What have Man City been doing since 2018? The charges only apply to the nine years leading up to then. Since 2018 has everything been hunky-dory? Cooperation? Open books? No issues at all?
Even if all that is true, and of course it isnât, the financial cheating didnât just affect the years in which it happened. It affects every year since.
It wonât do to claim that they are operating a sustainable organization today, if it is only happening on the back of all the illegal money they injected into the club to get it there.
Their punishment needs to hurt them for multiple years, as that has been the span of the cheating. Relegation. Then demotion to the bottom of the football league pile. Large fines to be paid to everyone who was cheated out of their legitimate earnings too, having come runner up to Man City across numerous competitions. And as a condition of entering competition moving forwards, their books need to be open to forensic accountants for scrutiny, since thereâs no trust there, at all.
I expect to be disappointed, but the jeopardy for the league is that if they donât punish Man City harshly enough, it could lead to a split as the majority of clubs who are legitimate wonât stand for it. Unfortunately Man City wonât be isolated on their own though, as several other clubs have aspirations to overspend.
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I kinda feel the same way. If these cunts arenât punished properly then fuck it we might as well just hand the game over to the Arabs and relocate the Premier League there and they can all own three or four clubs each.
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I enjoy watching our games anyway, knowing that we donât cheat (that Iâm aware of).
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I believe City have refused to share info on their accounts since then. Some of the charges relate to that i think
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So absolutely nothing to hide then
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So they say
Somewhat heart warming to know that Cheaty are so malevolent they can even cause Reds and Utd deadshits to see eye to eye.
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City will obviously go after some kind of compensation, any thoughts on what would be fair or proportionate?
Kenwood juicer for every single fan they have.
That would be a fair compensation (and a nice surprise for those five feckers).
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Fixed it for you. That sounds about right for me.
115 or 130 charges?
Yeah, it was updated to 130 charges
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Inflation gone mad innit?
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Itâs sort of odd considering their mouthpieces were talking about them decreasing several months back.
Do be aware I would say of âsourcesâ.
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54x 14x 5x 7x 35 = 926,100 charges.
So will they also have to pay back the false title-winning prize money as well?
I really donât see this happening.
Not good enough imo. They need the Rangers treatment and more on top.
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Kick them so far out of the Football League that the owners will decide to walk away as they canât fleece anyone for any money, calling in their loans and withdrawing all Abu Dabai linked sponsorship deals forcing the grubby little gobshites to go down the fan trust ownership route meaning they will never get the sort of cash injection to see them move beyond the Dog&Duck sunday pub league.
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It needs to be harsh enough so that the fans of any team will start asking serious questions about the sort of people that own their clubs. I felt sorry for the Rangers fans at the time - at least the actual football fans amongst them. The knob-head hangers on can go to hell.
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The argument being made by many pushing this solution is it has longer and harsher effects than a one time penalty that sees them relegated. The concern with the latter is like Juve or Rangers they are back and competitive in one season whereas a multi season penalty would be designed to make CL all but impossible for 4-5 years in a row and the knock on effects of that in terms of current players forcing their way out and who would be willing to sign for them are enormous
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