Wisbech Eagle
Member
- Location
- Truro Cornwall
- Country
England
We don’t have any shares to put in trust! Only individual shareholders do. In this case only one of them matters. He had no decisive influence at the club, although by the strict interpretation of UEFA rules he did. We though had no power to instruct him to place them in a blind trust and why would he do so voluntarily when trying to sell? Especially when blind trusts were allowed only for last season, and not the next one, as a device to whitewash MCO conflicts.So all that needs to happen is for us to produce the email that was sent to info@uefa.com saying we intended to put our shares in trust if we won the FA Cup!
Allowing Forest to simply show intention rather than meeting a deadline that is being strictly applied in Palace’s case but not in Forest’s doesn’t appear on the face of it to be particularly just.
This is a mess entirely of UEFA’s own making. The intentions are good. Ones which we have always supported and now unequivocally comply with. The rules though don’t achieve that and aren’t fit for purpose.
I hope, and expect, that CAS are now mediating and trying to reach a negotiated solution rather than have to give a ruling. Which may be harder when Marinakis is involved.