LaLiga boss Javier Tebas believed City should have been thrown out of European competition
In July 2016, European Union competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager demanded the repayment of millions in soft loans, tax breaks and sweetheart property deals given to seven LaLiga clubs, chief among them Spain's big two.
Yet Tebas continues to insist it is City who should be thrown out of Europe for distorting UEFA competitions. Now he wants CAS thrown out, too, for not reaching the verdict his masters desired.
'We have to reassess whether CAS is the appropriate body to which to appeal institutional decisions in football,' he said. 'Switzerland is a country with a great history of arbitration, CAS is not up to standard.'
Funnily enough, it seemed perfectly acceptable to Tebas in 2016, when it halved Real Madrid's FIFA transfer ban for wrongdoing over the signing of young players. And no complaints about CAS as recently as six days ago, when it rejected Brazilian club Santos's case against Barcelona, relating to the signing of Neymar in 2013.
It must just be in the last week CAS's standards have become unacceptable. When Tebas's friends didn't get their way.