For the Grealish buy alone they should be closed down.
Don’t get excited, don’t get excited, don’t get excited
For someone that doesn’t know much about football, what does this mean exactly? They spent too much?
If you break the rules over nine seasons, then surely your punishment needs to also be spread over nine seasons?
A points deduction for a single year, no matter how onerous doesn’t properly reflect the advantage held over a period of time which is reflected in prize money and becomes an accumulating advantage.
It seems that for it to be fair it needs to be a penalty that impedes them by the advantage gained, for the period of time plus a punitive aspect. For example a 15 point penalty per year for 15 years.
I don’t think “numerous” quite does justice to ONE HUNDRED offences.
Hopefully Chelsea next. Their spending is out of control.
This is interesting for a number of reasons, not only for City and their fans but also you have to look at Chelsea and their massive spending of late, Newcastle’s new ownership and how they plan to invest, and then there are the sales of Liverpool and Manchester United on the horizon which could potentially be derailed if a crackdown on financial doping leads to tighter rules. In reality, a fine and a transfer ban for 12 months is the likeliest outcome, I’d imagine.
Numerous breaches makes it sound like a couple 🤣. It’s 98 though which an astronomical amount.
A quick blast to the past.
Sunderland AFC were the most successful team in the league, and arguably the biggest team in England.
It turned out we were making illegal payments to players, the club never fully recovered.
Here’s a great article about it, written just before we were relegated to League One a few years back.
I grew up with this club. Father and uncles grew up on Kippax Street, so Maine Road was within spitting distance of their front door. I went to a lot of games as a kid, from the Rosler and Kidkladze days through until Keegan dragged them from division 2 to the premiership. I’ve never been to the Etihad, I lost interest after the Saudi purchase, because I knew it would lead to them buying their way to a title. I’m sure there are fans that would crucify me for disloyalty but what I loved about those days past was the community feel at every game. It felt close knit. Stadiums make you feel like a drop in the ocean, even when the crowd are engaged.
Retroactive points deduction.
I’ll take the 3 titles please.
Financial Irregularities killed Rangers FC…
That wasn’t too long ago.
All of English football is just one big, grotesque runaway train nowadays. Not just Man City. They are all in it. An egregiously overbloated Jabba the Hutt type monster that creates out of touch millionaires and billionaires by attracting the money of the masses who are addicted to it like heroine. The world’s most soulless and boring hit.
Not a football fan but I seriously doubt anything will come of it, they will get away with it because they have insane amounts of money to spend on lawyers. Like most who have this level of wealth, they won’t have any punishment other than a wrist slap if that and it’ll be swept under the rug.
Criminals. Eject them from the league and Dock 50 points every year since the criminality began.
Would this mean they have to forfeit any of their titles?
And the charges will amount to precisely fuck all. There’s no point getting excited
relegation almost feel pointless because they’d be back in a year unless they fucking got rid of everyone.
I doubt the PL will do anythimg other than fine them smh
Just a coincidence that the investigation is finished when City are having an off season anyway.
They have to hit them where it hurts – in the wallet. So no European participation for several seasons and a huge fine.
I mean numerous Tory MP’s have done similar and much worse and were never punished? I vote city receive the same treatment this current Tory government have and be let off scott free?
Some of the big teams look like they’ve been taking the piss even more than Man City, so I guess it’ could be a good time to put money on Brighton to win the league either this season or next?
HMRC should do a full investigation of all premiership clubs.
Every PL club is fiddling their figures to try and dodge FFP.
“numerous breaches”
Over 100, title heavily downplays the case against them
Sanctions should be severe but they won’t be. The government is quite happy to crow against sportswashing then approve takeover deals of big Premier league clubs by those same nations. I can’t think rule breaking will be punished harshly.
What they should get is a stadium ban for a season, transfer ban on new players in totality so no loans or free agents. Hit them where it hurts, they have long benefitted from manipulating the figures to outspend their rivals on key players
Newcastle should learn from this and not try any of this dodgy shit, their team is already healthy enough that “modest” investment would serve them well. People would respect the team a lot more if they went about building in this sort of way.
Relegate the cheats and strip them of their titles. An example must be made to other foreign owners who think they can just buy a team and then buy trophies. Hollow ,empty achievements. If this was an athlete cheating taking performance enhancing drugs they would be stripped of they medals/titles and their name would be mud.
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For the Grealish buy alone they should be closed down.
Don’t get excited, don’t get excited, don’t get excited
For someone that doesn’t know much about football, what does this mean exactly? They spent too much?
If you break the rules over nine seasons, then surely your punishment needs to also be spread over nine seasons?
A points deduction for a single year, no matter how onerous doesn’t properly reflect the advantage held over a period of time which is reflected in prize money and becomes an accumulating advantage.
It seems that for it to be fair it needs to be a penalty that impedes them by the advantage gained, for the period of time plus a punitive aspect. For example a 15 point penalty per year for 15 years.
I don’t think “numerous” quite does justice to ONE HUNDRED offences.
Hopefully Chelsea next. Their spending is out of control.
This is interesting for a number of reasons, not only for City and their fans but also you have to look at Chelsea and their massive spending of late, Newcastle’s new ownership and how they plan to invest, and then there are the sales of Liverpool and Manchester United on the horizon which could potentially be derailed if a crackdown on financial doping leads to tighter rules. In reality, a fine and a transfer ban for 12 months is the likeliest outcome, I’d imagine.
Numerous breaches makes it sound like a couple 🤣. It’s 98 though which an astronomical amount.
A quick blast to the past.
Sunderland AFC were the most successful team in the league, and arguably the biggest team in England.
It turned out we were making illegal payments to players, the club never fully recovered.
Here’s a great article about it, written just before we were relegated to League One a few years back.
https://rokerreport.sbnation.com/2018/1/9/16850458/why-are-sunderland-so-sh-t-dad-its-because-of-straw-son-lessons-handed-down-for-50-years
I grew up with this club. Father and uncles grew up on Kippax Street, so Maine Road was within spitting distance of their front door. I went to a lot of games as a kid, from the Rosler and Kidkladze days through until Keegan dragged them from division 2 to the premiership. I’ve never been to the Etihad, I lost interest after the Saudi purchase, because I knew it would lead to them buying their way to a title. I’m sure there are fans that would crucify me for disloyalty but what I loved about those days past was the community feel at every game. It felt close knit. Stadiums make you feel like a drop in the ocean, even when the crowd are engaged.
Retroactive points deduction.
I’ll take the 3 titles please.
Financial Irregularities killed Rangers FC…
That wasn’t too long ago.
All of English football is just one big, grotesque runaway train nowadays. Not just Man City. They are all in it. An egregiously overbloated Jabba the Hutt type monster that creates out of touch millionaires and billionaires by attracting the money of the masses who are addicted to it like heroine. The world’s most soulless and boring hit.
Not a football fan but I seriously doubt anything will come of it, they will get away with it because they have insane amounts of money to spend on lawyers. Like most who have this level of wealth, they won’t have any punishment other than a wrist slap if that and it’ll be swept under the rug.
Criminals. Eject them from the league and Dock 50 points every year since the criminality began.
Would this mean they have to forfeit any of their titles?
And the charges will amount to precisely fuck all. There’s no point getting excited
relegation almost feel pointless because they’d be back in a year unless they fucking got rid of everyone.
I doubt the PL will do anythimg other than fine them smh
Just a coincidence that the investigation is finished when City are having an off season anyway.
They have to hit them where it hurts – in the wallet. So no European participation for several seasons and a huge fine.
I mean numerous Tory MP’s have done similar and much worse and were never punished? I vote city receive the same treatment this current Tory government have and be let off scott free?
Some of the big teams look like they’ve been taking the piss even more than Man City, so I guess it’ could be a good time to put money on Brighton to win the league either this season or next?
HMRC should do a full investigation of all premiership clubs.
Every PL club is fiddling their figures to try and dodge FFP.
“numerous breaches”
Over 100, title heavily downplays the case against them
Sanctions should be severe but they won’t be. The government is quite happy to crow against sportswashing then approve takeover deals of big Premier league clubs by those same nations. I can’t think rule breaking will be punished harshly.
What they should get is a stadium ban for a season, transfer ban on new players in totality so no loans or free agents. Hit them where it hurts, they have long benefitted from manipulating the figures to outspend their rivals on key players
Newcastle should learn from this and not try any of this dodgy shit, their team is already healthy enough that “modest” investment would serve them well. People would respect the team a lot more if they went about building in this sort of way.
Relegate the cheats and strip them of their titles. An example must be made to other foreign owners who think they can just buy a team and then buy trophies. Hollow ,empty achievements. If this was an athlete cheating taking performance enhancing drugs they would be stripped of they medals/titles and their name would be mud.