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

[Coatigan]

So why would they then hit us with such a severe sanction, that is what baffles me. A one year ban fine, but 2 years? And a fine? Madness

Because 2 years is the standard. If they claim we breached FFP, 2 years is the automatic punishment for that.

 

[BillyShears]

If there is no proper leak before Sunday, we will know City have won this.

Haha. Mate, can I say that with each passing day I'm more convinced we're getting the full 2 years. I've got nothing to back this up except my own natural pessimism when it comes to City.

 

[blue b4 the moon]

‘i said I’d apologise if you were cleared. You haven’t been cleared. It’s been ruled that UEFA didn’t follow due process not that you didn’t cheat’.

there you go, I’ll write it for him. The horrible snivelling knobrot

If we are found guilty he could write...I told you so, it takes one to know one and afterall I'm a cheating ex-ping-pong ****.

 

[r.soleofsalford]

Is this the same guy who would be stood near the souvenir shop/ticket office pre match with a sandwich board/A frame round his neck?

His other heartwarming Bible message was 'prepare to meet thy maker'.

I always use to shout at that fella "I`ll have 2 large white loaves a meat pie and a custard"

 

[SWP's back]

Thank fuck you aren’t on the CAS tribunal.?Mind you, you are just a sad win given less than a day ago you posted “no way are we getting a ban”

It’s entirely possible to believe that everything is on the line and that we will not receive a ban. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.

 

[SWP's back]

Haha. Mate, can I say that with each passing day I'm more convinced we're getting the full 2 years. I've got nothing to back this up except my own natural pessimism when it comes to City.

I’m with Tommie, I’m more confident by the day.

 

[g180aj]

Usually there is an end of season quick tour to Sheikh Mansour in UAE if Pep, Txiki,Soriano goes there with a Carabao cup only and a 2 year CL ban there will be "blood". And if all this happens because some of these guys was just careless with some stupid emails what do you think what Mansour will think of that?

If this is to do with how we got paid our money from Etihad and or ADUG then why would our board members be sacked? They don't work for Etihad

 

[SWP's back]

Say what you like about him

Ok then. He was a weird pedo.

 

[Bald fraud]

Reading some of these posts.

Anyone else remember the Dude who stood outside the Kippax every home game with "The End Is Nigh " around his neck,

Remember him well. He used to always say I’ve got my seat mate, not in there and point to the stand. Up there and point to the sky.

 

[Blue Maverick]

So the decision is on Monday? I can’t keep up, the pessimist in me thinks we are fucked, at first I thought we would be ok but the way 2020 is going I’m thinking not, then I’m waiting for the the call to strip us of titles etc from that period, it will be fucking open season on us.

 

[Centurions]

It’s grim. Don’t want to think about a guilty verdict. Let’s hope by Tuesday we are talking transfers, but the reality exists.

For someone who doesn't 'want to think about a guilty verdict', you're spending an awful lot of time banging on about it.

 

[Essex blue]

I was pretty confident we would get off or a suspended guilty verdict.

I started listening to the price of football pod cast and now I’m bloody nervous

Before going into CAS, UEFA were confident they have a cast iron case against us and it wasn’t based solely on FFP.

Their view was city failed to cooperate with the new investigation and that’s was why the ban was 2 years and city are pinning their hopes on UEFA failed to follow their own procedures by leaking the information before we knew

 

[Fordyboy46]

So the decision is on Monday? I can’t keep up, the pessimist in me thinks we are fucked, at first I thought we would be ok but the way 2020 is going I’m thinking not, then I’m waiting for the the call to strip us of titles etc from that period, it will be fucking open season on us.

Exactly, the fallout if we do get banned is going to be hysterical

 

[Centurions]

I was pretty confident we would get off or a suspended guilty verdict.

I started listening to the price of football pod cast and now I’m bloody nervous

Before going into CAS, UEFA were confident they have a cast iron case against us and it wasn’t based solely on FFP.

Their view was city failed to cooperate with the new investigation and that’s was why the ban was 2 years and city are pinning their hopes on UEFA failed to follow their own procedures by leaking the information before we knew

But what was it we 'failed to cooperate on'? Was it not producing Etihads accounts (we have no right to do that), or was it perhaps not giving them full access to our internal emails? We presumably have retained the 'we will not comment on stolen emails' message, I don't think UEFA can see them unless we allow them to. I'm still convinced that UEFA have just spat the dummy out in frustration at us. Yves Leterme s denial of any leak suggests to me that they got caught out and haven't got the good grace to back off.

 

[Brendan110_0]

I was pretty confident we would get off or a suspended guilty verdict.

I started listening to the price of football pod cast and now I’m bloody nervous

Before going into CAS, UEFA were confident they have a cast iron case against us and it wasn’t based solely on FFP.

Their view was city failed to cooperate with the new investigation and that’s was why the ban was 2 years and city are pinning their hopes on UEFA failed to follow their own procedures by leaking the information before we knew

A case not being based solely on FFP would be odd.

 

[Keeper!]

A case not being based solely on FFP would be odd.

And it is pure speculation.

 

[City_Sean]

For someone who doesn't 'want to think about a guilty verdict', you're spending an awful lot of time banging on about it.

I do think people need to be aware of the potential ramifications of losing though. It isn't just setting us back for two years. The reputational damage will be massive.

 

[Newman Noggs]

I'm no happy-clappy optimist but some of the doom and gloom on here is a bit lacking in perspective.

Sure, this is a major battle in a war that certain clubs and their place-men and shills in the media are waging against us, but that's all it is, one battle. If we win, it's the decisive battle, their last shot. If they win, it's not the end, we re-group, we dust ourselves down and we come back snarling and meaner.

 

[slbsn]

I was pretty confident we would get off or a suspended guilty verdict.

I started listening to the price of football pod cast and now I’m bloody nervous

Before going into CAS, UEFA were confident they have a cast iron case against us and it wasn’t based solely on FFP.

Their view was city failed to cooperate with the new investigation and that’s was why the ban was 2 years and city are pinning their hopes on UEFA failed to follow their own procedures by leaking the information before we knew

I haven't listened but will. We aren't getting a suspended sentence - for reasons I've explained many times. If CAS sides with UEFA, the breaches are serious and second offences which means they will not interfere with UEFA's sanctions.

This is not a case on co-operation. There is, in my opinion, no way a 2 year sanction is justified for a subjective cooperation charge. City are bound to be able to show co-operation.

Also if there was anything particularly problematic in terms of Etihad, City would have settled this long ago - no way the majority owners would risk contagion into another business for the sake of a ban or fine in City.

 

[nmc]

We were offered the option of a fine in return for accepting our guilt for what was described as a "technical accounting breach". Which we refused. Hence why I'm a bit dubious about ancoats'' story a few pages back as that was seemingly a better deal than the one his mate says we agreed.

Always wondered whether we declined Ceferin’s offer because we doubted his ability to deliver it (Rather than us being overly confident of our position) in the face of the G14 being hell bent on us being banned.