BW 🇾🇪

If you can’t argue the facts, argue the law… City argued at CAS that all the sponsorship money came from the sponsors rather than the government to then come back and argue years later that it was actually government money given to the sponsors… So what’s changed? The key difference is that the PL had access to more evidence than UEFA because City were forced, after several court cases, to hand it all over. That’s why senior people at Etihad were happy to testify at CAS when their names on the leaked emails were redacted, but seemingly were less interested in doing so in front of the IC who had all the evidence presented to them to counter it from the PL. This is why the verdict so clearly states that they believed that this defence was created after the fact to try and defend the charges, and legal professionals in these circumstances don’t make factual statements unless they have the evidence to back it up. All this information is publicly available, and the fact that they’re trotting this failed strategy out again should highlight how much trouble they’re in. At this point it’s all about image and ego.