CITY'S GOING DOWN WITH A BILLION IN THE BANK!
City and Financial Doping | Charged by PL with numerous FFP breaches
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Disgusting behaviour. I don't know how their fans ever celebrated a single win.
Difficult to see them getting an appropriate punishment, even a single relegation is barely anything taking into account the advantages they will permanently now have from years of cheating, and the effect its had on other clubs who've missed out on qualification and trophies thanks to City's cheating.
They should be handicapped for a long, long time and even that wouldn't make up for it - at least relegation to League 2 and a long term ban from European competition.
They should be handicapped for a long, long time and even that wouldn't make up for it - at least relegation to League 2 and a long term ban from European competition.
About time. I hope they really dig into inflated commercial deals and suspected second salaries for some players and staff
I don't expect the commission to do much, they will already be tapped up.
But HMRC is a different story. They will be going after individuals as well as the business if they get involved.
But HMRC is a different story. They will be going after individuals as well as the business if they get involved.
“We thought we had covered our tracks sufficiently and we welcome the odd bit of shit they can dig up…”
Looking forward to that on Wednesday
We finished 5th on goal difference to City prior to Peps first season.
It’s outrageous. It’s club and career history altering
City "welcome" the review by an "impartial" Independent Commission.
Yeah, sooooo, bribery then.
Yeah, sooooo, bribery then.
Whatever the outcome of this - all of the allegations are there and are of substance. So all the other clubs could forever just point at them if they get allegations of their own - that if City are cleared. This will be such a massive thing in the public opinion of the Premier League. So I guess they have already lost. It’s the Premier League itself doing this, the same organisation that City is a part of. They want to clean their own house I guess.
A billion in fake sponsorships
Punishment should include 20 matches English competition ban for the current manager and his ex assistant.
A points deduction and a financial slap on the wrist is the least they deserve. This needs to be big.
They barely did, to be fair.
If this is found to be true, can the players themselves also get into trouble, get fined, bans, tax fraud prison time?
Nah, the money laundering opportunities are too great. Allegedly.
The pl don't do independent commissions, right? It's their way or the high way* if I remember us trying to do the same with the Suarez racism.
*Of course, this may be the ideal time for the PL to get uber, uber rich now. So a small points deduction in a PL season that's meaningless to them and a penalty fine. Justice is served!
They need to add up all the money other clubs lost through their duplicity, make them compensate those club, then fine them the same amount. Big points deduction as well.
Its the knock on effect though.
Pep goes, the big name players go, no one wants to play for them, no European football..
They may not come straight back up
Haaland's dad on phone to Real as we speak.
Fixed your post
Ryan Mason should be known as a FA cup winning manager From now on
I will get a tattoo of tits on my forehead if any meaningful punishment happens. Probably a fine at most a ban from CL of a year. City has bought everyone in world football.
Imagine this happens and their owners piss off
Hopefully Sir Jim Ratcliffe is on the phone to Haalands dad, telling him to chill a bit until he takes over the club
Well said. Dismantle them.
If they are found quilty of cheating for 14 seasons then the reputation of the PL and English football is at stake...What effects on the PL would there be from Uefa/Fifa is this is not handled well? Relegation and stripped of their titles surely would follow from the PL commission ..otherwise the PL looks a tainted league and trust will crumble.
Crazy that United have won 3 titles during this time period if no City existed...
Make or break for the premier league this.
Soft on city and let them get away with countless years of cheating, which has robbed teams of European football, allowing clubs to keep hold of players by essential paying them huge sums off the books.
There’s a reason no one ever gets poached from city.
Then it paves the way to do what you want and 20+ years down the line the premier league is the super league, or take a stand keep it as competitive as you can (always gonna be advantages to the bigger earners) and keep the core of the product which has made it so successful to this day.
Soft on city and let them get away with countless years of cheating, which has robbed teams of European football, allowing clubs to keep hold of players by essential paying them huge sums off the books.
There’s a reason no one ever gets poached from city.
Then it paves the way to do what you want and 20+ years down the line the premier league is the super league, or take a stand keep it as competitive as you can (always gonna be advantages to the bigger earners) and keep the core of the product which has made it so successful to this day.
Pretty sure this opens City up to legal actions from other clubs. They might actually disappear
Yep, also their wage bill would need some extreme "trimming" with a lower league level income and sponsorships
- least not because i would assume most of their current sponsors are those inflated/fake ones who've gotten them in trouble!Be surprised if anything happens, it'll just be a fine. Remember that European ban fiasco. Whatever the announcement, they'll appeal and get a slap on the wrist.
Including 2 in the post SAF era, makes you wonder …
100+ breaches... This makes Breaking Bad look like a minor traffic violation.
If they get relegated, you have to wonder whether any of those players would stick around.
They would literally have to buy their way back to the top again.
They would literally have to buy their way back to the top again.
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer - Premier League-winning manager.
If the outcome is only a fine then why should any club give two fecks about FFP!
Your pessimism is well founded.
City managed to get Andrew McDougall as an arbiter (despite multiple lawyers questioning his neutrality) in the CAS case. Just at a glance you can visibly see he’s not fit to be a neutral party - he ran White and Case’s MENA office and had Etisalat and Etihad as bloody clients.
Oh and the chairman (therefore making up 2 of the 3 man panel along with Andrew McDougall) Rui Santos was recommended by City…