For the 115 charges, the flagrant refusal to co-operate with the authorities and now a direct legal assault on the PL's authority, they should be thrown out and given a lifetime ban from participating in the top flight of English football.
City and Financial Doping | Charged by PL with numerous FFP breaches | Hearing begins 16th September 2024
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'The tyranny of the majority'
Says it all about your beloved owners.
Phrases like 'tyranny' are important to the fanbase, who are fed a ridiculous persecution complex. 'They all have it in for us!'
Pathetic.
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I can see how this will end.
You drop your case, we will drop ours.
Happy days.
You drop your case, we will drop ours.
Happy days.
You’ll sell your soul for few plastic titles.
Very nice from you to support people who practices slavery in their country.
The lawyer has to be trolling here.
The thing about FFP rules is that they are anti-competitive by design. They restrict the ability of companies to compete with each other through investment. That’s the whole point.
The question is should sport be a special case where the governing bodies are allowed to impose anti-competitive rules to protect the integrity of the game. Up to the courts, I guess.
The question is should sport be a special case where the governing bodies are allowed to impose anti-competitive rules to protect the integrity of the game. Up to the courts, I guess.
They'll get off with it
A nominal (in their case) fine and a few new PSR rules to placate the other billionaire clubs, like ours. You think Brexit Jim cares? The new money will help ease Southgate (or whoever) in.
We should move on with our own problems, anyway, we aren't squeaky clean in our own right. Not blatant cheats like city, but still dodge diddly odge.
A nominal (in their case) fine and a few new PSR rules to placate the other billionaire clubs, like ours. You think Brexit Jim cares? The new money will help ease Southgate (or whoever) in.
We should move on with our own problems, anyway, we aren't squeaky clean in our own right. Not blatant cheats like city, but still dodge diddly odge.
They’re such rats. PL need to be strong on this.
If I had to guess I would say Newcastle
I'm gonna need a full map with directions to join you where you just ended up.
Ooohhh, Middle East friends.
PL cannot back down on this else they'll become a laughing stock.
Shitty are just using their financial clout to bully the opposition into submission. Their backers will throw every corrupt penny at this until it goes away or they lose - and even then, they'll just appeal and throw more money at it. I can't imagine the big 6 supporting them.
Shitty are just using their financial clout to bully the opposition into submission. Their backers will throw every corrupt penny at this until it goes away or they lose - and even then, they'll just appeal and throw more money at it. I can't imagine the big 6 supporting them.
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.
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…