+ 3 match ban for PatriceThe jury verdict was leaked in Norway:
Red card for Casemiro
+ 3 match ban for PatriceThe jury verdict was leaked in Norway:
Red card for Casemiro
He's really happy to see him.Why is his coat pocket bulging like that then?
Bravo! Well said.Hard to see anything significant happening. The reality is the average fan seems to be completely okay with a foreign state owning them (see City, Newcastle whose fans now are chainsaw enthusiasts, the hard-ons many on here had for Qatar) and injecting money from outside football into it.
But it is also wider than that, the players seem to be fine with it too, FIFA seems to be loving it (stay tuned for the women’s World Cup in Saudi), La Liga playing the super cup in Riyadh, etc. Other sports are at it too (e.g WTA)
This is focusing on football, but there is even a wider ongoing sale of businesses, properties, and assets in Europe to the highest bidder worldwide (which mostly ends up being one of the gulf countries or some American PE firm).
Short term gains are the name of the game; the hell with the wider picture or the long term repercussions of all your institutions and assets being foreign owned.
Maybe you can just share what he's saying?
That it'll be a financial punishment, and that's it.Whats he said?
Their plan from day 1 was to delay and simply not cooperate, given where all the sponsor funds originate the PL can't really go and get any proof of it. I think their plan is literally to stonewall and essentially say they can't find or can't provide for political reasons as much as possible to the point nothing can be definitively proven. So they get a shit load of fines, which would cripple a normal club, but their sponsors just eat it.I still fail to see how it will be just a financial punishment when other teams are being docked points for far lesser offences. Also what's the point in a financial punishment anyway? It'll be pocket change to those bastards.
Here they go again
I still fail to see how it will be just a financial punishment when other teams are being docked points for far lesser offences. Also what's the point in a financial punishment anyway? It'll be pocket change to those bastards.
can't they just be kicked and told to feck off and go form their own league with the rest of the "City Group" clubs where they can sponsor themselves to their hearts content?
Just feck off
How dare they try and punish the mighty Manchester City.No they can't. City are too rich for the PL to do anything to them. They have too much political influence for a body like PL to touch them.
Like most organizations, the PL only care about their bottom line.
It's Abu Dhabi princes they are punishing - which was his point.How dare they try and punish the mighty Manchester City.
How dare they try and punish the mighty Manchester City.
Same as before I guess. Chelsea, Villa and Newcastle.Chelsea and Villa and maybe Forest?
I think that’s a load of bollocks personally.It is pretty obvious that it doesn't have anything to do with the name of the club, the size of the club rather than who owns the club.
This could be Barnet Football club and it would be the same. Its the Abu Dabhi Group they cannot punish as there will be political implications which the PL are too scared about.
I think that’s a load of bollocks personally.
Their plan from day 1 was to delay and simply not cooperate, given where all the sponsor funds originate the PL can't really go and get any proof of it. I think their plan is literally to stonewall and essentially say they can't find or can't provide for political reasons as much as possible to the point nothing can be definitively proven. So they get a shit load of fines, which would cripple a normal club, but their sponsors just eat it.
It's not the league's decision, is it?I expect them to get points docked but the league is waiting until nearer the end of the season so they can see how many points can be docked without affecting them in the slightest.
No they can't. City are too rich for the PL to do anything to them. They have too much political influence for a body like PL to touch them.
Like most organizations, the PL only care about their bottom line.
It'll be borderline impossible for the PL to give them a financial punishment only. A financial punishment will likely be part of it but it will certainly not be the extent of it if the charges are proven. This stuff around court cases against City in the event they are docked points isn't true, the member clubs of the PL have to sign up to set of rules that means any dispute between them is arbitrated by the league itself.Why not? Its quite obvious that it will be a financial punishment.
The Premier League are not looking at fair play or anything like that, they are looking at the product.
City getting punished via points opens them up to high profile court cases back and forth where the PL is tarnished. Compare that to a £20/30m fine, which would mean money in the pocket for the PL teams.
Man City and PL have actually pulled a blinder here, PL get paid, City get away with cheating, by doing exactly what they been doing for years, paying their way out of trouble. Its exactly how top level businesses in the Middle East work.
The best bit is, the cost of this is to be paid by other PL clubs, as the legal fees for this case is funded by the revenue TV rights for 19 other PL clubs.
They punished Everton, Forrest and the like to send a small statement to say.... cheating is not allowed unless you have deep pockets to pay of the PL.
The fact they are doing this again shows just how desperate the situation is. Those APT rules have been reworded and that rewording has been approved by all but 4 clubs. For them to try and swing that favour in their favour and bring fresh action against the PL proves they know they are about to get absolutely battered on the 115.Here they go again
It'll be borderline impossible for the PL to give them a financial punishment only. A financial punishment will likely be part of it but it will certainly not be the extent of it if the charges are proven. This stuff around court cases against City in the event they are docked points isn't true, the member clubs of the PL have to sign up to set of rules that means any dispute between them is arbitrated by the league itself.
Arsenal couldn't sue Man City in the traditional sense if it were proven that financial cheating deprived them of a title. If the charges are sustained they'll be given the biggest points deduction in the history of the sport (likely enough to relegate them) and there will be a financial punishment that sits alongside that, primarily to fulfil the compensation claims of other member clubs.
It's impossible for the PL to sustain these charges and not punish with a points deduction.
Hence why they were allowed to spend 10% of the TOTAL monies spent in the entire world of all leagues during the january transfer window
Chelsea and Villa and maybe Forest?