Donvic4u:
Young player of the year Mason Greenwood

Player of the year De Bruyne

uunwanaobong3:

CAS VERDICT

This is an official summary of CAS verdict on mancity...........this goes to show how foolish a Case UEFA and the Hate 8 clubs presented to CAS

Honestly, I am so embarrassed reading this....... UEFA should be investigated.




https://www.manchestereveningnews.co

Man City vs Uefa court case details revealed by CAS

Manchester City DID provide to the Court of Arbitration for Sport the full content of the leaked emails which formed the basis of Uefa’s two-year ban.
And the independent court agreed with the Blues that nothing in them was proof that they had disguised owner investment as sponsorship money.
That was at the nub of the CAS decision to overturn Uefa’s two-year ban, which means City will be free to play in the Champions League next year.
CAS finally revealed the written reasons for their decision today, and said that three of Uefa’s allegations had been “time-barred” - that is, Uefa broke their own rules which state that any charges for breaches of financial fair play rule cannot stretch back further than five years.
But two more Uefa allegations were thrown out by CAS as lacking sufficient proof after City mounted a solid defence.

They pointed out that they were hacked by Rui Pinto, currently in jail facing criminal charges in Portugal, and said that “the Portuguese court has stated that Mr Pinto is not a whistleblower but is an extortionist, and that the stolen documents should not be used against the victims of his hacks.”
That was thrown out by Uefa, who said even if hacked, the emails were in the public interest.
But Uefa failed to show that the emails, once put into context, proved any wrongdoing.
The adjudicatory committee which initially found City guilty in February put great emphasis on mention in emails of “alternative sources” for most of the sponsorship fees in 2010. But that inadmissible as it referred to payments from a year BEFORE the break-even requirement.

The mistaken identification of Sheikh Mansour in one of the emails was central to City's defence
The leaked emails also made mention of “His Highness” which was assumed to mean City owner Sheikh Mansour.
But City’s team said that this in fact referred to Sheikh Tahnoon, chairman of the Abu Dhabi Tourist Authority – the CAS panel said there was no reason to believe that was untrue.
It was also claimed by City that the adjudicatory committee “wrongly assumed that the criminally obtained documents are genuine”, when they said it was obvious that at least some of the documents have been “edited to achieve a particular presentation”.
They also made the claim, accepted by CAS, that some of the financial “arrangements” discussed in the email had never come to fruition.
City said the leaked emails were “confusing snapshots, taken out of context, of matters that simply did not happen in the way that has been portrayed.”
The panel agreed that the CFCB adjudicatory committee had failed to reach the standard of proof required, and that the fairness of the market values of the sponsorship agreements was never questioned.
The Blues’ legal team said “MCFC has cooperated, in the face of a shifting and still uparticularised case involving allegations of fraud and conspiracy.”
They had said the leaked emails should not be admissible, but still answered the allegations based on them, and eventually agreed to release the original emails – there were six of them and one attachment used, out of around 5.5million hacked emails.
City also claimed that the CFCB had “systematically breached its duties of confidentiality and impartiality” during the process and that “ultimately MCFC has been investigated and prosecuted through a process that lacked impartiality and has, moreover, harmed MCFC.”
The CAS found that “leaked email number four is in fact a combination of two separate emails” which gives a “somewhat distorted impression”, and they based their decision on the originals, rather than the hacked versions published by Der Spiegel.
City and Uefa disputed when the five-year time bar should begin, and the panel adjudged any breaches before May 15, 2014 were inadmissible, which ruled out alleged breaches in 2012 and 2013.
But allegations dating to 2013-14 and 2015-16 were admissible – but the panel found insufficient evidence to find City guilty.
“The majority of the panel finds that the leaked emails by themselves are not sufficient evidence to support a finding that MCFC provided incorrect information to UEFA by disguising equity funding as sponsorship contributions”, they said.

City produced witnesses including board member Simon Pearce, also close to the Abu Dhabi Royal Family.
He replied “absolutely, categorically not” when asked if he had arranged payments to be made to Etihad to help fulfil sponsorship obligations.
The panel noted that none of the emails involved Etihad.
Uefa had claimed that the fact there were two separate payments of £59.5million and £8m made from Etihad was proof that one of them had been channelled through the airline from the funds of Sheikh Mansour’s Abu Dhabi United Group.
But City said the two payments came from two different budgets – central funds and marketing. Uefa said the £59.5 came from ADUG and the £8m from Etihad.
The panel found that the accounts also do not contradict City’s case, and that Uefa had singularly failed to provide any real proof that the Blues had breached FFP rules.
“Neither hypothesis is established and then it boils down to the burden of proof,” they said. “Given that UEFA carries the burden of proof and because the majority of the panel finds that it did not succeed in satisfying such burden, UEFA’s allegations must be dismissed.
They added: “There is no doubt that Etihad fully complied with its payment obligations towards MCFC and that MCFC rendered the contractually agreed services to Etihad in return.”
The award said the sponsorship agreements were “fair value” and there was no evidence City had tried to cover up any alleged violations or that they had actually gone through with some of the arrangements discussed in emails
They concluded that “UEFA’s theory on disguised equity funding remains unsubstantiated” adding the “theoretical possibility that this may have happened can certainly not be excluded but that is not the standard to be applied.”
City were eventually found guilty of failing to cooperate with the investigation by the semi-independent Club Financial Control Body.
City’s legal team had, CAS award, refused to cooperate because the evidence on which Uefa were proceeding was based entirely on hacked emails.
It said they “decided not to answer any questions on the authenticity of the criminally obtained documents or to produce any of the documents requested, suggesting that the request had not been made in good faith by the Chief Investigator.”
Uefa insisted they were relevant saying “Indeed they are at the core of this case.”
The panel found City should have cooperated with the investigation, and fined the Blues 10million euros.

maklelemakukula:
Where is trent Alexander Arnold? Isn't he "young" ?

Ewuhausa1:
What about these two

Humanoid01:

He's not a breakthrough player. It's his third season or so as a senior player.

Possiblegee:
Guy who you day Type all trash for now

maklelemakukula:
I said "young". It's different from "breakthrough"

Skillzystick:
DM if interested

Zico5:

Interested

Blankstare:
Kdb deserves balloon d 'or

Seunpaul01:
This is my own take

Best player : Sadio Mane

Manager: Jurgen kloop

Breakthrough: Bukayo Saka

Goal: Son

Match: Sheffield vs Manchester 3-3

Moment of the season : Aston villa surviving

YemyTemmy:
Where is Tammy Abraham?

ImmaculateJOE:
Like for Kelvin De Britney.
Share for Sadio Mane
Quote for Jordan Henderson

JesusJesus:
Best player : Kevin De Bruyne
Manager: Klopp
Breakthrough: Greenwood
Goal: Son
Match: Chelsea 2 - 2 Arsenal

creamylicious:
put signing of the season na.

obembet:
This is my own take, Best player of the season: Kevin De assist Bruyne, no arguments here. Manager of the season: Jürgen Klopp, took his team from losing the EPL by 1point last year to winning their first EPL title in 30years. Breakthrough player of the season: Mason Greenwood, no much to say that hasn't been said but 17 Goals in your debut season before 18 years, United has a gem. Signing of the season: Bruno Fernandes, came in January and delivered continuously. Goal of the season: Heung Min Son aka SON---ALDO solo against Burnley, Games of the season: There were a lot of great games but I will go with these ones; Wolves 3:2 Manchester City with Adama Traoré havoc, Sheffield United 3:3 Manchester United, Southampton 0:9 Leicester City that equalled the biggest away win in history then Watford 3:0 Liverpool ending the reds Unbeaten run. Moment of the season: Jesse Lingard scoring the last goal of the EPL season