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Why can't this be Liverpool
I suspect the clubs involved in fight for 4/5th will demand some clarity ASAP. Take us for example what if 4th looks like it’s gone but 5th is still on cards with 5 games left. Then due to fixture pile up we have to prioritise games. Clubs need to know where they stand for all sorts of reasons.
I think it would be silly to assume anything other than the status quo until the process is over. We need to play it as it was before, get 4th so we're nailed on. Then if we do get 5th then we might be in for a lifeline. It would be ridiculous for the club to assume 5th would do it at this point.I suspect the clubs involved in fight for 4/5th will demand some clarity ASAP. Take us for example what if 4th looks like it’s gone but 5th is still on cards with 5 games left. Then due to fixture pile up we have to prioritise games. Clubs need to know where they stand for all sorts of reasons.
Because they're a well run club who operate within their means?Why can't this be Liverpool
Because they're a well run club who operate within their means?
Yes including a retro-ban for last season.Why can't this be Liverpool
There's no viable way for City to do that. CAS can hear things very quickly if need be e.g. doping incidents in the immediate build up to or even *during* a tournament. They can very comfortably deal with this in the 5-6 months they have (exact timing dependent on the result of the League Cup Final - if Villa win they'll be the team playing Europa qualifying regardless so a decision wouldn't be needed until the CL Group Stage Draw on the 27th of August, if City win the the team playing will depend on the appeal outcome so a decision would be needed 4 working days before the UEL Second Qualifying Round 1st Leg i.e. 17th of July. And yes, it has been left that close before!)As other people have suggested, City's immediate objective will be to ensure they're in next season's CL. They've got a better chance of doing that by dragging out the arbitration process than try to get UEFA's decision reversed in the next few months and risk losing.
There's no viable way for City to do that. CAS can hear things very quickly if need be e.g. doping incidents in the immediate build up to or even *during* a tournament. They can very comfortably deal with this in the 5-6 months they have (exact timing dependent on the result of the League Cup Final - if Villa win they'll be the team playing Europa qualifying regardless so a decision wouldn't be needed until the CL Group Stage Draw on the 27th of August, if City win the the team playing will depend on the appeal outcome so a decision would be needed 4 working days before the UEL Second Qualifying Round 1st Leg i.e. 17th of July. And yes, it has been left that close before!)
I reckon* the points deduction should be applied from the outset next season, it'd have much more of an impact. If you take 20 points off them this season then... oh no, they can't get into a competition they're already banned from.
* based on nothing more than it's how I want it to happen
Horrifying and highly supernaturalDont understand how they can appeal, it would be like Ted Bundy appealing.
And even though there's a team below them, Arsenal have a higher chance than that team of being relegated. Wonderful.On 538, we're suddenly up to 43% of finishing in the CL spots. Arsenal have soared from <1% to 2%.
But if they get excluded erroneously, it could cost them £100m. UEFA leave themselves open to being sued to kingdom come. I guess CAS will have to hear the case ASAP, but it will still go to basically the day before the season starts, so whoever comes 5th won't know what's happening all summer.
As other people have suggested, City's immediate objective will be to ensure they're in next season's CL. They've got a better chance of doing that by dragging out the arbitration process than try to get UEFA's decision reversed in the next few months and risk losing.
Or only then revert back to the prem positions.And if City wins the FA Cup? Give a CL place to the runners up of a domestic cup competition, which could theoretically be a Championship team?