padr81
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The entire post glossed over Chelsea. Who destroyed this league back in the day, and since they started spending money we stopped winning. They spent 250 to 300 million back in mid 2000s.....that money is insane NOW. Never mind back then. In the same windows Arsenal spent 40, United 60. Its just that, no offense, most United fans back in the day had blinkers on just because you were still winning owing to Fergie's brilliance and seeing Arsenal stumbling about was easier than tolerating Chelsea's cheating. And I am hitting 40, I still remember how United fans would laugh at any Arsenal fan complaining about Chelsea back then. There is zero chance Chelsea would have won any title, never mind a CL, had they not cheated their way to it.
City are what Chelsea were, except more efficient. And City followed and then fine tuned their cheating in ways Chelsea didn't think of. If a monster like Pep existed back then, Chelsea would have got him and dominated it like City have.
This is untrue and I'm a City fan. There was no rule preventing Chelsea doing what they did and while FFP is for the most part a crock of shit, City signed up to it. We could have if we didn't believe in it have fought it and probably won back in 2014, what annoys me is City cut a deal with UEFA and made the rod for our own back. We were happy to use FFP to stop others coming up and after our own (probably) illegitimate rise. That's speaking on FFP and PSR alone and stinks of hypocrisy.
Then theres the fact Chelsea never lied about their income and its very much looking like according to the PL City did.
The fact is and what irks me as a City fan is we should have either fought it or got in line, if these charges are proven, we did neither, we were happy to be both part of the big teams/clubs and still breaking rules we championed to get there. It stinks to high heaven and if we are guilty as is likely (very likely) we should be punished as such.
In terms of football I agree City and Chelsea before us had the same effect on the shape of the league but Chelsea did it within the rules and it looks very much like we didn't.