Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
The arrogance of MCFC is quite breathtaking. They've been caught with their pants down, bang to rights with those leaked emails where they've claimed they can "do what we want" as regards sponsorship financing rules (as well as the fairly unpleasant "one down 6 to go" reference when one of the members of the investigative chamber died).
Multi-billionaires like this are clearly well used to getting their own way and don't like being told what to do. The the owners here have infinite wealth and can throw all the best lawyers in the world at this for however long they like, so they believe they can simply deny deny deny as if they are somehow above the law. For them, money solves everything.
I hope their appeal to CAS fails miserably and that the ban sticks, but my bet would be that the ban is reduced to 1 year, with the other year suspended.
Interestingly, I see UEFA have already started investigating City's sponsorship deals post 2016 (as the offences they've been charged for took place between 2012-2016). If they've continued artificially inflating the Etihad deal post 2016 then there could be yet MORE sanctions ahead. Which would be fun.
Multi-billionaires like this are clearly well used to getting their own way and don't like being told what to do. The the owners here have infinite wealth and can throw all the best lawyers in the world at this for however long they like, so they believe they can simply deny deny deny as if they are somehow above the law. For them, money solves everything.
I hope their appeal to CAS fails miserably and that the ban sticks, but my bet would be that the ban is reduced to 1 year, with the other year suspended.
Interestingly, I see UEFA have already started investigating City's sponsorship deals post 2016 (as the offences they've been charged for took place between 2012-2016). If they've continued artificially inflating the Etihad deal post 2016 then there could be yet MORE sanctions ahead. Which would be fun.