Exactly. Even if they get relegated all the players will stay as they'll be getting their payments off the books. There's no way you can stop corruption.
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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They will get fined and nothing more. The league doesn't have the bottle to do anything further.
Any sources to that?
UEFA have already said that they'd be happy to strip them of their Champions League titles...
He says that but I'd wager he'd actually be leaving because any punishments would mean he'd have to work within actual constraints
Still hasn’t sunk in yet that we’ve been cheated out of 3 titles in the last 10 years
How many European cups are in jeopardy?
I know,
I know,
The fpf has a big problem: is illegal. You can't forbid a property from spending its money on its company. The fpf serves to crystallize the positions of strength and prevent small teams from becoming big. If City is sanctioned and appeals to the court, the FPF will be canceled and the premier will have to repay the city with hundreds of millions.
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I am shocked at this news!!!
City? cooking the books...gobsmacked! it must be an admin error by the FA...hopefully it will be cleared up quickly in the next 4-6 years.
City? cooking the books...gobsmacked! it must be an admin error by the FA...hopefully it will be cleared up quickly in the next 4-6 years.
Huh. I always thought the pl tacitly approved of these tactics because this will help the league become the super league. I still believe that, but less so now.
Force them to replay all matches this season, except they´re not allowed to use any player they signed after 2010. See if Gareth Barry and Micah Richards fancy coming out of retirement
If they strip titles it's because of cheating financially, which affects every single game they play, mourinho would get a title if they start stripping totles
If I were the other PL teams I would refuse to play. Bring PL to it's knees.
Hmm... maybe that's why they've been underperforming. Maybe internally they know what's going on before this news came out.
Spending 4 years investigating only to slap a fine on them feels like it'd be wasted effort. We can only hope they'll get punished to the fullest extent that rules allow
It's crazy.
The knock on effect on other clubs is mind-blowing. Think of the amount of money lost by clubs not making CL because a cheating club was ahead of them.
Just massively unfair and depressing.
So the points total for winner would be lower. Theirs points have always been enhanced should be say.
If it’s from 2010 to 2018 then we’re due a couple of extra PL titles out of this were they to start stripping them. 
On the weekend Pep was crying about the letter the other premier leagues clubs signed against them whilst simultaneously moaning about Chelsea spending.
To be fair Redbull Racing didn't cook the books. They went over budget but not fraudulently. I think their punishment was fair.
What for? We've never spent outside of our means in terms of FFP. We went hard last summer but that's also why this month we couldn't do anything. United naturally just brings in massive money, city's problem was they claimed to be have the highest revenue in world football which is literally impossible compared to United, Bayern, Barca and Madrid.
Their punishment will be a financial slap on the wrist which will get announced the same day as when it is announced we have been sold and all the media will turn their attention towards any bad or dodgy stuff about our new owners
Don't forget the FA cup semi finals along with that
I meant it will be sending a warning to any potential owners not to go down the same route.
I'm curious how the Premier League would address the financial impact on other clubs that resulted from City's cheating. They've deprived United, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, and Spurs (and others to lesser degrees) of hundreds of millions of pounds in prize money and Champions League qualification money over the course of a decade.
People keep saying this but have you actually read the charges and what people who know the details are saying is the consequences?
Have you seen any evidence that backs that up?
I only say that because there were significant leaks concerning sponsorship income, but I’ve never seen anything in those leaks referring to players being paid off the books. You seem certain enough that you’d surely have seen at least some kind of evidence (hacked emails, whistle-blowing from ex-players/employees/agents ,tax investigations, money laundering regulations etc).
Super League incoming with Real plus the 19 other PL clubs instead of City. Perez playing 4D chess.
If nothing is done about this I'll be done with football.
If they get away with it again the other 19 teams in the league should just not turn up to matches against City.
If they get away with it again the other 19 teams in the league should just not turn up to matches against City.
Does Pep honestly expect us to believe he knew nothing of their financial doping?
Ah this is great. I'm so happy their years of cheating is finally being highlighted. Something will stick and I think they will be severely punished. Haaland playing in League One is just brilliant.
What are the lottery numbers for that week?
CITY'S GOING DOWN WITH A BILLION IN THE BANK!
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.