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

[SebastianBlue]

And a cunnt

That goes without saying.

But it is worth saying again.

Delaney is a ****.

 

[Coatigan]

Delaney’s tweet as so often is nonsense in a world where Liverpool are Champions and where it was largely triggered as a consequence of the drop down of PSG buying Neymar, giving Barca the cash to overpay by £50m for Coutinho, to give Liverpool the funds to buy VVD and Allison. All in a pre CAS judgment world.

Ah but they would have been able to keep coutinho And have vvd and alison, if we hadn't inflated the market.

Not that they'd need to, as their whole squad is made of non-bought local academy players who grew up within a stone's throw from the stadium.

 

[Scottyboi]

He's been gubbed to death. RIP @Scottyboi

Still got another 14 pp to fall back on haha lost my own personal one last month though it had served me well.

 

[NZBlue]

10 years ago my mate posted about us signing David Silva used my credit card at the time on skybet took a few hundred off them haha.

8/1 is good value with sources.

Actually we did sign David Silva he turned out to be rather good

Ha ha

 

[west didsblue]

If our ban is overturned and we are totally exonerated by CAS I look forward to Delaney, Harris and the other bastions of fair play admitting they were wrong, apologising for their inflammatory bile and writing in depth articles why fans of other clubs should stop their hate campaign against City and accept that the real facts don’t align to their prejudices.

I’m also going looking for some flying pigs.

 

[mat]

He actually hates us, doesn't he?

Is he a plastic rag?

That’s not a professional talking, that’s a childish it’s not fair rant.

 

[waspish]

Thing is we win Monday we won’t rub anyone noses in it we won’t go out and spend 150m say on Kane we will we go about our business as we always have.

 

[Gordyola]

Has anyone thought that our whole legal and PR strategy has been to maintain our innonence throughout, no matter the outcome, to ensure that they keep us onside as a fan base?

Soriano said the evidence is irrefutable, Pep has said he's seen it and believes we're innocent, etc. And fans will always have a bias to go along with their word and ignore outside opinion - even if found guilty. Let's face it, blue tinted specs do exist.

But maybe they've known we're guilty all along but have always been looking at the long game. The legal costs are a drop in the ocean anyway.

It sounds a bit crazy as it's a very bold approach, but ultimately, politicians do it all the time and the world goes on. Our club needs us to back it - which I'm sure most will regardless - and we'd move past the ban if it gets upheld and continue to support the owners.

I hope this theory is complete crap but it's not out of the realms of possibility and just throwing it out there.

you said it “complete crap”

 

[Scottyboi]

If our ban is overturned and we are totally exonerated by CAS I look forward to Delaney, Harris and the other bastions of fair play admitting they were wrong, apologising for their inflammatory bile and writing in depth articles why fans of other clubs should stop their hate campaign against City and accept that the real facts don’t align to their prejudices.

I’m also going looking for some flying pigs.

The bullshit they put out will go up tenfold, probably put up pictures of children dying in Yemen and linking it to the judgement.

 

[FrankSwift1]

So we are still relying on Cheesemans tweet which is a little disappointing as I thought that once I heard that there woild be an avalanche of supporting information from various sources. Im quite confident now but still a little apprehensive.

My take had been that we are banned for 2 years and anything more positive than that from the appeal is a bonus. Mentally I was at the Arsenal away game in 2012. We are banned Im gutted but get on with it. Atm I feel like we are just kicking off in the second half of the QPR game. Its all over surely, a quick goal and its pretty much done. To lose at this point would be pretty deverstating.

 

[SebastianBlue]

Ah but they would have been able to keep coutinho And have vvd and alison, if we hadn't inflated the market.

Not that they'd need to, as their whole squad is made of non-bought local academy players who grew up within a stone's throw from the stadium.

Don’t forget they all play for pride and the love of the fans.

That saves quite a bit for the FFP calculations.

Just enough that applying capital development costs to the financial loss calculations allows them to pass UEFA’s scrutiny with no problem at all...

 

[mat]

Delaney is a moron. Ceferin has made sure that FFP is here to stay in a modified form and City will be one of the clubs that helps Ceferin with his reforms. Delaney is so blinded to his own prejudices (racism and xenophobia) that he literally can't see the whole story. Why does he persist in repeating the lie that our club is "owned by a state?"

Goebbels trick of if say the lie enough it becomes truth. Plastic rags and Dippers swallow anything he says on Sunday Supplement and it’s treated as gospel. You can see this in their tweets agreeing with him with their obligatory Fernandez/Salah/club badge avatar.

 

[Rammy Blue]

Only to the publication.

https://news.paddypower.com/footbal...th-man-citys-day-of-reckoning-on-the-horizon/

Cos they’re bullshit and don’t exist.

 

[mat]

Both sides will know by now and you can't tell me that if the verdict is in UEFA's favour then they would've leaked it to a few hounds by now, the silence is deafening. I'm completely chilled about the whole thing and got my Cigar at the ready to light up come Monday morning :-)

Yep.

I’d expect a front page splurge on an US based newspaper with Liverpool connections if UEFA had won. Along with The Dipperpool Echo parroting it in a 30 page special paper slandering City to fuck.

 

[hertsblue]

If our ban is overturned and we are totally exonerated by CAS I look forward to Delaney, Harris and the other bastions of fair play admitting they were wrong, apologising for their inflammatory bile and writing in depth articles why fans of other clubs should stop their hate campaign against City and accept that the real facts don’t align to their prejudices.

I’m also going looking for some flying pigs.

I hope for more. If we are exonerated i hope the club legally starts to go after anyone spouting lies which is harmful to the club

 

[Groke]

Both sides will know by now and you can't tell me that if the verdict is in UEFA's favour then they would've leaked it to a few hounds by now, the silence is deafening. I'm completely chilled about the whole thing and got my Cigar at the ready to light up come Monday morning :-)

only concern about this theory is that there weren't any leaks about the 2 year ban before it was announced

 

[journolud]

A journalism degree? Based on what I’m seeing, that must be the easiest degree in history...

Journalism degree final Exam paper...

Q1 (20 marks)

Name, Surname

Q2 (20 marks)

You need to write a story that will be read by fans of football clubs that play in red. You don’t actually have any knowledge to write it. Do you...

A) Make it up as long as the red teams supporters like what it’s saying.
B) As per answer A, but pretending you have sources.
C) object to the editor and refuse to write it, as you’re a professional journalist.

Q3 (20 marks...ps, no wrong answer here)

If you were stupid enough to answer C in Q2, how long do you think your career in journalism would last?

A) would be over as soon as I left the editors’ office.
B) would be over as soon as the words ‘object’ left my lips.
C) would effectively be over as soon as the thought to object entered my head.

Q4 (20 Marks)

You hear from a reliable source that Manchester City have done something praiseworthy. Do you...

A) write a piece covering the story and quoting your reliable source.
B) Assume your reliable sources emails have been hacked, and ignore it.
C) Assume your reliable source is actually a plant from Abu Dhabi, and write a 5 week expose about Abu Dhabi bribing their way to the top.

Q5 (20 Marks)

A Manchester United youth team player scores a goal. Do you...

A) - do nothing until they’ve proven worthy of special praise for an extended period of good games.
B) - Write with effusive praise about the United academy and suggest this might be another excellent product from the production line
C) - Sanction a 5 episode documentary on the greatest wonder-kid of all time, who plays for the worlds greatest club, and spend at least 30 minutes showing every camera angle in slow motion of their goal.

More effort has gone into that and it is more accurate than most journos efforts

 

[NZBlue]

One of the really great things about living in New Zealand is that we are a day ahead of the UK and the rest of Europe and already have the announcement.
I have to say it came as a surprise to me, the ITKs were so far off the mark it was untrue, but fair play to CAS for such an imaginative solution.

Obviously since this is embargoed in the UK i can't share it in a forum but feel free to PM me if you want to be in the first to hear

 

[kippaxwarrior]

I hope for more. If we are exonerated i hope the club legally starts to go after anyone spouting lies which is harmful to the club

I think that's what the club is waiting for.

If we are cleared I would expect multiple libel actions against journalists and organisations and also a lot of banhammers being dished out.

Maybe they have already asked @mods on here how to dish them out.......[emoji23]

 

[MillionMilesAway]

It’s total and utter bollocks. Have you ever seen a bookie list a series of odds with no way to have a bet on those odds? Me neither.

I was more thinking that the book looked so hopelessly unbalanced that it would only sucker in morons, and would miss anyone with half a brain.