That'll do.
City and Financial Doping | Charged by PL with 130 FFP breaches | Hearing begins 16th Sep 2024 | Concluded 9th Dec 2024 - Awaiting outcome
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Their lot still questioning whether they have proof, i mean fecking hell...
Juventus
Bye bye
Imagine being a City fan. What a tragic little club.
So the PL are judge, jury and execution? Wow, they're totally fecked on this one.
This should be an eye opener for any potential new owners if they thought they could go down the City route.
I’ve not seen many people say this but I agree, there’s no way teams will accept being relegated/not getting Europe etc whilst City get a fine for deliberate false accounting.
I always said they'd get their titles stripped at some point. Horrible little plastic disgrace of a club, not even their fans have enjoyed their plastic rise
Only one of the 98 breaches has to stick i think, and theyre fecked
No you're wrong, they stopped cooperating in 2018. They stopped to try avoid the league from looking into their dealings.
All the PL clubs, most of Europe who is being shafted by the same sanctions in their leagues. They're screwed.
If they are guilty of hiding things from contracts and paying players or staff off-book, isn't that the same as money laundering?
Which is fecking dodgy as hell in itself!
All well and good punishing City but surely something should be done about Chelsea too?
Just a couple of thoughts on nuclear options...
1. The PL's fit and proper owners test is reviewed every season.
2. If they have failed to provide proper accounts, can't HMRC ban all the directors?
1. The PL's fit and proper owners test is reviewed every season.
2. If they have failed to provide proper accounts, can't HMRC ban all the directors?
Don't know if this has been mentioned already but I'm really surprised by this, I thought the CAS is like the Supreme Court of sports and they would have a final say over everything. Didn't know City won't be able to go to them.
and opens them up to another 5yrs of potential wrongdoing
Weve been here before many many times, we know how this goes down.
The indipendant regulator will be hit , most likely personally by the club, well never know about it but they will almost definitely use underhanded tactics to effect the outcome of all this.
I think well see a hefty fine and maybe one or two window transfer ban and maybe , just maybe a 5 point deduction or something symbolic like that, which is essentially nothing to them.
It will be rigged in a way that will seem like a light punishment but they ultimately get away with it.
I think they should be relegated and stripped of all titles in the period being investigated.
The integrity of the league is compromised.
The indipendant regulator will be hit , most likely personally by the club, well never know about it but they will almost definitely use underhanded tactics to effect the outcome of all this.
I think well see a hefty fine and maybe one or two window transfer ban and maybe , just maybe a 5 point deduction or something symbolic like that, which is essentially nothing to them.
It will be rigged in a way that will seem like a light punishment but they ultimately get away with it.
I think they should be relegated and stripped of all titles in the period being investigated.
The integrity of the league is compromised.
It only goes up to 2018 because City have failed to provide the necessary documentation after that date, which they're also charged with failure to comply. So there's potentially another 5 years of charges in the post.
Pep is already on the cusp of a mental breakdown, I can see him walking sooner rather than later tbh. The guy burnt out managing the best team in football at Barca.
fixed
Haaland setting new records in the Championship
Honestly, if they get away with it again I can see myself falling out of love with it. Really makes the whole thing pointless if cheaters gonna cheat.
And I’m guessing the reason they aren’t cooperating with 2018 onwards is because they’re not time barred from UEFA
Pep made such a money focused choice going there, you’d have to be the biggest of mugs to believe he had no idea.
Pep quote from last year:
Off to book the parade…
On a more serious note, surely a lot of clubs and players could claim they’ve lost earnings revenue and CL places etc off the back of this?
Not sure about the retrospective stripping and awarding of titles.
On a more serious note, surely a lot of clubs and players could claim they’ve lost earnings revenue and CL places etc off the back of this?
Not sure about the retrospective stripping and awarding of titles.
Will go to the High Court
That’s big news. No right to appeal any decision. They could be screwed this time round. Especially with no time bar on how far back the investigations can go.
When Rangers had their trouble back in 2012, the other SPL clubs voted to block their readmission to the league. Could the other clubs in the EPL act in the same way to City?
Looks severe. Don't think points deduction or transfer ban is going to cut it. They should be forced to sign Lukaku and Ronaldo and play them up front for the next 3 years.
If Mancini had off the books deals with City, you can bet that Pep has something to hide as well.
It only goes up to 2018 because City have basically refused to hand over any information after that.
They've clearly still been cheating since 2018 so I imagine there will be even more charges to come.
I know they got away with it last time, but this feels much much more airtight and serious. They're fecked.
They've clearly still been cheating since 2018 so I imagine there will be even more charges to come.
I know they got away with it last time, but this feels much much more airtight and serious. They're fecked.
To be fair it only affects about 48 people.
For full justice yes but the danger to City if everything sticks means it’ll be a halfway house. Would still get relegated but they’d still have a club at the end of it.
Can see it being quickly done and widely affected by the rest of us simply because we don’t know what the alternative would be and this is shocking enough.
Surely to feck the owners would be barred from running an English club? How can they not be?
Pep is not stupid. He knew all along.