City ban overturned

[Editor]

Man City have their ban overturned. Free to play in the CL. Wow!

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[threeps]

Very bad news for UEFA and FFP, sugar-daddy teams now know they can do what they want and there’s no punishment. Might as well scrap FFP completely.

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[nine nine nine]

Pleased for Pep the players and the fans who were all innocent parties. FFP rules as they stand are clearly in jeopardy now.

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[Chucky McChuckface]

Nothing against Moneybags or their fans, but an absolute joke of a decision. As comments above suggest, UEFA have completly shot themselves in the foot with regards to FFP rules. RIP FFP!!

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[threeps]

“The CAS award emphasized that most of the alleged breaches reported by the Adjudicatory Chamber
of the CFCB were either not established or time-barred. As the charges with respect to any dishonest
concealment of equity funding were clearly more significant violations than obstructing the CFCB’s
investigations, it was not appropriate to impose a ban on participating in UEFA’s club competitions
for MCFC’s failure to cooperate with the CFCB’s investigations alone.”

Time-barred?! Seriously that can be used as justification?

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[Adlab]

Chucky.
Whatever you think or I think we were not there to hear the evidence.
What I do know is that the”teams in red” can stuff their debt up their backsides despite their concerted efforts to influence matters.

Lets get on with the football

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[sean the sailor]

Said it all along. Absolutely no surprise

Better for us if city are occupied with the cl aswell as they would have ran away with the pl without cl football

Don’t k ow the full story so can’t comment but UEFA nearly always over turn their original decision so absolutely no suprise

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[threeps]

Uefa’s statement

“UEFA takes note of the decision taken by the Court of Arbitration for Sport to reduce the sanction imposed on Manchester City FC by UEFA’s independent Club Financial Control Body for alleged breaches of the UEFA Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play regulations.

UEFA notes that the CAS panel found that there was insufficient conclusive evidence to uphold all of the CFCB’s conclusions in this specific case and that many of the alleged breaches were time-barred due to the 5 year time period foreseen in the UEFA regulations.

Over the last few years, Financial Fair Play has played a significant role in protecting clubs and helping them become financially sustainable and UEFA and ECA remain committed to its principles.

UEFA will be making no further comments on the matter.”

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[Editor]

Adlab, I really don’t understand your supposed annoyance at the fact the evil “teams in red” would have been pushing for City to be punished if found guilty. Any of the teams City competed against over the last decade or so should quite rightly be absolutely fuming that they’ve had to follow the rules and pull back their own spending only to seemingly see another club flout them and get away with it.

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[Anonymous]

Adlab, what debt? Enjoy the moment but I wouldn’t get too cocky, if you read the final statement, it shows that City were not found innocent at all. They got off via at least 2 technicalities.

So, City can cheat and get away with a slap on the wrist. I’m extremely disappointed by this. I mean, I would have preferred to read that City were innocent cause this just winds me up.

Nine, FFP is a developing process. They will have to reinforce it and then Man Cheaty and the other debt-free clubs will see if they can “maneuver” their way around the rules again.

Before this I was kinda wishing City well in the CL (seriously, I actually thought about it and figured, what the hell, let them win it) but now I’m going to be going for Juve.

Nothing personal against any of the City lads on here. I just absolutely loath this kind of shite.

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[Anonymous]

Sean, you did call this in fairness to you. There I was thinking that CAS would stick up for the integrity of the sport but they got off on technicalities. A 10m fine is absolutely pathetic also. What the hell went on there?

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[Surrey Blue]

City was never going to get away scot free and the fine is an attempt to spare UEFA’s blushes just a little. I always doubted that City was more or less corrupt than its brethren and I think UEFA jumped the gun without giving it the necessary due diligence and relied on some fairly dodgy evidence. That’s my take on it but I’m not close to te detail (none of us are) so I guess the real story will come out in time – possibly

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[threeps]

They were found guilty of not cooperating with UEFA authorities, hence the fine. It seems that the evidence presented was thrown out on a technicality, as in the time limit. Would of thought UEFA lawyers might of done a little research into this before submitting!

This will have huge ramifications throughout Europe. I’m looking forward to what the Spanish FA has to say! It could hasten a Superleague break-away, one where the state-sponsored teams (City, PSG and probably Newcastle) are not invited.

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[Chucky McChuckface]

Man Cheaty… Special K actually made me larff!! 🙂 🙂

Adders, I read the evidence, I read the e-mails, as did the entire universe (except for the blue of of Manchester!). As guilty as a puppy sitting next to a pile of poo!! No doubt about it. Man Cheaty have got away with it on a technicality and nothing more…

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[Editor]

If, once further information comes to light, it’s confirmed that City have indeed got off on a technicality, I can’t help thinking this is the worst possible outcome for City.

A ban would have been an open and shut case. There would have been closure. As it stands, and without further information coming to light which exonerates them fully, this will forever leave a shadow over any recent and future achievements at the club, which is a shame.

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[Adlab]

Ed
This is based on an in depth article by Martin Samuel some weeks ago who pointed out the excessive influence representatives from certain clubs have in UEFA EG David Gill and how hard they were pressing for a City ban. Also the same from Liverpool and Arsenal owners.

Who knows the actual truth but why would UEFA bring such a case, by all accounts, they knew they couldnt win.

Like all of us the full findings will make interesting reading.

FFP? Not if they exclude the original reason…debt.

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[Adlab]

Cas said City could not be proved to have concealed equity funding as sponsorship agreements, as Uefa proposed, and that the only charge upheld was City’s failure to cooperate in the investigation.

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[Editor]

Adlab, I certainly hope Utd were amongst those pushing for City to be punished if they indeed had been proven to have been cheating. Nothing worse than dishonesty and corruption in the game and clubs need to take a united stand against any such attempts.

I’d really hope other clubs would push for Utd (or any other club) to be banned if we’d broken the rules too.

This “poor Man City, everyone is out to get us” mentality is tiresome, to say the least.

Pleased for the City fans on here though that they’ll be playing CL again, deservedly.

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[nine nine nine]

Massive egg on UEFA faces they should have been fully aware that the most serious allegations against City fell outside their own time barrier rules.

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[nine nine nine]

Adlab, you should thanking your good fortune rather than throwing around silly accusations against United.

If I remember it correctly all of this came to light via someone hacking City’s computers and then leaking it to Der Spiegel who published it all none lf which had anything to do with United.

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