There are rumours it's just going to be a fine.
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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Sounds plausible
That could ruin the club!
Rumours from where?
I can’t wait for how smug their fans are going to be 
Its in the Athletic
Nobody knows for sure right now, with a verdict expected to be reached in March, but City have always been confident and some with knowledge of the situation, speaking anonymously to protect relationships, think that the sanction City face will not be more serious than a fine. That remains to be seen but the club’s recent activity in terms of transfers and contract renewals would seem to reflect that feeling. City were not planning to spend much money this month, but the injury situation and their poor form changed all that.
Sounds like anon within city going on gut feel.
I hope it is a fine, because that sort of lacklustre punishment would prompt the rest of the PL to form a breakaway league with state sponsored teams banned.
Never happening
Why not?
They wouldn't want to risk their gravy train. Even if riddled with state sponsorship, the PL is still ludicrously lucrative for clubs
It would still be ludicrously lucrative without state sponsored teams. In fact it would be a much better and much more exciting product without state sponsored doping.
How do they justify giving Forest and Everton points deductions and City a fine?
The Athletic.
Cheers, worrying then, I think they tend to source anything they publish so it wouldn't be entirely baseless.
Although not really worrying in that most of us are resigned to them getting away with it, I guess.
If that’s the case the credibility of the rules will be thrown out the window. Other big clubs will just do what they want
This will all be swept under the rug and TV pundits will barely acknowledge they cheated.
We'll get Ian Wright being so happy they've been found innocent
We'll get Ian Wright being so happy they've been found innocent
Other clubs won't get away with it like this. It's only City.
If they just get a fine, cue every other club just deciding 'feck it' and doing what they want. Madness that Forest and Everton have been sanctioned like they have but City could just be fined.
There would be consequences. City are not bigger than the other 19 clubs combined.
Why would Wright be happy? Has he been vocal about this?
True. Money being the punishment for this is like fining Willy Wonka with chocolate.
I’ll be sad and upset if all these cnuts get as a punishment is a fan. That’s a slap on the wrist. It’s like giving multi billion dollar mega corps a million dollar fine; it’s a drop in the ocean.
Would be the death of the league and in 10 years they will reap what they sow.
Once competitive integrity is gone there’s only one way then and that’s downhill.
Once competitive integrity is gone there’s only one way then and that’s downhill.
A fine does not make sense at all. I expect them to get a points deduction for the “failure to comply/cooperate” charges at the bare minimum.
Getting stripped of their titles and relegated seems unlikely now if those rumours are true.
I see a lot of City aggregator accounts tweeting they suspect it will be a fine and citing the Athletic but don't actually see anything on the Athletic.
Probably a throwaway line in an article and they are all latching onto it like it's a headline.
A fine would spell the end of the PL really. If you end up just asking for money from a bottomless pit as form of punishment, it’s dead. It’s all pointless.
More than likely nonsense looking at the Twitter accounts.
It has been mentioned in an Athletic article as a City contact familiar with the situations expects it to be a fine
Also, the Tweets are saying 115 charges... I thought the Athletic recently reported it was 120 charges. I don't believe those tweets.
Can you share the article?
If the PL were smart, it will be a massive fine plus a decent point deduction (something like 15-20 points) for this season - City aren't going to win the league anyway, so effectively something which takes them out of the champions league for one season may be deemed as 'fair'.
It’s decided by an independent panel, not the PL
I suppose that's something City would be very happy with as well, which would see them nicely set up for next season.
The article doesn't say anything though:
"Nobody knows for sure right now, with a verdict expected to be reached in March, but City have always been confident and some with knowledge of the situation, speaking anonymously to protect relationships, think that the sanction City face will not be more serious than a fine."
Someone with knowledge could be that Stefan guy who defends them no matter what as he worked there - could be a friendly journo or a bloke who works as a steward at the Etihad.
This is all I read @KiD MoYeS
No chance. The rest of the PL teams don't have the balls to do it, to put it plainly. Will sit and silently watch some teams taking advantage.