Jase

City got punished for for "overstating its sponsorship revenue in its accounts" and failing "to cooperate in the investigation". https://www.espn.com/soccer/manchester-city/story/4052767/manchester-city-faces-two-year-champions-league-ban-for-ffp-violations

'Aggravated the injury' might be stretching it a little, I think. There was no word whether he exaggerated it. If anything, I think Lampard and co. are being careful with the recovery (yes, there was a minor setback), given it concerns the muscle. Remember the stop-start nature of Kante's injury problems earlier this season? The club likely want to make sure they get it right before putting Pulisic back into action.

The CAS decision will be made before the start of next season it seems.

Think I have mentioned a few times in the last few days that spending over 100 million on a single player when we still need to spend on a ST, a LB and potentially a GK would be a serious case of mismanagement of resources. Personally, I could care less whether we get Sancho or not. Now that we have gotten Ziyech, Sancho feels like a luxury player and having Pulisic/CHO/Sancho/Ziyech would be overkill (a point what I have mentioned several times on here). I want the club to go spend on other areas that need urgent fixing instead of spending what would probably be 3/4 our budget on a single player and still be left wanting in those said areas. I want Lampard, the club to spend wisely and improve the squad, not simply spend on players because they're the flavor of the month etc. Will Lampard and the club do that? God knows. We support Chelsea and Chelsea tend to make some boneheaded decisions. So yeah, god knows.

OKAY, this just got interesting...

OH...

What? Since when I said I want Sancho?

City's statement... https://www.mancity.com/news/club-news/club-news/2020/february/manchester-city-club-statement

PSG got away with a ban for a similar breach, I think. Watch CAS overturn that European ban for City...

The situation now dependent on a CAS appeal. Scenes if the 5th spot becomes a CL spot...

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/feb/14/manchester-city-banned-from-champions-league-two-seasons-ffp-uefa?CMP=share_btn_tw I'm not sure what's full details of City's breach over the FFP but they just got punished for it. A reminder that we need to be careful with the spending etc.

I guess it shouldn't be a surprise but I swear every Tom, Dick and Harry out there is trying to be the ITK on the Sancho transfer. If we had really tried to do a Pulisic type deal with Sancho and failed, I'm sure we would have heard something about it from the German at the very least but there has been nothing. There's not even a thing from the usual Italian journalists or the English ones who usually cover Chelsea. I'm sure we are interested in Sancho but whether we will actually make the move remains to be seen. It could all come down to whether we extend Willian's contract or whether we sign Boga because if one of those things happen (especially the former), then I can't see us sign Sancho and have like 5 wingers (I know Ziyech can play in the No.10 role but the RW is still the main position for him).

Lampard on Willian's and Pedro's future after the signing on Ziyech... https://www.football.london/chelsea-fc/chelsea-lampard-manchester-united-live-17748707 WTF!?

Lampard on Willian's and Pedro's future after the signing on Ziyech... https://www.football.london/chelsea-fc/chelsea-lampard-manchester-united-live-17748707

Out for 6 months. Not sure whether they want him back. He's become injury prone since he went to Barcelona and he left Dortmund on bad terms too.

- Pulisic training with the U23s today, won't be fit for this match but is building up the fitness. - Loftus-Cheek definitely won't be fit. - Abraham still feeling the effects from the previous injury. Had to be left out a few times this week but trained today and his availability will be assessed.

LOL

No but interesting thought. Think Dortmund would prefer to take the money though, especially if they already secure a cheap replacement from somewhere else, although they already have many attacking players at the moment (excluding Sancho).

Lampard on Ziyech... https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2020/02/14/frank-lampard-outlines-the-qualities-that-hakim-ziyech-will-brin?cardIndex=0-0