldn't read this shite.
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Many people reading that will think like at me at first glance that we fans are being called subhuman scum. After all we have been called sewer rats for defending our club.
I don't know which one wrote the article but l am pretty sure he phrased it that way to suggest that we are the sub humam scum. Pretty severe when there are fans about from other clubs who gave been involved in disasters at grounds and the death of waiters hit my large pieces of concrete.

Ps l see it was Liew now.
 
Saddleworth2 said:
Whatever Manchester City have done wrong, never forget that the entire playing field was shaped by the elite of European football for their own gain. This monstrous reimagining of fairness has been obvious since 2007. So it was never about Manchester City. Whatever you think of them, the game as it has now been framed by UEFA and a privileged elite, is bent.

Martin Samuel.

One journalist has the guts to call it as it is.
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martin Samuel needs his own banner alongside the anti-uefa one. The shining light in journalism : )
 
The Daily Fail reporting that we are to be stripped of our 2014 prem title.

REVEALED: Manchester City's Premier League title in 2014 is now UNDER THREAT with potential backdated points deduction - and Raheem Sterling, Kevin De Bruyne and Aymeric Laporte could be sold


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...r-Citys-Premier-League-title-2014-THREAT.html
 
Can’t we sell our top players to our other clubs for massive fees and loan them back for 10 years? New York City pay KDB wage we break even :)
 
Joga said:
Haven’t spoke much on the forum, certainly not in a while but agree with all the sentiments.

Why the faux outrage? Why have Chelsea never received such visceral hatred, this despite their owner pumping millions in to the club, owing at least £1bn to him?

Do folk forget how poor the EPL would be if not for City and Chelsea? It would have been a procession for Man United over the last 20 years if not for these clubs.

Given the latter reason, I can’t see the league really caring all that much, nor do I think they would strip us. They know the EPL relies on money and competition for the lucrative television rights and what makes the EPL unique and sellable.
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I think you answered your own question there, Chelsea have debt and debt is good, debt is the proper way to work. owner's lending money doesnt scare the established cartel as much as owners investing money.
 
DJBusinesscake said:
You know he's not calling us subhuman scum right? Hes saying that we are calling others that... still i think its all click bait bollocks, and we shouldn't read this shite.
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I dunno have you read the ‘sex robot’ and ‘when did you lose it’ threads downstairs? He’s definitely got us on a technicality with that one.
 
Mike Cathcart said:
Many people reading that will think like at me at first glance that we fans are being called subhuman scum. After all we have been called sewer rats for defending our club.
I don't know which one wrote the article but l am pretty sure he phrased it that way to suggest that we are the sub humam scum. Pretty severe when there are fans about from other clubs who gave been involved in disasters at grounds and the death of waiters hit my large pieces of concrete.
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Regardless of him not referring to us as subhuman scum, the thing that boils my piss is him calling City fans out for defending the club. What does he expect when the club have maintained all along that they've done nothing wrong? Does he think City fans - or fans of any other club in this situation - are going to back an organisation as incompetent and corrupt as UEFA instead? "But City have been found guilty" they say. What, found guilty in a fucking kangaroo court by an organisation that so many of these pricks are more than happy to criticise on all manner of other matters?
Now I'm not saying the club definitely aren't guilty here. They could be bluffing I suppose, but given that they've been steadfast all along in their stance, until UEFA provides hard evidence in the form of a fucking bank statement showing beyond all doubt that it was disguised owner funding then they can get to fuck for me.
 
blueste41 said:
The Daily Fail reporting that we are to be stripped of our 2014 prem title.

REVEALED: Manchester City's Premier League title in 2014 is now UNDER THREAT with potential backdated points deduction - and Raheem Sterling, Kevin De Bruyne and Aymeric Laporte could be sold


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...r-Citys-Premier-League-title-2014-THREAT.html
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The key words there are potential and could. What a pile of steaming dross.
 
BobbyBoy said:
There is a lot of mixed messages in this thread and on this site. City have a turnover of circa £400m, UEFA have circa £2.7bn, if City are not state owned how is it that the weight/power/wealth of a state comes into play over a court case? Surely they are seperate or they not?
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Are you really being that dim?

we aren’t state owned however our owner has a personal fortune of nearly £20bn.
 
I see Conn has been listening to Prestwich_Blue yet continuing to be an arsehole. Does he not realise it turns his article on the receipts on it's head?
Honestly I think I would have difficulty controlling my emotions if I met the twat again. His article comparing City's attitude to UEFA to a Brexiteers attitude to the EU the other day was just frankly unbefuckingleavable. Still he's clearly working for the right paper.
I await his expose of the goings on at Moston Pallet United with interest. I think I could be waiting a long time though as he clearly is a grade one twat.
 
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blueste41 said:
The Daily Fail reporting that we are to be stripped of our 2014 prem title.

REVEALED: Manchester City's Premier League title in 2014 is now UNDER THREAT with potential backdated points deduction - and Raheem Sterling, Kevin De Bruyne and Aymeric Laporte could be sold


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...r-Citys-Premier-League-title-2014-THREAT.html
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"May", "could", and "may"
 
TedofChume said:
Just wanted to add this article I stumbled on on the NY Times website:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/sports/psg-uefa-ffp.html

In summary, Yves Leterme let PSG get away with it, Cunha Rodrigues (UEFA) went ballistic, but Yves Leterme said his objection was too late.

Yves Leterme is behind City's punishment. I would have thought the above action by the same man would set a precedent of how alleged inflated deals are dealt with (ie ignored). I think it totally undermines everything he had said about City. Hopefully, City can use the information the NY Times based this on.
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It is fascinating how they can manipulate their own rules to suit whatever agenda they fancy.

We seem to be the one they finally ageeed on.
 
M18CTID said:
Regardless of him not referring to us as subhuman scum, the thing that boils my piss is him calling City fans out for defending the club. What does he expect when the club have maintained all along that they've done nothing wrong? Does he think City fans - or fans of any other club in this situation - are going to back an organisation as incompetent and corrupt as UEFA instead? "But City have been found guilty" they say. What, found guilty in a fucking kangaroo court by an organisation that so many of these pricks are more than happy to criticise on all manner of other matters?
Now I'm not saying the club definitely aren't guilty here. They could be bluffing I suppose, but given that they've been steadfast all along in their stance, until UEFA provides hard evidence in the form of a fucking bank statement showing beyond all doubt that it was disguised owner funding then they can get to fuck for me.
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Very well said. Anyone who writes those words simply cannot understand what it means to support a football team. Of course, in the absence of any firm evidence to the contrary, City fans’ default position on going to be to defend the club against UEFA. To assume otherwise displays a discernible lack of understanding of the backstory to this last week’s events
 
This is a slightly off-topic link, it’s about Amazon’s rise and it’s ability to leverage the insane amount of data they collect from Kindle, fire stick, ring, Alexa and the marketplace.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/CLQYZENMBI/amazon-data
it’s a long read, but good.

but there’s a comment about halfway through from a EU competition watchdog investigating Amazon’s practises of data use and sidelining partners and rivals:
‘We would never accept in a football match that one team was also judging the game,”

... ironic. A EU competition watchdog investigating a cabal, holding up football as an example of something that would never be allowed to occur to itself.
 
blueste41 said:
The Daily Fail reporting that we are to be stripped of our 2014 prem title.

REVEALED: Manchester City's Premier League title in 2014 is now UNDER THREAT with potential backdated points deduction - and Raheem Sterling, Kevin De Bruyne and Aymeric Laporte could be sold


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...r-Citys-Premier-League-title-2014-THREAT.html
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What a monstrosity of a website. Designed so the reader only has time to digest the headlines and bullet-point propaganda before the migraine kicks in.
 
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