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

[Marcus_spur]

Cant see why anyone is surprised. The fact is that most sports bureaucrats, and CAS in particular, are extremely corrupt.
Anyone with money can bribe them to get the decision they want.

 

[kendoddsdadsdogsdead]

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.”

just about to post similar. FFP is a disaster for football it really is set up to discourage competition. We are actually one of the clubs that can compete even though we chose not to but there is really no hope for the vast majority of clubs now. American sport has it right with the blanket salary cap. If they want to encourage fair play that’s the way to do it.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

Cant see why anyone is surprised. The fact is that most sports bureaucrats, and CAS in particular, are extremely corrupt.
Anyone with money can bribe them to get the decision they want.

We should have done a fundraiser ...

 

[Marcus_spur]

We should have done a fundraiser ...

Unfortunately I dont think even all of sc can compete financially with the slavers at city

 

[WhiteStripe]

As I said in the Jose thread, I personally would like to thank him for the wonderful job he’s done in managing expectations so far. He had the vision, the clarity, the foresight to predict the City ban would be overturned, he knew the impact it would have on the fans finishing 5th only to have another Chelsea situation, or lasagnegate. This way he’s ensured we don’t dare to believe in champions league qualification only for it to be painfully removed when we finish 5th and the ban was overturned. Bravo Jose, bravo!!

 

[UncleBuck]

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

I think pretty much every other sport now has it’s house in order when it comes to wage caps etc, you only have to look at the punishment Saracen’s received this season.
Football is a cancer in today’s world in terms of the money involved and it’s values. The sport is morally bankrupt and has no integrity whatsoever. Everyone has been laughing at some of the decisions made by FIFA and uefa for years, issuing a bigger fine to a player who was advertising a bookie than the fine issued to Spain for their supporters racially abusing players springs to mind instantly.
You’ve got bang average players earning £30k a week with people involved in the administration also earning a fortune whilst in cricket cost-cutting has led some counties to question whether they can honour a commitment made last year to pay a new minimum wage of £27,500 a year for professionals aged over 21.
Yes I support Tottenham but do I support football in general? Not at all and I’m pretty much done with it in all honesty.

 

[King of Otters]

Fuck City, but also, and perhaps even more so, fuck UEFA and FFP.

As has been pointed out elsewhere, whether by accident or design, FFP only serves to shore up the status of the top clubs, ensuring nothing like a PSG, City or Chelsea can ever happen again.

As a side-note, the fact that this will cost Leicester and Brendan Rodgers a place in the Champions League after spending the virtually the entire season in the top 3 is probably the funniest thing to happen in football since Pardew's Cup Final Dad Dance.

 

[Mate]

I think pretty much every other sport now has it’s house in order when it comes to wage caps etc, you only have to look at the punishment Saracen’s received this season.
Football is a cancer in today’s world in terms of the money involved and it’s values. The sport is morally bankrupt and has no integrity whatsoever. Everyone has been laughing at some of the decisions made by FIFA and uefa for years, issuing a bigger fine to a player who was advertising a bookie than the fine issued to Spain for their supporters racially abusing players springs to mind instantly.
You’ve got bang average players earning £30k a week with people involved in the administration also earning a fortune whilst in cricket cost-cutting has led some counties to question whether they can honour a commitment made last year to pay a new minimum wage of £27,500 a year for professionals aged over 21.
Yes I support Tottenham but do I support football in general? Not at all and I’m pretty much done with it in all honesty.

And this is why 95% of my football viewing is on Spurs. My support is for the club, not for football. The other 5% is made up of cup finals and a bit of MOTD

 

[djee]

Punishment akin to a man having death penalty sentence commuted to writing lines.

 

[Zippy1980]

Expected

 

[enfieldyid]

I think pretty much every other sport now has it’s house in order when it comes to wage caps etc, you only have to look at the punishment Saracen’s received this season.
Football is a cancer in today’s world in terms of the money involved and it’s values. The sport is morally bankrupt and has no integrity whatsoever. Everyone has been laughing at some of the decisions made by FIFA and uefa for years, issuing a bigger fine to a player who was advertising a bookie than the fine issued to Spain for their supporters racially abusing players springs to mind instantly.
You’ve got bang average players earning £30k a week with people involved in the administration also earning a fortune whilst in cricket cost-cutting has led some counties to question whether they can honour a commitment made last year to pay a new minimum wage of £27,500 a year for professionals aged over 21.
Yes I support Tottenham but do I support football in general? Not at all and I’m pretty much done with it in all honesty.

The Saracens decision was as corrupt.

 

[Col_M]

Stay Alert, Control the Virus, Save Lives

Cheat the System, Pay backhanders, Make More Money

 

[Jamturk]

Capitalism.

 

[glacierSpurs]

What a joke UEFA has been. Not sure was it Pep who mentioned he was confident they would win the appeal. Just showed how much behind the scenes of under-table deals had already happened.

Hope karma repays them sooner than later for such evil corruption. Really wish for the bankruptcy of Citeh owners, fled the club and got them into administration down to the third tier where they truly belong.

 

[mmidgers]

Capitalism.

Corrupitalism

 

[Doctor Dinkey]

Capitalism.

Yup. Today's decision is all about maintaining the dominance of the corrupt elites, and is symptomatic of an entire busted system.

 

[Marty]

Capitalism.

Disaster capitalism at it's finest.

It's always made me laugh that the US, home of peak disaster capitalism, has the most socialist professional sporting structure in the world, yet in the more social democratic states of Europe disaster capitalism is the way our most popular sport is run.

 

[fortworthspur]

what a farce.

 

[Drink!Drink!]

Football is corrupt. final confirmation with the news today.

 

[fortworthspur]

Football is corrupt. final confirmation with the news today.

Id say we found out the CAS is corrupt today. We already knew some clubs cheat like hell.