City have been financially doping?
Surely not!
Surely not!
City and Financial Doping | Charged by PL with numerous FFP breaches
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Teams that finished second when City won the league:
11-12: Man Utd (goal difference)
13-14: Liverpool (2 points behind)
17-18: Man Utd (19 points behind)
18-19: Liverpool (1 point behind)
20-21: Man Utd (12 points behind)
21-22: Liverpool (1 point behind)
If they're all stripped then there's still 1 gap between the two teams.
And 6 months in Strangeways for attempted murder.
So let's the options here
1. City receive a fine - probably the most likely
2. City are suspended from new player acquisitions - the club will probably be allowed to make transfer this summer though
3. City are docked points in the single digits - could happen and might mean Europa Cup for a season
4. City are docked 12 or more points - less likely but it will mean that the top 4 race opens up
5. City get relegated - very unlikely
1. City receive a fine - probably the most likely
2. City are suspended from new player acquisitions - the club will probably be allowed to make transfer this summer though
3. City are docked points in the single digits - could happen and might mean Europa Cup for a season
4. City are docked 12 or more points - less likely but it will mean that the top 4 race opens up
5. City get relegated - very unlikely
Yes that’s what I just learnt. This will make the outcome very interesting. As the premier league can go back as far as they need to. UEFA were hampered by a time bar which didn’t allow the so called transactions to be investigated despite an unspoken acknowledgement that they did happen.
Well, the difference here is that Juventus gained an advantage that extended outside of transfer activity and salaries. They actually cheated to gain the upper hand, once the ball had started rolling. That's something entirely different.
And this is not counting the “legal” bullshit I.e. overpricing corporate boxes and selling them
I’m not talking about Liverpool mate. Just Man City.
23 - 22 In our favour
Edit: sorry miscountedSmall fine and then forgotten about.
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They've been charged for the years they weren't cooperating.
They started cooperating in 2018.
Expand the charges! Ole needs his league title as manager
They should cancel the whole club.
I think it only goes up to the 17/18 season, meaning we’d have 22 titles, and Liverpool would have 20. Which is jokes.
Apparently they can’t applea to CAS either so this might actually happen lads and ladies ! Would post the link but once again I can’t
Inject it
If City get docked 12 points they still have a good chance of top 4, they’d only be 7 off Spurs.
Yet some people want a Middle East nation state to take over United because they’d have ‘more money’.
Honestly we should have been relegated many years ago for that "Clap your hands" video alone
Fine and transfer ban for a season. They won't be docked points and there will be no retrospective punishment.
Brexit means brexit
Have to admit i found it weird they were topping revenue charts. I see some of their fans thinking they will win this as they won the CAS/Uefa case. This is completely different...
Also asking do the league have proof.... id fecking expect so
I would say the reason its taken the long is to gather up the necessary (and above-board) proof of everything and make sure its watertight.
Probably longer, it'll be argued out for a long time, appeals, counter appeals etc then CAS will get involved and just let them get away with it like they did the UEFA CL ban/fine.
*Edit* Just saw they can't appeal to CAS... lovely.
The region isn't known for being kind to journalists.
Feck that! We're looking like finally getting rid of Wrexham this year.
so that could mean only titles up to 2018 get stripped. Meaning 2 for us and only 1 for the dippers. 22-20 - I could accept this
A fine to a club that signed world class players to be the backup to their world class players.
They better come down hard on them then. If they don't I can see the other PL clubs complaining.
I hope this is the beginning of the end for this disgusting club.
In the minds of most football fans, they surely already are. It would be only fair and correct for this to now happen anywhere they are committed to text, though.
Won't be surprised if this happens and the transfer ban will be suspended until 2024 so they can do their shopping beforehand
I’m all for voiding the seasons they won rather than awarding to second. That isn’t a fair reparation to all the teams who had to play them. Strip out their results with all teams and you might have different runners up, different CL runs, different relegations etc
Probably we would also see Stevie Me suit it up in full kit to kiss the 13/14 Premier League trophy.
Then they need to dock enough points to make sure they cannot get CL football. This is their chance.
The only way a fine is the most likely outcome is if you think they will be cleared on the vast majority of charges and punished for relatively minor infringements.
Can see this being a Red Bull breaching the cost cap punishment in the end though sadly where everyone is calling for the harshest punishments and all City get is a 15 million pound fine and 1 transfer window ban thats 3 windows in advance to stockpile players in advance.
This is going to go on for years considering the sheer scale of their cheating and everything will be appealed times infinity.
(Although can the Premier League be taken to the CAS?)
Retroactively punish them for previous seasons as them financially doping literally affected everyone else in the league.
This is going to go on for years considering the sheer scale of their cheating and everything will be appealed times infinity.
(Although can the Premier League be taken to the CAS?)
Retroactively punish them for previous seasons as them financially doping literally affected everyone else in the league.
Which is likely
I would say their future is on the line.
Mind, the ordinary justice in the ordinary trials that came in the following years acquitted all the people involved of any wrong doing… which is just incredible if you like, and yet that’s often the case so many times in history when you follow the Ok Corral rules to hang a villain at the nearest tree under the rage of the herds. And I do not really think the Emirates will accept such outcome with light heart and all their sportwashing effort to crumble, whatever the herds feel or want.
It's a bit ridiculous to be honest. They've been blatantly flouting the rules for years. The inflated sponsorships from companies who were obviously owned by the same people has been a complete piss-take.
Doesn't it only go from 09/10 to 17/18 at the moment. So we'd get two and Liverpool would get one. We'd extend our lead
Of course if the seasons after that aren't being included yet because they are refusing to provide the information needed, then you'd think they would ultimately get the same punishment.