I’m not even from England, yet I despise City. Granted, that’s because I’m only 25 and have only been following football since 2010.
City and Financial Doping | Charged by PL with numerous FFP breaches | Hearing begins 16th September 2024
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Yep and if City had just had one their most obvious charges dealt with this season and then had a few point taken away like Forest and Everton, then Arsenal would have won the title, and the 4 leagues in row would never have happened. It could have been the first part of the impending punishment that would have meant something.
This has been dealt with terribly, and average fan has every right to feel cheated by the PL.
We're all assuming they'll get found guilty on at least some of the 115 charges.
Imagine the madness if they get cleared.
But then if they do get charged, if it's a mere fine/suspension from a few transfer windows or a couple of points dedudction, there has to be a boycott from the clubs or fans. It's the only way,
Refusing to go to any game your club plays against Man City as he absolute start.
It does seem very off to not deduct points in a season Everton is
I despise the idea of City, PSG, Newcastle if the become anoher one of those, Man United being owned by Qatar if that was to happen...
the fact that I'm trying hard to hate them but don't really manage to, probably shows how alienated I feel towards football.
"Game has gone" and all that shite... well yeah. feels like it.
Probably felt like that for a couple of decades for football fans down the leagues, mind.
If course they are, they cheated at unprecedented levels to get to that level.
At least Chelsea were a big(ish) club before Abramovic.
City weren't even in the top division most of the time when I was a kid.
Sorry mate, City won't be stripped down any trophies. Everton's charges have nothing to do with City's charges. City charges are from Mancini era focusing on what may or may not have happened regarding City's reporting. Not like City went bankrupt and hid it. FFP is there to make sure clubs don't go red as a result of irresponsible spending. City's owners have invested in their club just like how Abramovich in the past and how Todd Boehly now is investing in Chelsea without putting the club in a financial risk.
And in the past 6-7 years, Arsenal and Liverpool have spent close to City in terms of netspend while United and Chelsea spent more in terms of netspend. City are just a well-run club both from a business administration and sporting management point of view.
Spot on. I receive daily attempted banter from City supporting fans/friends, but it just falls on deaf ears. They're not a proper club, everything about them is just so m'eh, fake and boring. They may aswell be renamed Mansour FC, the clubs his play thing and the fans are his sugar babies.
Wheeled our the big guns, it's Paul Dickov
I don't know how you can bring 115 charges, and then prove none of them, it would be farcical by the PL.
It has to all or nothing when the punishment comes aswell, if they prove them guilty, and then do what you wrote then the PL is sunk imo.
And if they somehow don't prove anything and City get off because they didn't comply or have better lawyers, etc, then the same applies.
The lesson here is cheat to such an extent that it takes years to sort out, then refuse to cooperate with any investigation.
Okay, have fun watching City break every record United have then, you do you.
The way we've been run the last decade you wonder how many billions we'd have needed to spend to do what they're doing.
Did they win the league again? I'll remember to passionately shrug once I finish this sandwich.
even if they got a slap on the wrist punishment of 4 points deducted, it would have just cost them the title. It is simply INSANE that this is still ongoing and nobody is really stepping up to address just how absurd it is. so what, if they do get a points deduction, simply timing means theyre allowed to keep 4 in a row? The integrity and credibility of the sport and this whole process is at zero.
I'm not even mad. When Liverpool won I was seething. Every time Chelsea and Arsenal pipped us to the title I was upset. With City I just feel.....meh. They're so artificial that nothing they do even registers with me.
Depressing that they’ve beaten or equalled things that set us apart from others. I know it’s cheating but clearly until something (unlikely) happens everyone carries on as normal preaching they’re the greatest.
Agreed with other posters who have questioned why teams/managers haven’t called it out. There’s obviously a gagging order floating about but it’s mental we’ve seen deductions for teams yet there’s no end in sight here.
Pep saying he’s staying on suggests they’re confident feck all will happen too. That was fairly obvious, but we all dared to dream they’d meet their maker.
Agreed with other posters who have questioned why teams/managers haven’t called it out. There’s obviously a gagging order floating about but it’s mental we’ve seen deductions for teams yet there’s no end in sight here.
Pep saying he’s staying on suggests they’re confident feck all will happen too. That was fairly obvious, but we all dared to dream they’d meet their maker.
Abu Dhabi own English football now. Good for them I guess.
Amazed that the PL allowed it to happen, but I suppose that at the time the most important thing for them was to stop our dominance.
Amazed that the PL allowed it to happen, but I suppose that at the time the most important thing for them was to stop our dominance.
The trick is to also throw lots of money at people to run the club
2012 Utd 89
2024 Arsenal 89
2022 Liverpool 92
2019 Liverpool 97
The 4 highest point totals by runner ups in PL history, all finished 2nd to City.
2024 Arsenal 89
2022 Liverpool 92
2019 Liverpool 97
The 4 highest point totals by runner ups in PL history, all finished 2nd to City.
And the crowd go mild.
Reminds me of the banks, too big to fail, so are propped up
We really fumbled the bag with Pep.
Why? The man's a cheater. Nandrolone cnut.
Their 4peat is quite impressive. Almost on par with Lance Armstrong’s Tour de France winning run in the early 00s.
Lance Armstrong trending on twitter 
He is but at least we would've won a few more trophies.
Hurray, free salt.
Pep is a cheater who's gone for low hanging fruit since Barca. The path of least resistance. That's the type of person and manager that he is. Which is why he was never going to accept the United job.
It’s all just so boring isn’t it
If "115" is all we have to go on everytime we need to say something bad about City because they keep winning trophy after trophy, that's just sad.
I wish City would just quote net spend #s just to shut those same United fans up.
I wish City would just quote net spend #s just to shut those same United fans up.
At the rate they're going, they will overtake us and Liverpool eventually.
I assume the people who don't care now and root for them over proper clubs won't care then either because, by the time it comes to that, their interest in football will be close to non-existent.
It’s the equivalent of spending a fortune on a high class prostitute and believing them when they tell you how great you are in bed
Oh, no one won the league again.
You're a great poster and I like you on a personal level. You're one of the most respected oppo supporters here. But having said that; *removed by admin* and stuff the leftovers up your *also removed by admin* cnut.
I mean realistically they're going to win the league again next season. Arsenal are there closest challengers and they're a good imitation of City but they lack or are similar in almost every department in comparison, except for Saka where Arsenal are better.
If they get a clinical striker in they might have a chance, but failing that it's 95% likely to be City again next season.
If they get a clinical striker in they might have a chance, but failing that it's 95% likely to be City again next season.
These are Pep's achievements not City's. Feck the lottery winning council estate dwelling Stockport wankers.
Does anyone actually know what City's real net spend is though?
Was a joke mate, apologies if it caused offence.