There is none. You essentially have to decide whether your think nothing serious will happen because UAE are too powerful and the UK Govt will help them, or that they're in serious trouble as the PL wouldn't have ever gone after them in the first place because they had a really easy out after the UEFA case against City.
City and Financial Doping | Charged by PL with 130 FFP breaches | Hearing begins 16th Sep 2024 | Concluded 9th Dec 2024 - Awaiting outcome
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I wish i’m wrong. The PL has been a complete shit show for the past 20 years. Happy to allow a russian oligarch to take over Chelsea and launch an insane spending spree, happy to approve a takeover of Manchester United that put the entire clubs future at risk due to the leveraged buy out, happy to allow Thaksin to take over Manchester City, happy to allow the Qatari take over at Manchester City, happy to allow the Saudis to take over Newcastle. They’ve completely failed to implement a strict set of rules to prevent the league from turning into a farce where the clubs revenue can be pumped up to extreme levels. Their loopholes saw Leicester escape punishment simply because they on paper were no longer a part of the Premier League. The PL has pretty much failed at every turning point and is in desperate need of a hard reset.
Money is a helluva drug
Based on recent events does it look like the PL are afraid of upsetting City?
This seems… desperate…
The actions of a supremely calm team with nothing to worry about.
Imagine if the traditional clubs just up and left the PL and formed a new league with a host of EFL clubs following suit and forming a "breakaway pyramid" leaving City, Chelsea etc holding their tiny, flaccid cocks, pissing in the wind.
What a glorious day that would be.
What a glorious day that would be.
There's already claims coming out of City from 1 of their ITK's that Arsenal are lobbying Arsenal supporting Prime Minister Keir Starmer when he's at Arsenal games to get involved somehow, so even if it's not true they are already planting the seed out there that it the government gets involved it would do so from a position of bias. Quite clever indeed either way.
I have consistently said from the outset that City would get done as the PL didn't need to bring this action. I only provided the other option as the majority of people thought this initially and a large amount of people suspect they will still get away with it without any action.
To be clear, I believe the PL will relegate them. What the EFL does with them is another matter.
Agree.
Didn't Everton back City in the most recent case?
That wasnt their new owners though was it?
"So, listen to us, there's new rules, but please don't talk to the governing body about them, because erm yeah we know better than them. Also don't worry about that smoking gun in the corner, Micah will put it away as soon as he's finished laughing. Give him a couple of hours."
From what I understand is the City ruling went against them really but they jumped quick to win the PR battle to drive a narrative. The Times and Mail took their City contacts PR version and then looked stupid when the official results showed it wasn't what City were portraying
Seems City's approach is very much 'do it and then ask for forgiveness' except they will do it and tell everyone to feck off
Seems City's approach is very much 'do it and then ask for forgiveness' except they will do it and tell everyone to feck off
It's absolutely bizarre that city would e-mail the 19 clubs saying the PL rules are bogus. The 19 clubs are the PL, it's a joint organisation, each club is a shareholder, including City. Absolutely nuts.
Very good post.
My monies on that too (has been from the start). I’m not sure I’m bothered about a potential breakaway even if it attracted more sponsors/money. If it only had 3-4 UK clubs, Spanish and Italians (plus randoms), go for it… still think UK game remains (would need a period of right sizing but think PL would do all it could to help) as it always has and gets money.
How many teams would agree to break away and join a new league though? We know there are 4 or 5 teams that are siding with City and might be reluctant to go against them.
I guess if 14 broke away and you got Celtic and Rangers onboard could have a decent 16 team league.
God I hope it all comes crumbling down. Absolute feckers. The corruption is clear as day. All you gotta do is read that stadium name.
Nothing City are doing screams confidence. All they're doing is PR Spin to make even Tony Blair blush and bully boy tactics in threatening to sue everyone into oblivion. Neither screams confidence.
Unless it's a closed league with no relegation, Celtic and especially Rangers will get relegated. Big clubs with big followings no doubt, but the standard that they play at is quite poor
"Huge new Etihad deal" reads as City knowing it will be nothing close to FMV and them wanting to know how much they can take the piss.
Maybe not that extreme, but it's definitely going that way if they don't get a significant punishment.
Although Chelsea v Man City in their own league battling to be the biggest menace club would be funny.
And they can't surely be dim enough to realise most of the clubs despise what they have done to the game, and actively gave evidence AGAINST them just recently!
£10000 billion to sponsor the players hair.
Arteta jumps ship at Arsenal and moves back to City
They are living in an alternative reality it seems.
He'd move tomorrow. Arsenal fans like to pretend he wouldn't but it's clear he would.
I can't wait for them to get found guilty, purely so all of the glory hunting, cocky little bellend kids get found out. There is no way any of them (unless their parents did) actually would've gone anywhere near City had they been shite.
Fairly annoying that the verdict hasn't been published so that anyone can read it.
Strange vendetta against just….children being children?
good onePersonally, I was in the "the feckers are gonna get away with it" camp.
Now some hope has emerged in me, that they might get done somehow.
Cheating cnuts...
Allegedly.
Allegedly.
What a mess