City and Financial Doping | Charged by PL with 130 FFP breaches | Hearing begins 16th Sep 2024 | Concluded 9th Dec 2024 - Awaiting outcome

[Rooney in Paris]

The jury verdict was leaked in Norway:

Spoiler

Red card for Casemiro

+ 3 match ban for Patrice

 

[Wing Attack Plan R]

Why is his coat pocket bulging like that then?

He's really happy to see him.

 

[Squeaky_Bum_Time]

Hard to see anything significant happening. The reality is the average fan seems to be completely okay with a foreign state owning them (see City, Newcastle whose fans now are chainsaw enthusiasts, the hard-ons many on here had for Qatar) and injecting money from outside football into it.

But it is also wider than that, the players seem to be fine with it too, FIFA seems to be loving it (stay tuned for the women’s World Cup in Saudi), La Liga playing the super cup in Riyadh, etc. Other sports are at it too (e.g WTA)

This is focusing on football, but there is even a wider ongoing sale of businesses, properties, and assets in Europe to the highest bidder worldwide (which mostly ends up being one of the gulf countries or some American PE firm).

Short term gains are the name of the game; the hell with the wider picture or the long term repercussions of all your institutions and assets being foreign owned.

 

[Moriarty]

Hard to see anything significant happening. The reality is the average fan seems to be completely okay with a foreign state owning them (see City, Newcastle whose fans now are chainsaw enthusiasts, the hard-ons many on here had for Qatar) and injecting money from outside football into it.

But it is also wider than that, the players seem to be fine with it too, FIFA seems to be loving it (stay tuned for the women’s World Cup in Saudi), La Liga playing the super cup in Riyadh, etc. Other sports are at it too (e.g WTA)

This is focusing on football, but there is even a wider ongoing sale of businesses, properties, and assets in Europe to the highest bidder worldwide (which mostly ends up being one of the gulf countries or some American PE firm).

Short term gains are the name of the game; the hell with the wider picture or the long term repercussions of all your institutions and assets being foreign owned.

Bravo! Well said.

 

[Catt]

Maybe you can just share what he's saying?

Whats he said?

That it'll be a financial punishment, and that's it.

I'm guessing he's heard it from commenting PL matches.

 

[DarkLord1984]

I still fail to see how it will be just a financial punishment when other teams are being docked points for far lesser offences. Also what's the point in a financial punishment anyway? It'll be pocket change to those bastards.

 

[Solius]

Just a casual £200m spent by them in Jan. Alright for some.

 

[tomaldinho1]

I still fail to see how it will be just a financial punishment when other teams are being docked points for far lesser offences. Also what's the point in a financial punishment anyway? It'll be pocket change to those bastards.

Their plan from day 1 was to delay and simply not cooperate, given where all the sponsor funds originate the PL can't really go and get any proof of it. I think their plan is literally to stonewall and essentially say they can't find or can't provide for political reasons as much as possible to the point nothing can be definitively proven. So they get a shit load of fines, which would cripple a normal club, but their sponsors just eat it.