I call that horrible genocide enabler whatever I want.
City and Financial Doping | Charged by PL with numerous FFP breaches
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That would be funny but I was talking about fans. If no fans attended any matches (home or away) involving Man City then the clubs would get off their bums.
Ah fair. That too.
I know it makes zero difference but I never ever watch them. The last time I saw them play was the FA Cup final against us.
I've been told for decades on here (regarding the Glazers) that's it is a nonsensical suggestion to ask supporters to boycott.
You're right of course, but if supporters can't boycott over actions of their own club, what makes you think they would boycott over the actions of another club?
The difference is that we have spent money due to the club growing based on footballing success and popularity over decades. We have generated a lot of money and spent a lot of money. They however, were just a crap club in a big footballing city that have been hijacked for sports washing
Yup, same. I now genuinely have no resentment towards Liverpool winning the league ahead of them. They’ve cheated for years, they got away with a lot because certain rules weren’t in place. Yet despite all their success they are still trying to exploit, bend rules and reject reforms that try to bring fairness into the game. A truly vile and despicable club.
The Premier League simply have to win this battle against them. If they don’t, the league is seriously fecked even more than it already is.
Startup isn't exactly accurate - they are a new company formed from a merger of two previously existing ones. Biocore has been around for a while and has been instrumental in implementing a lot of equipment changes in the NFL to try to mitigate injuries.
What a world we live in when I find myself agreeing with this sentiment.
I’m still hoping Arsenal or Villa will win it to save myself the Liverpool or Citeh no-win situation.
Steady on
City winning is far better, it's just a nothingness, Liverpool winning is the worst outcome of any season
I used to think that, but now it’s starting to all feel a little pointless. I’d actually rather be beaten to the title by Liverpool than City. At least then it would feel like we gave it our all and the best football team won. When City win, it just feels like the best legal team won.
PL needs to come down hard on these feckers.
The league would be infinitely better without them.
But you're a critical, well informed fan. For most people out there (specially outside of Europe and to a certain extent LatAm) Man City has established itself as huge and important sporting institution, right up there with the likes of Real Madrid, Bayern and the Premiership giants. And they know that this is has happened under the stewardship of the Emirati state.
It doesn't stand alone (the rise of Dubai as a tourist destination, Emirates becoming the biggest carrier in the world), but all these things play together to embellish their regimes. It's the same with Qatar and PSG, The difference is that those guys haven't been as good at developing the sporting side of things.
Such a detestable, despicable club. I fecking despise them.
How hilarious that they’ve objected under the grounds of ‘English competition law’, which is there to ensure fair competition….the very thing they’re trying to avoid
Can we just vote them out of the premier league? Having multi year long legal battles to stop their blatant cheating is just tiresome. You'll close one door to cut their bullshit and they'll bulldoze 3 new ones in. They have no intention of playing by the rules, they cant even be bothered hiding their rampant cheating. Just bin them. The league would be better for it.
An argument i've heard is that its not so much positive thought they're seeking as just being thought of. Your far more aware of them than you were 20 years ago i'd think
If it’s an old horror film the monstrous alien entity that takes over the most boring person in the village goes up and tries a winning smile on the village policeman … “I’m being bullied”. Man, am I going to enjoy the sequel.
Who would have thought letting this mob into football would have this effect.
At least City being the only club taking legal action over the rule changes gives the Premier League another good reason to push for City to be relegated if they are found guilty, relegate them and the court action along with the associated fees goes away.
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It is indeed a terrible situation to find ourselves in. I hate Liverpool but- respect where it is due- they like us are a proper football club. Citeh are an oil- money club manufactured to win titles by any means necessary, up to and including fiddling the system. They’re experts at it, and to me represent most of what I detest about the current political world. So, though I never thought I’d say it, I’d prefer them to take the title over Citeh. That said, I’m still hoping for Villa.
Not only that one of their main private equity investors is Clearlake.
Hear, hear. Let’s just have football clubs in the league? If you are a nation state pretending to be a football club, see you next Tuesday. The damage across the league to genuine clubs (and we know these are all far from perfect) is too much. We need to believe in football. For that City must be voted out, banned indefinitely, or at least until they become an ordinary football club with football priorities and football resources.
Of course it is better if the owners of City buy another title.
It is void anyways.
No way I want the victims to win it.
It is void anyways.
No way I want the victims to win it.
Can’t put the genie back in the bottle. The time to get tough with these feckers was around 15 years ago.
I have some hope. Everton’s point deduction completely shut down the winter transfer market. As soon as teams are shown rules will be enforced, they follow them (ironically, just like players with referees).
And PL have painted themselves into a corner. They’ve got to see it through now, after 115 charges.
This is true, but in some ways they’re just too powerful for it to matter. I mean, they’re threatening to sue the PL for trying to keep them in line! If they’d kept them on a proper lead in 2008 this wouldn’t be happening.
City are a monster so out of control that they’re outraged when the governing bodies try to keep a lid on things. All the while they’ve won numerous trophies, a treble, and have the best team and coach in world football. It all feels a bit ‘too little too late’.
Agree. The whole thing is a mess. And as for an independent regulator, that just means a different set of people to pay off/bribe/pressurise. If anything it could be more at risk of political pressure, e.g. the government's "we can't possibly risk pissing off the Saudis" general stance.
The game is fecked, we just have to accept that and find the entertainment where we can.
They won’t be relegated instantly, they have 115 charges my guess is some will be proven and a points deduction’s of 20-30 points giving in the season of 2024/25 and a two window transfer ban. They will be immediately appeal and the points deduction overturned. They will threaten the PL with unfair regulations to run their business, however they signed the Pl rules and regulations like all over 20 clubs,
I know. Must have been fully xanaxed up when posting that. Let's forgive them and move on.Again though, is that a good thing? Making people think of you when you are quite scummy seems silly. My opinion on these countries hasn't really changed that much in the past 15 years and if it has, its been in the wrong direction for sure.
It's a nonsense argument mate
How does mainstream media carry on congratulating City when they know for a fact that it is empty and worthless?
Watching MOTD and it’s cringeworthy.
Are they THAT worried about lawsuits?
Watching MOTD and it’s cringeworthy.
Are they THAT worried about lawsuits?
In that case, why don’t they call it out for the farce that it is?
Its because they have to keep up the pretence that the league is fair and competitive so as not to risk fans gradually losing interest. Its the same for mainstream media in general - if interest wanes so will the number of viewers/listeners/clicks etc
If City are found guilty and punished accordingly the exact same sources will villainise them to capitalise on audience sentiment
They will, they have had 10 years or more to prepare.
It's that and it's also little, quite pathetic, things like City looking after the media very well. I've heard from more than one smug cnut journalist on football podcasts that City's hospitality is by far the best in the league. City feed and water them well so they're not going to risk spoiling that little perk of the job.
It’s all these things… plus the fact that City haven’t been convicted. Until the case is tried, there is only so much you can reasonably expect broadcasters to say.
Everyone knew Lance Armstrong (and pretty much all top riders at the time) were juiced to the gills. You never heard a peep about it during races - nor would you expect to.
Currently watching their game against Everton and think it’s fecking hilarious that a treble winning team has tons of empty seats at home. What a pathetic club.