Is this what you're going with?
Football Leaks: Manchester City accused of using shadow firms to flout rules
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So you think they photoshopped the emails shown as evidence then?
Feck me, they are in for some liability suit.
There's literally images of emails there. You think they've photoshopped them so blatantly?
Is it Fake News?
I'm going to assume there will be no repercussions to these actions.
They're making a joke of football. As are those letting it happen.
Bent as it gets.
Bent as it gets.
Probably wary of getting sued. Stuff often gets deliberately leaked to foreign sites by the mainstream media for this reason. They can then report the report, the Ronaldo stuff being the most obvious recent example.
Will anything come of this?
And in other breaking news: Bears shit in the woods.
With these feckers sitting in the governing body of football nothing will be done. Clubs will just continue to spread their legs for these twats.
With these feckers sitting in the governing body of football nothing will be done. Clubs will just continue to spread their legs for these twats.
You’d either have to be incredibly naive or been living under a rock/in denial if you didn’t think that this was happening.
Didn’t the PSG owner also get elected on a UEFA committee recently?
Didn’t the PSG owner also get elected on a UEFA committee recently?
There is one known member Claas Relotius who faked news for years. He was a winner of the journo of the year as he was that good. Spiegel accepeted the blame but he fooled the whole journo community. These City news arent made up by a single reporter they are leaked by people in the know.
Which is different to no one care, surely you will agree with that, particularly when it comes from important media in the first place. Currently in France it's on L'Equipe which is one of the biggest publication in the country and I have seen it on France 3 which is a state media, there is probably a lot of other articles about it. Also in France they talk about it from the POV of Lille's current owner who is apparently the one that helped City with the scheme.
In another world, this would have actual repercussions. In reality, they’ll get a fine and perhaps be barred from signing players in the next winter transfer window allowing them to sign whoever they need during the summer.
Kick them out of the CL, remove all of their titles and relegate them. Job done. 
British Journos don't want to lose their complimentary pizza buffets and VIP experiences. Don't expect this to gain any traction in the UK. I'd be pleasantly surprised if it did.
No, PSG CEO has been elected by the ECA(the clubs) as one of their representative.
Aaargh thanks JP.
That's the thing. They are happy to brush along the edges but no English publication has the balls yet to run with the story.
We've known for years they tried to circumvent FFP rules. The only manager in the league who has consistently pulled them up on it was Wenger, who by the end gave up trying because UEFA were ineffective.
Let's just hope it drags out, and they get punished next year instead
And take all their fanbase and send them to Abu Dhabi, to work for their beloved sheikh. I'd like to see their "unpopular opinions" in that situation.Kick them out of the CL, remove all of their titles and relegate them. Job done.
Makes a nice headline, but there won’t be any meaningful consequences.
Shady, doped and unethical club shown to be shady and unethical and acting illegally. Shock!
I genuinely wouldn’t be shocked if FIFA or UEFA encourage or fund these investigations by journalists so that when it comes to light they get to fine these clubs for massive figures and get their chance to suck the oil straight from the teet.
There will be zero meaningful sanctions coming from this.
There will be zero meaningful sanctions coming from this.
Any journo's in England reporting this? Same as last time probably not. Good way to weed out those on the take which looks like 99% of them.
If those documents are stolen/hacked, you can understand why our press aren't running with them.
I honestly don't see why they decided to do things this way, instead of just going to court against UEFA for FFP, when in all likelihood it should have been an easy win for them.
Der RagSpiegel
Stop the presses....
With big money comes big lawyers that are paid to find big loopholes. Why is this a surprise?
By FFP rules you're automatically excluded from European competitions (equivalent to the highest FFP sanction) if you challenge UEFA on civil court, and the process can take years.
That probably explain some things, though I wouldn't be surprised if UEFA would have backed down if they were sues at a civil court. Cause as you said if the process took a few years, then when City/PSG would have won, UEFA would have needed to pay hundreds of millions of euros as compensation which would have fecked UEFA for good.
Some journalists in the UK made names for themselves over the years by printing news from questionable ‘sources’, including tapping phones and the like.
I could be wrong but since the UEFA is a confederation aren't the federations supposed to also suspend the club? I seem to remember that twist in a belgian case.
They can flout away as long as they stop the vermin down the East Lancs Road from winning the title this season as far as I’m concerned.
You need to think about the big picture...
Leeds used to be one of our big rivals, now they're shite. We should accept cheating on this level just to spite our rivals.
True. Coverage in the UK had been weak.
Couldn't the FA deny them a new PL license for next year if this proves to be true? I think punishment like this should be an option if a club puts this much criminal energy into hiding their revenue streams.
I wonder when football will collapse? It's been booming for years, but we're starting to see the greed spill out onto the turf with all these billionaires blatantly breaking the rules to such an extent where every football fan and their dog knows what's happening yet the powers that be are doing nothing?
Something's gotta give.
Something's gotta give.
I don't think that is possible considering EPL is a corporation, I think 19 clubs in the EPL could kick City out of the league even though having the majority of votes if they felt that City has done damages to the league.