Why aren’t we hearing about the charges any more? A long time ago there was a sense in which it was all coming to a head. Guardiola was frequently asked about it, and he was visibly annoyed until he eventually started saying “They tell me it’s all clean, all good. If it isn’t, I will go …” or words to that effect.
Since then nothing. Apart from the small matter that Man City have built another team.
And the problem with building another team is two-fold. First, it is being done with over-inflated and illegitimate income streams. And second, it’s all being done off the back of the first blatant round of cheating, where a £1.5Billion injection changed their position to being a big player in the market.
My suspicion is Pep will go in the summer so he’s not tainted, but then the ‘punishment’ will be entirely unsatisfactory, if there even is a punishment. The new manager will then inherit a young, talented, expensive and large squad.
It’s happening right before our eyes and nothing is being done to stop it.
It’s a genuine national scandal that nobody wants to talk about, or rather the fear of lawsuits stops them.
I’m loathe to compare it to Hillsborough, the blood scandal or the Post Office scandal for obvious reasons but in terms of scale it is immense.
This is our national game and these fucking cheats have skewed it for the past 15 years. Millions of people invest time, money and emotion into following their teams and for what? To be cheated out of what is rightfully theirs by fucking vermin.
It’s clear there is a lot of negotiation going on behind closed doors and our government is involved which they have no right to be. The entire game has been corrupted by a fucking tin-pot club that won the lottery.
I have to laugh, City squad paying for the away tickets that were about £20…at a venue in the Arctic circle. That’s like paying for a round at the Bodo airport…
I get that it’s supposed to be a nice gesture but there is something pretty distasteful about it. This is the fucking Champions League. Treating an opponent as so bad that you have to do this humiliation ritual after losing to them is not right.
Indeed, and since we don’t see anything happening regarding the charges put on them (and will probably never see), we’ll have to conclude that the entire political and judiciary system is corrupt as well.
