City and Financial Doping | Charged by PL with numerous FFP breaches | Hearing begins 16th September 2024
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5 points deduction, slap on the wrist, promise to try to do better and they will move on
Ban them, destroy the stadium and send Aguero to jail please
Can the various PL teams combine together to use their legal/financial resources? Do city need to be convicted first before the clubs could try a class action suit?
Yes but as we’ve said City seem to have wanted to cheat regardless. I think it would work though, or at least deter more cheating, and also be quite interesting for fans if this happened.
I appreciate that. I’m just not sure why they would want to?
What is the incentive for a typical owner to destroy the market in the manner City or PSG have done?
Most regular businesses, even billion dollar ones, are accountable to their shareholders. They still exist to make a profit and want to see value for their investments.
With Blackburn and Chelsea, we saw wealthy owners pump large amounts of money in to gain success - but neither broke the market to the extent it is broken now. Both had limits to their wealth.
Oil states have close to unlimited wealth, coupled with their own infrastructure through which to spend it unsupervised.
Is this pretty much akin to Lance Armstrong suing the UCI for their prohibitive rules on PEDs?
I'll give you a bonus point if you can spot the connection to those clubs.. apart from Everton, those fools are just pissed at the league.
How would it work?
But the answer to “how do we stop City cheating?”, can’t be “bring in another rule that makes it tougher than everyone else but makes zero difference to City”. Surely you can see that?
The fact there will always be a way around it is precisely the reason so many of us were adamant states shouldn’t be allowed to own clubs in the first place.
They let them in - it’s been proven that we were right and they cheated. Now it’s time to kick them out and if that can’t be done legally, it’s time to disband the league and start again without them.
I've just read that Newcastle won't join either side, so will just remain neutral.
I'd just assumed the other club was Chelsea.
Cool. I’m laughing about City.
Rumbled!You seem like a clown to me
Yeah so that source is a guy with 240 followers. I'll believe it when I see it - Newcastle are the only team that have voted with City on a regular basis.
If anything Chelsea should be more incentivised to get nation-state ownership out compared to most given the limitations of private equity wealth in comparison.
EDIT: welp guess I believe it. Disgraceful as per usual from our ownership
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Does Big Todd have some kind of Middle Eastern connection?
Also seems kinda dumb for Everton to be backing this
That was informative from Lawton, just a shame that Joe is a terrible, terrible interviewer. He rambles and stumbles too much to get his questions out.
Have your questions ready, short and to the point.
So its the premier league clubs paying/contribute the legal fees, including City? What a mess. Couldnt City could drag it on endlessly until it affects clubs?
Being reported by the mail online its Villa, Newcastle and Chelsea, not Everton.
Villa really are villains
Isn't Moshiri linked to Russia?
Chelsea and Newcastle backing City isn't surprising.
All clubs contribute 5%, including City, to the Prem’s legal fees.
I think it’s City’s plan to be litigious as feck. There’s no limit on what they can spend on lawyers (as far as I’m aware) and their owners are literally the UAE state, so they can do this continuously theoretically.
Do Villa have rich owners the ?
Newcastle are backing City? Well feck, that's a surprise.
Can these fecking shady state owned scum clubs be kicked out the league already
Can these fecking shady state owned scum clubs be kicked out the league already
Nassef Sawiris is a multi billionaire. Egyptian?
The thing is if they all think “this is my chance to throw loads of cash in” and 5, 6, 8 do, they could spend loads and come 8th?
Why did the doctor quit at Bayernb while he was there?
I don't expect much from Chelsea and Newcastle fans, but hopefully Villa fans let it be known that they are digusted to be associated with this.
Ronay with passionate but pessimistic take in the G. Dunno. I see desperation in this move by City, a failure to take the temperature of the West, even compromised, even outgunned with lawyers and money. The timing is not ideal for City. New government soon. Big US money for Prem, great incentive to preserve competition. I think the cheats will kick and scream. But I predict they crash and burn.
UAE have invested a lot in this country and have very good relations with the govt and football in this country is controlled by the govt. It is the govt that rejected the super league, they also forced Abrahamovic to sell ,so even if city are found guilty nothing serious will happen to them. I even doubt they'll get a point deduction or a transfer ban.
If this govt has not stopped sending weapons to israel after what they are doing in Gaza, you think they will jeopardise relations with UAE because of 'football '?
If this govt has not stopped sending weapons to israel after what they are doing in Gaza, you think they will jeopardise relations with UAE because of 'football '?
I think Villa and Fulham both have form for voting with City. I thought Newcastle and City usually abstained where the other was involved, but I could be wrong.
Lots of conflicting reports. Now reading Newcastle are reluctant to support City in this? Without Newcastle they are fecked.
You could say that yes.
The Saudi PIF have billions worth of assets managed by Clearlake. Which is owned by Boehly.
To be fair, the govt intervened on the Super League due to the enormous pushback from fans. The SL was seen as pure anti-competition and club greed. The reaction wouldn’t be the same now.
It's a clever time for them to launch this, with the season over. Protests and fan voices of discontent are barely registerable.
Because Pep blamed him for a 3-1 defeat in a Champions League game.