Okay cool, but when the verdict is guilty and you dock them dozens of points and strip titles from them, relegate them. Then justice will be served.
I don’t know much about this case but why is everyone so sure that they are guilty?
Is it possible that someone with 115 charges is innocent? Yes. Is it likely? Absolutely not.
A few different reasons for me. Firstly the football leaks exposed City and PSG as having absolutely took the piss in terms of fair market value for sponsoring themselves. Though that evidence wasn’t obtained legally and likely wouldn’t be admissible in court. I recall emails from the club acknowledging they were missing ffp and deciding they needed another £10m a year UAE sponsorship deal given by their owners.
After that there have been articles published by respectable journalists investigating some of their sponsors. They have been getting millions a year from companies that straight up don’t exist. Companies where the CEO on LinkedIN is just an actors headshot.
It had been obvious to everyone they were financially doping in some way. Their revenues have been astronomical for years. There was no way they had managed to legitimately grow them so fast. I live in london and have seen many adverts on my Twitter to buy tickets to city games. They don’t really have many fans compared to other top clubs for one. Of course commercial income isn’t solely down to how many fans you have, but there’s no way they legitimately make more commercial revenue than Real Madrid.
11 point deduction 😬
Announced after they win the league by 12pts.
To Tottenham
As an unbiased Arsenal fan, I agree.
You got yourself a deal.
Spurs out here catchin strays
Got the feeling city will escape all charges.
Of course they will
Screw the points deduction. Strip them of the trophies illegally won.
ManCity have put in so much $$$$ since 2010 that I don’t see anything can happen to them. All this is for show
They should be relegated at a minimum. Two divisions if we are serious about these rules. But really, they will get a 15-point deduction, still get CL next year, and the farce continues. The PL have to do something that is worse than Everton just so people don’t start poking around looking for the bribe money, but not too bad that it costs them future bribe money. Fine line. 15 points leave everyone involved happy.
Year 3023*
wont happen. a slap on the wrist and 50k fine. lol.
115k fine and a bag of crisps
Just shows how stupid Evertons lawyers are, whymdint then choose to wait until 25 to get their sanction. Man City are just smarter.
I guarantee they will receive at most a punishment that people will not think is enough to match the breaches but not so outrageous that would risk mass protests from fan groups. Or, it’s entirely possible they use a media campaign and lawyers to sweep it under the rug completely and our extremely short attention spans will move on to something else. With all the corruption going on in the world, I cannot see them getting an adequate punishment.
Mass protest there are no city fans let them protest
The trouble is that a simple points deduction will simply say that breaking the rules to win trophies is fine. You can break the rules, win every trophy there is, including a treble, and then worry about the minimal consequences later. Even if they were relegated, it doesn’t matter, because they already have all the trophies.
Exactly that’s what happened in the baseball and the orioles. they should be stripped of their titles and in the record book it should say void. Even as an arsenal fan I don’t think it should be awarded to them that moment has past. But city shouldn’t get credit
Exactly. Cheat now, win everything and ensure the club has a structure in place to dominate for long into the future. Take a quick 30pt hit for 1 season wont scratch the surface and liekly still win 3 trophies lol.
Cheating is the better option.
Strip them of all their titles, relegate them multiple leagues and fine them massively.
Everton had 1 charge, known to the prem, and got 10pts. 115 charges and refusing to accept it needs to be a smacked down hard.
So a slap on the wrist then.
I’m sure they’ll get many penalties…kicks