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

[mr ashley]

It’s a shame this ban has been overturned because it would have interesting to see how UEFA would have dealt with the potential expulsion of the winners of their Blue Riband event. (If they’d have won it)

Now it’s just back to the harsh reality of life. Until we can compete financially, trophies and a dynasty of success may well just be a pipe dream.

One thing I will say- we are leading the fight in terms of growing a club organically, without the financial doping method we’ve seen city and Chelsea use.
And we’ve closed the gap considerably.

That’s not to say I’m a BSoDL, and I’m still frustrated we didn’t take further steps when we were on the cusp to really kick on.

 

[thebenjamin]

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.

Yes they did, they were inadmissible on a technicality - I guess because they were found by hacking - and they fell outside of the 5 year time span. There's absolutely no suggestion that they aren't guilty.

 

[dirtyh]

nice clear message, spend to win, simple as that. even saint klopp knew he eventually had to spend hundreds of millions to compete with the financial dopers.

 

[The Opinionated Lurker]

FFP has always been about making sure the ‘establishment’ clubs stay elite. Yes it theoretically stops them going into overdrive and spending gazillions, but it also has the effect that it stops the middling/lower clubs that want to get good quickly by spending a lot.

Here’s a quote from The Secret Footballer’s book The Guide to The Modern Game from supposedly a senior staff member at Tottenham about FFP: “Financially at least, the Europa League is designed to keep us in our place and protect the top four clubs in the major leagues across Europe by giving them as much TV revenue as possible. UEFA has changed the financial rules so that even if we could find an Arab billionaire to invest in our club, he no longer could to the extent of say, Man City, because of the FFP rules. I don’t understand how it is right that five years ago (at the time of writing) PSG, Man City and others were allowed to do that and steal a march on everybody and position themselves as elite clubs but now we can’t; we are further away from them than ever. But I know why those rules came in, and it wasn’t to protect the odd club that goes bust every hundred years. They were brought in to draw a line between the elite, and the rest.”

 

[Dannyspur]

Cheats DO prosper!

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

How much did that ruling cost

 

[Shadydan]

Fucking hell that is ridiculous, what kind of message does that send out to others, UEFA as per usual, spineless.

Yet they can and they have banned smaller teams from the comp for the same thing, makes you wonder...

 

[panoma]

So FFP is now officially a joke and just another way for the powers to get more money from the richest clubs.

I mean, we all knew it was a joke, but now they removed the last doubt.

 

[Col_M]

Tell you what, that €10M fine will make them think twice before doing it again.

 

[AberdeenYid]

Fucking hell that is ridiculous, what kind of message does that send out to others, UEFA as per usual, spineless.

Yet they can and they have banned smaller teams from the comp for the same thing, makes you wonder...

Wasn’t it UEFA who brought the case and banned City in the first place? This was CAS that overturned the initial verdict.

 

[PLTuck]

absolute joke.

But did we honestly expect anything different?

 

[cider spurs]

Well, this pretty much played out exactly how I thought it would.

Always the same, load of huff and puff followed by a touch of wrist slapping after appeal.

 

[tiger666]

££££££££
$$$$$$$$
BOLLOCKS
CHEATERS

not a surprise though. uefa and cas have zero integrity.

What have UEFA done? This is a CAS ruling.

 

[wirE]

hah! I'm not surprised. Rotten system

 

[Cavehillspur]

They got off? Shock horror....

 

[danielneeds]

Tell you what, that €10M fine will make them think twice before doing it again.

They’ll have spend twice that on the lawyers.

 

[sage]

top job UEFA, now back to fining Serbian teams for firing up flares

 

[Saoirse]

top job UEFA, now back to fining Serbian teams for firing up flares

Gosh, let's not be too ambitious. We all know the real priority is those horribly racist Celtic fans.

 

[dirtyh]

What have UEFA done? This is a CAS ruling.

exactly that, they do nothing. even if it was solely their ruling you'd know they'd be bought off regardless. doesn't matter who the 'ruling' body is, they're all as corrupt and financially doped as eachother.

 

[tiger666]

exactly that, they do nothing. even if it was solely their ruling you'd know they'd be bought off regardless. doesn't matter who the 'ruling' body is, they're all as corrupt and financially doped as eachother.

What do you mean they do nothing? UEFA banned them for 2 years and gave them a 30m fine. It's the Cas you should be pissed at.