not so ? the governing body of european football (uefa) don't and will keep it in house and set the rules to the boards mandate unless it crosses over into a police matter. just like Fifa and the crimes that some members did filter money into other accounts out side of the one's they was working for
the FBI should have locked up michel platini and many more ? but only a slap on the back of the hand and free to live as normal and because of Fifa took away their jobs it was done and forgotten about
Controversial take...
Some of our fans will be secretly annoyed if we don’t get banned. You know the types. Those always desperate to be contrarian and appear unbiased. It’ll ruin some of their potential ‘I told you so’ blog entries that’s for sure.
I would like the Mansour to flex his financial muscles and create his own competition. Let the G14 slope off and play each other time and time again like the SPFL. (What a treat that is!) He could offer prize money way more than the opposition comps and allow the world's media to broadcast it for far less. The G14 would start out ok but would wither and die in time. It can be done!
If. Do you think the Der Spiegel emails suggest we have? Most City fans have over the months come up with various explanations as to why they are not damning. Even David Conn who politically does not like our owner, argued that the Etihad deal amounted to state sponsorship. Even if the UAE state did indeed finance a shortfall as long as City have in place a sponsorship agreement of £60m pa with etihad then that feels fair. If you are Der Spiegel and you want to damage a Sheikh then you can dress it up as deception but it needn't be that at all.
None left. Delooney ate them all!Well we’ve heard nothing directly from the club on this, but it sounds plausible because why would Ceferin be at the Shakhtar home game back in November? I doubt he was just road testing the vol-au-vents!
Jesus, hop offProject's dick.
The guy quotes a few of CAS' old verdicts, quotes the same Latin phrase "de novo" and people take what he says as gospel and for some reason defend him from any rebuttal (as you're doing)
for me he's acting like a bit of a dramatis personae.
If City felt that FFP was bollocks then the club should have challenged it when it was introduced. They didn't, they've agreed to Uefa's rules so it's absurd now that people are still trotting the line of "it's unfair".
This whole blaming other clubs is a nonsense. It's a competitive, multi billion industry where finishing fourth is a guaranteed £100m with CL qualification. The idea that other clubs are going to sit idly by and want City to get off freely if we have broken rules is a nonsense.
This is just a nothing post. People have to be aware of the ramifications of what happens next if we are banned. Nobody wants it. But its also worth pointing out, if the ban stands then City have fucked up. There won't be any defending it.
Let’s not forget that Der Spiegel also claimed in their mini-series of anti-City articles that we’d done something dodgy when signing Jadon Sancho from Watford, yet the FA concluded there was no case for us to answer. Around the same time, they claimed a multiple Champions League winner had failed a drugs test following a Champions League final but didn’t get a ban. However, upon publishing the full story - the player in question was Sergio Ramos - it turned out nothing of the sort happened.
Much of what Der Spiegel publishes is sensationalist trumped-up bollocks, and while I don’t doubt that they sometimes get it right, they’re the German equivalent of The Sun for me.
Controversial take...
Some of our fans will be secretly annoyed if we don’t get banned. You know the types. Those always desperate to be contrarian and appear unbiased. It’ll ruin some of their potential ‘I told you so’ blog entries that’s for sure.
Better than playing in a comp that's rigged for the few. They want City's cash but god forbid we ever become a world renowned brand! I support City and always will. Playing against Everton, Leeds, Birmingham City, West Ham will become just as big in time as playing Rags, Dippers and The Arse now!This is where this G14 cartel nonsense ends. Let's take our ball in and get the Sheikh (who we simultaneously claim is not in control of the situation) to start a new competition without the G14. Hmm
Interesting that you responded to it.
I believe you’ve posted in the past saying you’d be surprised if we weren’t guilty or something along those lines.
I think that’s really harsh on @Big Dave WatsonControversial take...
Some of our fans will be secretly annoyed if we don’t get banned. You know the types. Those always desperate to be contrarian and appear unbiased. It’ll ruin some of their potential ‘I told you so’ blog entries that’s for sure.
Yeah, completely un-City fan like to be pessimistic...He’s even implied that we’re guilty in the last few pages. Now he’s entitled to his opinion like the rest of us, but I can’t see why any City fan - after being assured by the club that they’ve done nothing wrong - would believe UEFA over the club while the process is still ongoing, and in the absence of any comprehensive evidence showing why we are guilty. Now it might just be that the club have lied like fuck to us fans about all this but why any of our fans would think that at this stage is beyond me.
This is just a nothing post. People have to be aware of the ramifications of what happens next if we are banned. Nobody wants it. But its also worth pointing out, if the ban stands then City have fucked up. There won't be any defending it.
He’s even implied that we’re guilty in the last few pages. Now he’s entitled to his opinion like the rest of us, but I can’t see why any City fan - after being assured by the club that they’ve done nothing wrong - would believe UEFA over the club while the process is still ongoing, and in the absence of any comprehensive evidence showing why we are guilty. Now it might just be that the club have lied like fuck to us fans about all this but why any of our fans would think that at this stage is beyond me.
Richtig.Think there is a "not" missing here.
Correct!Think there is a "not" missing here.
Agree completely but it is a private organisation that presumably makes rules to suit its senior members. As such fairness can only be achieved from within so even the illegality of a barrier to entry in other sectors of business cuts no ice.Don't agree with that at all. CL qualification should be based on sporting issues, not a politically-motivated campaign to cripple a club. If we've broken rules then it's not unfair that we suffer some sort of sanction but we've already been punished for failing FFP.