Manchester City banned from CL for 2 seasons and fined 30 million euros | CAS - Ban lifted, fined 10 million



I still think it’s likely that all Liverpool (their former City scouts) did was access a cloud database of scouting data that they had access to when they were employed by City and likely never had their credentials removed.
 
I still think it’s likely that all Liverpool (their former City scouts) did was access a cloud database of scouting data that they had access to when they were employed by City and likely never had their credentials removed.
In a corporate world, it's still a crime but in this context, I am not sure if it's a big deal.
 
In a corporate world, it's still a crime but in this context, I am not sure if it's a big deal.

Plauisble deniability though, they could claim LastPass logged them in automatically and they didn’t realise
 
Surely that's merely a Trump-style 'defence' anyway: "I may have shot that guy dead...but he didn't return the cd I lent him! So lemme off, or I'll call you hypocrites."
 
yes but i feel the reason these owners with moneybags and vanity projects not to mention pr endeavors want to 'blitzkrieg' with money is because growing organically is incredibly hard in a dog eat dog paradigm that is english and european football. you need to spend within means and develop players but there is nothing stopping the bigger fishes from coming and picking you apart every summer thereby setting you back. In theory it sounds dandy but it's much harder to implement in practice. You cannot keep these players happy with just the promise of a 'project'.
That's not accurate. These owners want to win now. They have no desire to grow organically. They certain could try if they wanted as there are many blueprints and examples of this. There is also nothing stopping a sugar daddy funded team from picking apart poorer clubs so I don't understand stand this point either.
 
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Can't. Breathe. Laughing. Too. Hard.

Please tell me you Photoshopped this.
Oh it's real, I think they have some deal with a fashion brand. I'm no fashion expert and I have seen attempts to make double denim an actual thing but it has and always will be the greatest of clothing sins.
 
Uefa must have some pretty strong evidence to go for two years otherwise the backlash they could face is just mind boggling. And yet City claim no wrong doing. Something just doesn't add up.
 
What the feck are they wearing that for?

They have a deal with Dsquared2 (Expensive but chavvy brand) but why on earth are sportsmen traveling to a big game in double denim. Id have it if it was a Dsquared2 tracksuit and the brand's trademark baseball cap but what is this. They look like a set of daft wankers.
 
Have the FA/PL addressed this at all? Who gets the 4th spot? Will they be doing their own investigation? Do they comply with PL FFP rules?
The lack of clarity is alarming.
 
Alright a club suit or tracksuit but as a grown man being forced to wear double denim.....how degrading.
 
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In this leaked document by Der Spiegel you see how they falsified the numbers of Etihad sponsorship. Etihad payed only 8 m, but they registered 67m. The rest comes from ADUG the owners of Man city.
 
So what happens when the appeal is still ongoing come May? Is the ban upheld?
 
So there's not going to be any benefit from finishing in 5th this season then. This isn't going to be sorted in time.
 
Have the FA/PL addressed this at all? Who gets the 4th spot? Will they be doing their own investigation? Do they comply with PL FFP rules?
The lack of clarity is alarming.

They won't say anything publicly unless it's concrete. City will have lawyers all over this and any wrong move from the PL will be disastrous.
 
Why exactly? Please tell.

Well if they appeal this (which they have), the ban will be postponed until the outcome of the hearing. I was also reading that City can then try and delay it. That's a lot of work to be done by may.