City and Financial Doping | Charged by PL with numerous FFP breaches | Hearing begins 16th September 2024

Maybe this may get the PL and associated broadcasters to stop gushing over 115 Charges FC

PL is dead, football is dead if they win this. May as well give up completely

This and the 115 Charges should leave them dead and buried, but unfortunately I can't see it happening

Sure as hell hope we aren't one of the pro 115 Charges FC. We have lost leagues because of it, likewise Arsenal and Liverpool. A guess would be Newcastle (similar ownership, and if these get off, it gives them the green light to do the same) or one of the small clubs where money is tight but a brown envelope has been promised/been slipped into the post...
 
It's all a PR exercise. Shift the debate from 'did City break the rules it signed up to' to 'are the rules wrong'.

Nothing gets by the fact that you can argue all you want about the merits of having, say, alcohol limits when driving. But you don't get to get caught wasted at the wheel and keep your license. The law when you break it is the law.
 
Pexbo said:
I have little doubt that “fan” accounts like this are just paid for PR fodder to add noise to the argument.
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Mate you should see how quickly any City positive comments on articles get 100-1 upvotes, laughable.
 
Zen86 said:
Good. I’m glad City have taken the nuclear option. More media and more attention. The worst case scenario was this gets swept under the rug.
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Good point, and it makes you think they must know they are going to get clobbered on the 115 charges, or they'd just keep quiet like they have done since the charges were brought.

It all looks like it's coming to head now.
 
They will try every trick in the book to delay the process and will go down kicking and screaming. What a pathetic classless club.
 
lysglimt said:
This made me want to kick them 2 divisions further down
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Why should the lower leagues get punished by having to take this shower of shite into the fold? They should be kicked out of the English football pyramid completely. Feck off to Abu Dhabi and play there, they can have as many sponsorships as they want.
 
lysglimt said:
This made me want to kick them 2 divisions further down
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The lower reaches of hell is where they belong. Detached from the host, they are a skeleton of the noisy neighbour, their bones picked dry by the Abu Dhabi parasite
 
Reading some of the City supporters’ comments on their subreddit is amusing. Some seem to be proud of the all guns blazing approach and believe they are victims.

Others just wish that they didn’t have to deal with this and just watch their great city side- completely ignoring the reason why they are so great.
 
Just kick them out of the league. Their lack of cooperation and litigious bullshit is enough reason, you dont even need to go into their industrial scale cheating.
 
C'est Moi Cantona said:
Good point, and it makes you think they must know they are going to get clobbered on the 115 charges, or they'd just keep quiet like they have done since the charges were brought.

It all looks like it's coming to head now.
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Let’s just hope the PL have a backbone
 
“City are also arguing the league’s democratic system of requiring at least 14 clubs, or two-thirds of those who vote, to implement rule changes should be abolished to guard against decisions being made by 'the tyranny of the majority'."

How ironic to argue against tyranny of any kind but especially against the pesky majority :lol:
 
This will last for years and years. All part of the plan. Meanwhile in that time they can carry on doing what they're doing and winning trophies.
 
Surely there can't be a single sane person left who believes city are anything but a sportswashing, pr exercise for the middle East by now. Like just how many times can you bury your head in the sand or twist yourself in knots justifying just how abnormal this club is.

This should never ever have been allowed to happen and all the useful idiots like the ones on here for years have played their small part in upholding it.

They simply ruined English football at top level and are intent on burning it down with themselves
 
RedRocket9908 said:
As expected some Newcastle fans are siding with City

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Yeah thats not remotely surprising to be honest. It's fine though, they can feck off with City too and form their own state league, if the PL is too corrupt and cartel like for them.
 
The absolute brass neck to claim they’re the oppressed victims in all this. No punishment will be enough for those scumbags. I want to see them utterly destroyed. They shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the Premier League for a generation.
 
Carl said:
This will last for years and years. All part of the plan. Meanwhile in that time they can carry on doing what they're doing and winning trophies.
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Hopefully whilst that's happening the fans from other clubs continually protest at matches, and the press have no choice but to ask about the charges to whoever is their manager after Pep realises he's wasted his time at them.
 
if the PL is so bad, they can just do us all a favour and feck off.

That's what probably hurts their little egos the most: nobody cares about them and nobody would miss them one bit if they weren't in the PL anymore. Small-time club.
 
el diablorojo said:
“City are also arguing the league’s democratic system of requiring at least 14 clubs, or two-thirds of those who vote, to implement rule changes should be abolished to guard against decisions being made by 'the tyranny of the majority'."

How ironic to argue against tyranny of any kind but especially against the pesky majority :lol:
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The tyranny of democracy?

:confused:
 
Carl said:
This will last for years and years. All part of the plan. Meanwhile in that time they can carry on doing what they're doing and winning trophies.
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Not if there's monumental pressure coming from the majority of clubs in the league, aside from Newcastle. I can see this really blowing up now if PL don't act
 
Shark said:
Not if there's monumental pressure coming from the majority of clubs in the league, aside from Newcastle. I can see this really blowing up now if PL don't act
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It won't be anything the PL can stop though. The legal processes for all of this will last literally years and years. Then even if/when there is eventually any verdict there will be appeal after appeal. Honestly, I don't actually see a proper resolution to this for probably a decade.
 
If they win then the European Super League is back on the menu and would probably be the lesser of two evils.

If you're going to monopolise success and make it meaningless, might as well chuck all the big teams into the same pot and just let them get on with it.
 
Threatening to cut funding to their community projects and increase ticket prices in protest is absolutely grim.

All those city fans that refused to question anything their owners did are in for a treat.
 
SER19 said:
Surely there can't be a single sane person left who believes city are anything but a sportswashing, pr exercise for the middle East by now. Like just how many times can you bury your head in the sand or twist yourself in knots justifying just how abnormal this club is.

This should never ever have been allowed to happen and all the useful idiots like the ones on here for years have played their small part in upholding it.

They simply ruined English football at top level and are intent on burning it down with themselves
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As far as sportwashing attempts go it's an impressively bad one. First they buy a club with some of the smarmiest twats in the world supporting them, then they cheat, then they bully the authorities when they can't just simply waltz into a foreign league and dictate terms.

If the only option other than letting City get away with it is to completely torch the league then so be it. We saw what happened when they won the treble; nobody really gave a shit. Hell, their dozens and dozens of fans worldwide didn't care much either. Imagine that every year, on and on, with their only real competitor being Newcastle. Folk thought football was boring when we were hoovering up trophies, or when Liverpool were top? Well grab a pillow and some hot chocolate because you ain't seen nothing yet.

Something needs to give before yet more clubs join the "City Group" and, before you know it, the Champions League will just be filled with nothing but clubs using that same shite badge template.
 
Honestly, I'd boot them just for the 'tyranny of the majority' line. Every smaller club has to see that as a threat.
 
ShinjiNinja26 said:
Why should the lower leagues get punished by having to take this shower of shite into the fold? They should be kicked out of the English football pyramid completely. Feck off to Abu Dhabi and play there, they can have as many sponsorships as they want.
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And then let the real City fans form their own phoenix club a la AFC Wimbledon and work their way back up the pyramid. I imagine they’ll hit their peak at League One/Two in a decade or so.
 
Interesting the article said the date is Nov for the 115 charges?

I’d take this as a good sign to be honest. There’s no way they can defend the valuations (especially early on when they did the £400m sponsor deal which made them supposedly more valuable than almost every club) so they are going to try and get that law scrapped. Although, surely even if it is scrapped they still signed up and broke the rule at the time?
 
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