Surely with the punishment handed out to Everton and Forest there's no turning back from this? They're fecked and if they aren't then it opens up even more trouble for the league.
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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Hope the Premier League come down on them hard. If this were us we’d never hear the end of it.
3 match ban for Casemiro
I dont know how all this works, but couldn't the PL effectively throw them out of the competition on their own say so.
You're not invited, goodbye
You're not invited, goodbye
Throw them out of the league and don't let them back in
Pretty sure they could be thrown out with 14/20 votes.
They are the vilest club in history.
The Donald Trump of football.
The Donald Trump of football.
What an absolutely shameless, scummy club they are.
I'm guessing City already have the support of at least 7 teams in order not to be voted out of PL by a resolution with at least 14 votes by other PL clubs. Otherwise, they won't make such a bold move against PL.
How they get the support of 7 teams is another matter altogether (Brown envelope?).
How they get the support of 7 teams is another matter altogether (Brown envelope?).
This should’ve been nipped in the book the day a state mentioned being interested in buying a PL club, but weak management allowed it to pass and infect the game.
Enough is enough now. These pricks aren’t satisfied with rigging the game - they’re now costing money that should be spent on football, by dragging the league through the courts to bluff and obfuscate their cheating.
Leave them have it and walk. Let any club that’s happy to be their puppet stay, and all the clubs that care about sport can rejoin the football league and all the other properly owned and run football clubs in England.
Enough is enough now. These pricks aren’t satisfied with rigging the game - they’re now costing money that should be spent on football, by dragging the league through the courts to bluff and obfuscate their cheating.
Leave them have it and walk. Let any club that’s happy to be their puppet stay, and all the clubs that care about sport can rejoin the football league and all the other properly owned and run football clubs in England.
Brass neck of them to think they can litigate out of this mess they have made
From the times article
"City blame the Premier League for not regulating spending when clubs such as Manchester United were more dominant, arguing they have been prevented from monetising their brand in the way United did. City also say the rules penalise clubs who have “lower-profile sporting histories”.
Lower-profile sporting histories!!
"City blame the Premier League for not regulating spending when clubs such as Manchester United were more dominant, arguing they have been prevented from monetising their brand in the way United did. City also say the rules penalise clubs who have “lower-profile sporting histories”.
Lower-profile sporting histories!!
Interesting that the Times reported it when City had Henry Winter drooling over their club in their treble documentary. He won't be on the Christmas b̶o̶n̶u̶s̶ card list this year.
Journalists have been shameless for years over the City issue
“We broke the rules, but the rules are bad. So let us off”
Terrible post.
From the times article
"City blame the Premier League for not regulating spending when clubs such as Manchester United were more dominant, arguing they have been prevented from monetising their brand in the way United did. City also say the rules penalise clubs who have “lower-profile sporting histories”.
Lower-profile sporting histories!!
The idea we always spent big is absurd. In fact, Fergie was frequently at odds with the PLC board over lack of spending.
Our first title came after signing Dublin and Cantona for the combined sum of about 2 million.
In 95, we sold three key players and won the double in 96.
After the treble, the only outfield players we signed between the summer of 99 and 01 were Silvestre and Fortune. Still won back to back titles.
After losing the league in 2010, we signed Bebe, Javier Hernandez and Chris Smalling. We won the league back and reached a Champions League final.
If more than half of the Premier League are backing the Premier League then there is really very little chance of this being successful and Im sure the hearing will feel that finding in favour of City pose's a significant threat to the future of the premier league and rules against it.
Yep, but not just the Premier League. I'm sure Europe's biggest teams aren't too happy at the prospect of a Champions League competing club having a new shirt sponsor worth $500 million a year, or whatever bullshit number City decide the number should be.
If the PL is forced to back down in the face of legal and economic might of the Abu Dhabi regime, we the fans need to make ourselves heard just like with the Super League. Don’t show to games against AbuDhabi 115. A few games with empty stadiums and the government will be forced to intervene
Good thing is the PL will be so pissed off with this that they'll come at them with full force once they're found guilty.
I don’t see why anyone would back City. Surely in the vast majority of clubs favour to get rid of them.
It's getting to the point where there probably should be a twin-pronged approach to dealing with City.
On one side you have the legal route vis-a-vis the Premier League and the 115 charges, and on the other clubs and fans should utilise that great form of protest that came out of Ireland in the 1880s - namely a boycott of the club.
On one side you have the legal route vis-a-vis the Premier League and the 115 charges, and on the other clubs and fans should utilise that great form of protest that came out of Ireland in the 1880s - namely a boycott of the club.
Has there ever been anything like this? Across football? Can’t quite believe what I’m reading.
That won’t happen. A better example would be the German resistance to a DFL proposal a few months ago. Fans kept throwing tennis balls on the field and annoyed the shit out of officials. They got everything they wanted in the end. Don’t boycott games. Sabotage them. Make sure that everybody understands that there won’t be any regular football being played until the issue is resolved.
But in order to pull this off, English fans would need to organise. And to me they appear like a completely unorganised mess, split into tribes that hate each other more than they love their sport.
Nah unprecedented I think.
It’s the equivalent of a boxer in the last rounds of a fight he’s losing, going for broke and throwing a wild haymaker. If it somehow lands, he might win by a knockout…
That’s unfortunately true about English/British people in general. The UK has nowhere near the revolutionary spirit as continental European countries like France do.
So they are innocent of all the accusations against them and have no case to answer. But also they are suing the PL for discrimination because they can't break the rules they agreed to abide by?
The bitters must be worried about the outcome of the 115 charges case.
The bitters must be worried about the outcome of the 115 charges case.
The state of that “club”
How on earth could we not be, when we've been utterly smashed by them in our own city?
Wonder if they're the ones supporting city ?
Hopefully so, but they'd only need to persuade six club owners that maintaining good relations with UAE can also be good for their other business ventures.
Going after the premier league in this aggressive manner is like an admission of guilt. It’s a typical response of one threatened.
They know they’ve fallen foul of the rules and their strategy to getting themselves off is to prove that the rules are unlawful in the first place. I’ve always said that City are guilty but being ran by a state means they are far too powerful to take on and thus they will get off with it.
They know they’ve fallen foul of the rules and their strategy to getting themselves off is to prove that the rules are unlawful in the first place. I’ve always said that City are guilty but being ran by a state means they are far too powerful to take on and thus they will get off with it.
Bingo
They're already posting numbers supposedly above all the traditional huge sides in world football.
How on earth do they think they can suggest they'd have been pushing their "brand" on even more than that?
How on earth do they think they can suggest they'd have been pushing their "brand" on even more than that?
I just don’t understand why we’re still entertaining them?
It’s like the Olympics being held to ransom by this new Druggy Olympics thing. They would never let that happen.
Kick them out and move on. If the legalities of kicking them out are too complex, the other 18/19 clubs leave the league and start again without them and with safeguards to prevent future thems.
It’s like the Olympics being held to ransom by this new Druggy Olympics thing. They would never let that happen.
Kick them out and move on. If the legalities of kicking them out are too complex, the other 18/19 clubs leave the league and start again without them and with safeguards to prevent future thems.
Their complaints are genuinely “we weren’t allowed to financially dope enough”
Mind blowing
The question is why the state of Abu Dhabi is so interested in football (City) and go against all odds making more enemies along the way to fight UEFA, PL when people accused them of using football for sport washing. Is this not counterproductive?
Or it there something bigger than sport washing?
Or it there something bigger than sport washing?