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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Cobwebcat said:
It is.

I was listening to the Why Always Us podcast yesterday from The Athletic and they had some French guy on the show saying UEFA are very very confident that CAS will find us guilty.

This, after I was equally positive that we would win, tempered my confidence.

Now TH has me more positive again.

Who knows...hope is good...even false hope is quite good. He’s obviously heard something good but doesn’t want to say.
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Damien Comolli, or whatever he's called. Now at Fenerbache and used to be with the dippers, and he was as popular there as the Sun. I think the bloke who did the pod (Ormstein) is an Arsenal fan and find it hard to believe they are putting this sort of thing out as a City podcast.
 
Rochdale Blue said:
Damien Comolli, or whatever he's called. Now at Fenerbache and used to be with the dippers, and he was as popular there as the Sun. I think the bloke who did the pod (Ormstein) is an Arsenal fan and find it hard to believe they are putting this sort of thing out as a City podcast.
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I don’t see how anyone can really know unless they have an inside line to CAS, and even then we’d need to know what all 3 judges think, and I can’t believe both sides have submitted all their stuff yet.

I’m sure we’re optimistic because we’re getting excellent lawyers and I’m sure they’re saying we have a sound case. The fact UEFA are apparently going to lawyer up as well suggests it’s going to be down to the judges, because I’m sure they’re saying they’ve got a case too and will argue it eloquently and convincingly.

The fact we’re in this mess is because people on our board/ staff had misplaced confidence about our position. They said stupid stuff in emails that should’ve been kept well away from official club platforms. Since we have form for saying stupid stuff I hope this time any briefings are based on better information.

I sincerely hope we win in court because the whole structure of UEFA isn’t fit for purpose, but with so much information on this case outside public scrutiny it’s impossible to know who has what cards.

This is even one of those cases where we could win but we don’t adequately clear our name, so we don’t really do enough to bat away all the crap we’ve had thrown at us.
 
Rochdale Blue said:
Damien Comolli, or whatever he's called. Now at Fenerbache and used to be with the dippers, and he was as popular there as the Sun. I think the bloke who did the pod (Ormstein) is an Arsenal fan and find it hard to believe they are putting this sort of thing out as a City podcast.
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Exactly what I thought. Pretty confusing.
 
argyle said:
I do really, really want to believe those that seem to have contacts around people at City and believe the bullishness that we'll win at CAS.

However is it fair to say they were bullish that we wouldn't be found guilty by UEFA in the first place?

I have no faith in anything around UEFA and am expecting the worst from CAS but that City will fight on in the courts.
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Probably not fair. It was Sam Lee that was confident but he didn’t say it had come from City. Our statement indicates we knew it was coming.
 
Until CAS give their judgement everything said is conjecture and opinion. Some well informed but most not. The test for City is whether the owners are prepared to take it go another court after CAS as being slightly cynical on how these things work, we will end up with some or all of the penalties imposed. Faces have to be saved. I cannot believe that we will walk away from CAS as victors. Obviously this is just an opinion, but it's based on 60 years of watching how this world works. Follow the money
 
Franny's toilet roll said:
Until CAS give their judgement everything said is conjecture and opinion. Some well informed but most not. The test for City is whether the owners are prepared to take it go another court after CAS as being slightly cynical on how these things work, we will end up with some or all of the penalties imposed. Faces have to be saved. I cannot believe that we will walk away from CAS as victors
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Plenty have won there, partially or totally.
 
Given the quiet manner we tend to proceed with things, I find it difficult to comprehend that we would be so publicly vehement in our denials of wrongdoing, and have such a forceful commitment to appeal, if we had doubt about our guilt. I believe we will take this as high as it can go, if we do not receive a favourable CAS verdict.
 
Franny's toilet roll said:
Until CAS give their judgement everything said is conjecture and opinion. Some well informed but most not. The test for City is whether the owners are prepared to take it go another court after CAS as being slightly cynical on how these things work, we will end up with some or all of the penalties imposed. Faces have to be saved. I cannot believe that we will walk away from CAS as victors. Obviously this is just an opinion, but it's based on 60 years of watching how this world works. Follow the money
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Not sure that’s how CAS works. As far as I know it’s completely independent from booefa?
 
Rochdale Blue said:
That interview with Comolli was originally on a regular Athletic pod by Ormstein and Chapman a few days earlier. So much for their so-called City coverage.
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Have to say, I've ditched The Athletic over their coverage of this. I clicked to unsubscribe about three weeks ago, and though I still have access, I haven't visited it since. Was very disappointed by an almost total failure to concede that there may even be a City side to this story, let alone explore what it might be.

I won't be back.
 
petrusha said:
Have to say, I've ditched The Athletic over their coverage of this. I clicked to unsubscribe about three weeks ago, and though I still have access, I haven't visited it since. Was very disappointed by an almost total failure to concede that there may even be a City side to this story, let alone explore what it might be.

I won't be back.
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Agree. Not just on this subject but overall the content is poor. Shame really as they signed up some decent writers.
 
vincent said:
Agree. Not just on this subject but overall the content is poor. Shame really as they signed up some decent writers.
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As much as Qatari Harris and DeLooney lead a Eastern-led line... Athletic have led an agreesive media surge from the American shores. Can't think of of any clubs with American owners... oh wait.

Football has turned into one big political fight. Barca and Real became too powerful, Bayern became too arrogant. United got too greedy. The rest of the big clubs are trying to manouvre to fit in with them and global plans
 
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