Manchester City* - 130 charges (and counting...) (Part 2)

I did wonder about that post, he was my favourite player and probably still is bar Dom (and there are other reasons for that) in the last 25 years.

Pep more or loss confirmed he’s staying next season.

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Yeah. I feel Alonso is too classy for that lot.

He’s definitely not.

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Ok I don’t know him but I’m not setting the bar very high here.

"Rodri’s fine comes after he claimed: ā€œI know we won too much and people don’t want us to win, but the referee has to be neutral.ā€

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That sounds like he is suggesting they weren’t when they were winning but he expects it now.

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they really have this ā€˜poor citeh’ mentality drilled into them dont they…

cheats complaining about being cheated…

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Someone needs to show him some of the favourable decisions City received over the years and ask him for his comments.

I’m completely out of the loop, but what did he do to give that impression.

https://www.thisisanfield.com/2026/03/pep-lijnders-man-city-manager-liverpool-fa-cup-2026/?fbclid=IwRlRTSAQc_0xleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeHGUAJ9s6rCRJelzd26JGSDj5qCNQaTgl6ne3YB0vYGgK5SqMdLdf3Y7kc7I_aem_5DvaKda9F-fdPd4RSfCSCg

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What’s happening with Phil Foden these days? Not playing a lot and has one year left on his contract. Has more talent than most of their attacking players and I doubt it’s form. Feels like a typical Pep thing.

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Pep is on a quota of one decent youth player

Quota on dickheads and quota on crimes-against-the-sartorial. Unfortunately for Foden he ticks both

Not sure what’s going on, but a few people today are talking about a 60 point deduction.

That would mean relegation.

If deferred until next season, so a whole season is played out knowing the sanction, they would have to do a centurion season to maybe avoid relegation.

Does anyone know anything about this? Is it a nothing burger, filling the emptiness of a ridiculous international break?

Or is there something to it?

Seriously not enough as far as I’m concerned. They need to be dissolved and sent to the bottom of the pyramid.

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Effectively the PL can’t, all it can do is punish it as far as their league goes.

So title strips or points deduction. I assume they could enforce relegation.

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For a decade and a half of success, relegation for one year is a slap on the wrist. They would happily take another relegation in 20 years if it meant they could do whatever they wanted until then.

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I heard someone comment that stripping titles would be problematic for revenue and sponsorship. Would all the tv companies be willing to continue throwing money at the P/L for tv rights if the competition isn’t clean and legit?

What about the sponsors, would they continue paying huge money into a league that has seen x league titles in the last 10-15 years stripped?

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