One thing I hate more than Man City is threads and posts with just a link. At least offer a comment or summary FFS.
Here's what I think. Manchester City are regarded as a “pariah club” by a number of their Premier League rivals, according to a senior football source. The English champions have been at war with Uefa for the past couple of years but events this week have shown that they have enemies closer to home. City were stunned when eight of the top ten teams in the top flight contacted the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas) to intervene in the club’s appeal against their two-year Champions League ban. The suspension was imposed by European football’s ruling body after City were ruled to have breached financial fair play rules. The intervention is designed to ensure that, should the appeal not be heard before the new campaign starts, Pep Guardiola’s team will not be able to take part in next season’s Champions League. Cas does not automatically suspend punishments while it hears cases. Appellants are required to petition the Lausanne-based court to have any sanctions ‘stayed’ while the case is considered. City have not asked for the sentence to be deferred until the process is complete but the move by eight clubs – Liverpool, Leicester City, Chelsea, Manchester United, Wolverhampton Wanderers, Tottenham Hotspur, Arsenal and Burnley – appears to be an attempt to pre-empt any such strategy from the Etihad.
