City and Financial Doping | Charged by PL with numerous FFP breaches

[Bastian]

Their treble is meaningless considering the charges I'm indifferent to their successes

Same here. There'll be a media adore fest - which has already begun with licking off Pep, but it's all hollow. A very good team but cheats.

 

[Stookie]

Plastic trophies for a plastic club.

 

[Tom Van Persie]

Cheating scumbags.

 

[DevTheRed]

Just me that couldn’t care less?

Means nothing if you can break endless rules, regulations AND have unlimited money.

 

[Giant Midget]

Just me that couldn’t care less?

Means nothing if you can break endless rules, regulations AND have unlimited money.

With the unlimited money financed in part by literal human slavery.

Damn shame for football, regardless of whichever club you support.

 

[VeevaVee]

The thing is, outside of us United fans, no one seems to care...

It's the media that's the problem. They get tonnes of shit on Twitter and Reddit.

 

[Devil81]

Hate this.

Absolutely destroyed our biggest part of history with money.

Tonight has made me want to walk away from football.

 

[justboy68]

Tired of the media covering for them. News flash most of the county hate City and they barely have any of their own fans. Going in hard on them would be more popular. Tonight really felt like one of the darkest days in football. A culminating showcase of the sad decline of the beautiful game. Slowly killed ever since Abramovic bought Chelsea in 2003.

 

[TheNewEra]

I reckon city will overtake our European tally soon

 

[DavidDeSchmikes]

Nothing is going to happen. We're too far gone now.
Maybe a slap on the wrist, but that's it, I'm afraid

 

[Ronaldo's ego]

Someone slash their parade bus tyres.

 

[Ayoba]

I reckon city will overtake our European tally soon

Yup. I can see them dominating the CL Madrid style for a few years now.

 

[Red Stone]

Hate this.

Absolutely destroyed our biggest part of history with money.

Tonight has made me want to walk away from football.

This doesn't diminish our Treble as an achievement at all. But yeah, I feel like the game is dying and this is certainly not helping. It's getting harder and harder to care.

 

[Sgreddevil]

When can they be punished and get relegated to league 2?
Any other kind of punishments will have no impact or effect.
Once they get relegated to lower division (not just championship), no players will stay and waste 3 to 4 years of their peak years playing for the club. However i don't think they have the balls to do that at all.

 

[Heinzesight]

Hate this.

Absolutely destroyed our biggest part of history with money.

Tonight has made me want to walk away from football.

Yeah it fecking stings but our treble shits all over theirs for numerous reasons. Be proud of our history. Don’t let an awful club, with an utterly embarrassing fanbase get you down. What we see now isn’t the City we grew up laughing at. It’s a relatively new club founded in 2008. Their name is a shit stain engraved into every trophy they win.

 

[united_99]

Hate this.

Absolutely destroyed our biggest part of history with money.

Tonight has made me want to walk away from football.

Well they didn’t destroy anything. Ours‘ actually got more important. Imagine if we hadn’t done it the Cheats‘ would have been the first.

 

[Fortitude]

What will be interesting is how Europe reacts to this. Before, it was an internal problem as their cheating was only affecting their domestic league, but they've now disrupted European order and knocked noses out of joint whilst doing so. Do they get to continue doing that unabated? If yes, they've truly broken football as we know it because prior to this, blatant cheating had reprimand that acted as a deterrent.

If they can just flout the rules, what is the point of said rules?

 

[JustAGuest]

Just me that couldn’t care less?

Means nothing if you can break endless rules, regulations AND have unlimited money.

You are definitely in the minority unfortunately. I also find all of that takes away from their achievements to the point it just feels empty. However, the media and wider football audience adores them so I will have to avoid anything football related for a while.

 

[Moriarty]

I reckon city will overtake our European tally soon

If it carries on like this, the EPL will be like the Bundesliga, or Ligue 1 where one team dominates and the rest scramble after the crumbs. What's more annoying is that if we hadn't been so poorly managed by the Glazers after 2013, and not led by a banker doing a job for which he was manifestly unsuited, we would be in a position to stop that domination.

 

[2mufc0]

It's really bad punditry and journalism that this is being brushed under carpet on TV, everytime this team is talked or written about there should be a section on it. Certainly should be discussed and known.

 

[2mufc0]

Problem is money talks, they'll somehow get away with it with a slap on the wrist.

 

[2mufc0]

Yeah it fecking stings but our treble shits all over theirs for numerous reasons. Be proud of our history. Don’t let an awful club, with an utterly embarrassing fanbase get you down. What we see now isn’t the City we grew up laughing at. It’s a relatively new club founded in 2008. They are a shit stain engraved into every trophy they win.

Yup.

Plus our run to the CL final was so fecking brutal, and we did it on the final without two of our best players.

 

[DevTheRed]

You are definitely in the minority unfortunately. I also find all of that takes away from their achievements to the point it just feels empty. However, the media and wider football audience adores them so I will have to avoid anything football related for a while.

Don’t get me wrong, it hurts. Especially after the FA Cup loss as well.

But in terms of them winning the treble.. I for one am surprised it’s taken them this long to achieve it, and in my opinion comes nowhere near our achievements in ‘99. Hopefully their titles get taken away in a few years, just have to wait till then!

 

[Pexbo]

It's really bad punditry and journalism that this is being brushed under carpet on TV, everytime this team is talked or written about there should be a section on it. Certainly should be discussed and known.

Sky, BT and the BBC (as far as the UK goes, can’t speak for other global networks) all pay an absolute fortune for their TV rights. There is no way in hell any of them are going to start shitting on the product they are selling by constantly reminding everyone that it’s all meaningless because the team sweeping up all the honours are guilty of systematic cheating.

 

[2mufc0]

Sky, BT and the BBC (as far as the UK goes, can’t speak for other global networks) all pay an absolute fortune for their TV rights. There is no way in hell any of them are going to start shitting on the product they are selling by constantly reminding everyone that it’s all meaningless because the team sweeping up all the honours are guilty of systematic cheating.

I'm not saying it's the only thing they have to talk about, but there should be a short discussion about the implications of it, all I'm asking for is a balanced analysis on them. They can talk about how good a football team they are (even I won't deny that) but the context should also be talked about.

And this is not just about the TV networks, even some of the articles written online rarely mention it.

 

[FrankFoot]

What will be interesting is how Europe reacts to this. Before, it was an internal problem as their cheating was only affecting their domestic league, but they've now disrupted European order and knocked noses out of joint whilst doing so. Do they get to continue doing that unabated? If yes, they've truly broken football as we know it because prior to this, blatant cheating had reprimand that acted as a deterrent.

If they can just flout the rules, what is the point of said rules?

Money talks, always has.

Al Khealifi is part of the UEFA committee, so that gives you an idea that nothing will happen to the likes of City, PSG, and Newcastle.

As long as you give big bribes to suits in high positions, you can get away with basically anything, this has always been the case.

 

[2mufc0]

Money talks, always has.

Al Khealifi is part of the UEFA committee, so that gives you an idea that nothing will happen to the likes of City, PSG, and Newcastle.

As long as you give big bribes to suits in high positions, you can get away with basically anything, this has always been the case.

Unfortunately it's the world we live in, the people with the most money have the most influence and can get away with pretty much anything.

 

[2 man midfield]

Hate this.

Absolutely destroyed our biggest part of history with money.

Tonight has made me want to walk away from football.

Yeah it definitely has a ‘end of the world as we know it’ feeling

 

[Irrational.]

This feels worse than 2012.

 

[RedRocket9908]

This feels worse than 2012.

2012 was worse, we had it in our hands but then lost in Wigan threw away the game against Everton and lost 1-0 at the Etihad in one of the poorest derbies ever to throw the title away.

 

[Pexbo]

I'm not saying it's the only thing they have to talk about, but there should be a short discussion about the implications of it, all I'm asking for is a balanced analysis on them. They can talk about how good a football team they are (even I won't deny that) but the context should also be talked about.

And this is not just about the TV networks, even some of the articles written online rarely mention it.

I agree. There absolutely should but for reasons given they won’t. They addressed it when the charges dropped and they will address it when a decision is made or we get an update but they’re not going to tarnish the image of the product they pay billions for.

 

[Rex Banner]

What will be interesting is how Europe reacts to this. Before, it was an internal problem as their cheating was only affecting their domestic league, but they've now disrupted European order and knocked noses out of joint whilst doing so. Do they get to continue doing that unabated? If yes, they've truly broken football as we know it because prior to this, blatant cheating had reprimand that acted as a deterrent.

If they can just flout the rules, what is the point of said rules?

UEFA already tried tbf. Would've been interesting to see what the last few years would have been like if that ban had been upheld.

 

[Kaos]

If they don't get any meaningful punishment (they won't), I hope we follow suit in telling FFP to feck itself. Only level playing field it seems.

 

[Zed is not dead]

Inter was the better team tonight. It goes to show again that this City team is still very mentally fragile.
Inter showed more hunger for the ball and with a bit more luck, would’ve come out as the winners.
Referee was also strange, blowing the whistle for every little contact in favor or City.

On another note, what a soulless celebration. From the players and the crowd.

I wonder if Pep will now leave. Perhaps he’ll take a few months off and then take charge of Spain before the Euros

I also suspect that we’ve seen the « best » of Grealish and he’ll now go down the path of too much partying and drinking thinking he’s made it

 

[Judas]

This feels worse than 2012.

Nowhere near for me. I still don't think I've felt that awful about a football match since, probably never will.

 

[croadyman]

Nothing is going to happen. We're too far gone now.
Maybe a slap on the wrist, but that's it, I'm afraid

May as well have spat in face of authority

 

[croadyman]

If they don't get any meaningful punishment (they won't), I hope we follow suit in telling FFP to feck itself. Only level playing field it seems.

Yep seems fair enough to me

 

[Sparky Rhiwabon]

With so many charges against them, why weren’t they suspended from competitions until they were cleared?

 

[Idxomer]

Nowhere near for me. I still don't think I've felt that awful about a football match since, probably never will.

Yeah, it isn't even close.

 

[2 man midfield]

If they don't get any meaningful punishment (they won't), I hope we follow suit in telling FFP to feck itself. Only level playing field it seems.

The PL need to think really carefully about what route they take with city. If they just fine them, they essentially legalise what they’ve done, and Newcastle and every other Middle Eastern owned club (which will be most before long) will follow suit. They could set a precedent, or they could nip it in the bud.