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Man City [Now Not] Banned From UCL For 2 years

Spurrific

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Jun 2, 2011
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There's just no point, is there? It's basically shown that the playing field is totally uneven and there are no repercussions to flagrantly flouting the rules set in place to apparently ensure "fair play". These organising bodies have been clearly bribed in front of the millions of football fans keeping an eye on the situation.

Just shows, no matter how morally dubious a person, or regime, is - if they have enough money, they're allowed to come to the table and infiltrate the "beautiful game". If I supported City before all this, or Chelsea, I'd have stopped following football as soon as the takeover happened. I don't give a shit about trophies (lucky really), I couldn't possibly support a club funded by these sorts of people. The misery and (most likely death) caused by the oligarch in charge of Chelsea, or the abhorrent human rights abuses committed in the state City gets all its money from would be more than enough for me to start following cricket alone.
 

max cady

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Jan 29, 2011
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IMO that decision has got nothing to do with sport more like the wealthy financiers not wanting any issues
 

Mate

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Also we need to take three points from Leicester :whistle:
Our game against them has now become crucial for them. Would love to return the favour from the title season and dump them out of CL.

Also, Leicester v Man Utd is shaping up to be a tasty last game of the season
 

Ghost Hardware

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Might as well get rid of FFP now, it's completely defunct. City knew that this would happen and didn't give a fuck. One has to laugh at how corrupt football is.
 

Amo

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I don't think blaming CAS for the death of football is a productive selection of targets.

The full ruling isn't even out yet.
 

Tucker

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UEFA should make sure the referee in their next game ensures they are knocked out of the European Cup. Ditto the group stage next year.
 

leelee

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Our game against them has now become crucial for them. Would love to return the favour from the title season and dump them out of CL.

Also, Leicester v Man Utd is shaping up to be a tasty last game of the season

And no Soyuncu for the remaining games who has been arguably their best defender this year.

Leicester are gone. They were miles ahead and now no top 4 for them. Bottlejobs lol.
 

Saoirse

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It's very, very easy to assume this is corruption. But less wealthy clubs such as AC Milan have succeeded at CAS too. It's much harder to acknowledge that unfettered capitalism is exactly what the large majority of Europe has voted for for decades, and this is what that looks like. This is the world we choose to live in. Where only money matters, it doesn't matter what you've done to earn it, and stuff everyone else because clearly they should've just put more hard work into being evil bastards.
 

Gbspurs

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Jan 27, 2011
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What's funny is the law was brought in to stop uber rich owners and then when uber rich owners break those rules they think the answer is to fine them comparatively small amounts of money!?

How does that logic work in any way? Where is the deterrent. Man City have essentially doped themselves into a European powerhouse for the foreseeable future and all its cost them is about 1% of their annual turnover!?
 

EJWTartanSpur

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Jan 29, 2011
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We'll see how it goes but this might just be the end for me, to be honest. Especially if the Newcastle takeover goes through too. I have zero interest in supporting a club that sportswashes fascist regimes who murder gays and expel Yids. And it's looking like in time that will be the only route to success.

Honestly it’s been going that way for a long time. I was already absolutely jaded with it when we had AVB. I have Poch to thank for coming in and having our entire club over performing in relation to our financial standing, which re-invigorated me and gave me many happy occasions, if not a trophy. Ultimately though, he was facing an uphill battle.

I suppose you have to be a fan of the actual sports, which I am so it helps massively, but major US sport is just so much better in so many ways with drafting and wage caps. Proper rewards for scouting, recruitment tactics and coaching
 

John48

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The only thing MCity were found guilty of was not co-operating with UEFA.

CAS didn't find any financial irregularities in their financial dealings.
 

stonecolddeanaustin

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What's funny is the law was brought in to stop uber rich owners and then when uber rich owners break those rules they think the answer is to fine them comparatively small amounts of money!?

How does that logic work in any way? Where is the deterrent. Man City have essentially doped themselves into a European powerhouse for the foreseeable future and all its cost them is about 1% of their turnover!?

They've fined them for not cooperating with the investigation apparently. According to CAS, Man City did not disguise equity funding with their sponsorship arrangements and therefore broke no FFP rules. Expect to see "Visit Saudi Arabia" on Newcastle shirts very soon.
 

Saoirse

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Aug 20, 2013
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I bet you no one is more furious about this than Daniel Levy
he has no excuse to spend now

Levy's job is to run a business. City's job is to legitimise a fascist dictatorship. I'd much rather we were owned by the fans ala the Bundesliga, but it shouldn't be difficult to find the lesser of the two evils there.
 

Marty

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I don't think blaming CAS for the death of football is a productive selection of targets.

The full ruling isn't even out yet.
The full ruling will be extremely interesting and will likely shape the future of football financing. Whether FFP or similar survives depends entirely on what grounds City have been acquitted.
 

Trotter

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Need to see the ruling.

Were the leaked emails admissible evidence or not ?
If not then they have got off on a technicality, if they were FFP as a concept is flawed.

fine was purely because they failed to cooperate with the original investigation, not because of any breach
 
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