Manchester City

[Nicey]

VAR is a ****ing joke. Rivals or not, those decisions were a complete farce. It serves no purpose.

The ball was goal bound, it hit his arm from some distance, peno all day long

[Nicey]

Before we can hope for anything from City, we have to do our part, if we do, it does not matter what they do or who they rest they cannot affect our chances.

This weekend is huge, they all are, get up for the game, get behind the team both online and off and lets drive them over the line

[Frenchie]

**** them focus on us even a draw at the scum leaves destiny in our hands.

Hope they come at us all guns blazing and we destroy them on counter.

[Bender]

Ban them
Manchester City made a banned payment of £200,000 to Jadon Sancho's agent when the England winger was 14 years old, according to Der Spiegel.

The German magazine claims City made the payment to Emeka Obasi when they signed Sancho, now at Borussia Dortmund, from Watford in March 2015.

Football Association rules say young players cannot be represented by an agent until the year they turn 16.

"The attempt to damage our reputation is organised and clear," City said.

"We will not be providing any comment on out-of-context materials purported to have been hacked or stolen from City Football Group and Manchester City personnel and associated people."
BBC

[Nicey]

Well they have set a precedent with Chelsea, 2 Years no signings, this not the first time Citah have been caught up to no good, hopefully, they will get the preferable book thrown at tiem.

[dom9]

They set a precedent with us with a 2 year ban on signing youngsters, so I suspect that's the route they will follow as the cases are more similar.

[Cormack74]

For anyone who likes a bit of La Liga, ITV has won the rights to show one match per week until the end of the season.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-6734765/ITV-broadcast-free-air-coverage-one-La-Liga-match-week-end-season.html

[labourRed]

They set a precedent with us with a 2 year ban on signing youngsters, so I suspect that's the route they will follow as the cases are more similar.

Simply not true.

We got handed a ban based on a rule that was introduced the summer previously by offering private education etc to one player.

Barcelona, Madrid and Chelsea were found guilty on multiple counts of signing young players. The latter 29, not sure about the numbers of the rest but multiple is key. All clubs got appeals rejected by CAS, Chelsea just went to FIFA i believe as there is precedence set with CAS rejecting the appeals. I expect FIFA to maybe reduce the fine but uphold the ban, this is something they have history of being very tight on.

[dom9]

Simply not true.



We got handed a ban based on a rule that was introduced the summer previously by offering private education etc to one player.



Barcelona, Madrid and Chelsea were found guilty on multiple counts of signing young players. The latter 29, not sure about the numbers of the rest but multiple is key. All clubs got appeals rejected by CAS, Chelsea just went to FIFA i believe as there is precedence set with CAS rejecting the appeals. I expect FIFA to maybe reduce the fine but uphold the ban, this is something they have history of being very tight on.

So which previous case is the City one most similar to?

[Cormack74]

For anyone who likes a bit of La Liga, ITV has won the rights to show one match per week until the end of the season.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...nd-season.html

Hmm no idea why I stuck this here when I was aiming for the GF thread.

[Bender]

Laporte and Fernandinho Out for a few weeks injured

[Fosterbloke]

Laporte and Fernandinho Out for a few weeks injured

Otamendi is a walking red card, hopefully this hurts them!

[Bender]

Yep �� amazed he didn’t get one v Chelsea

[Tatterdemalion]

Simply not true.

We got handed a ban based on a rule that was introduced the summer previously by offering private education etc to one player.

Barcelona, Madrid and Chelsea were found guilty on multiple counts of signing young players. The latter 29, not sure about the numbers of the rest but multiple is key. All clubs got appeals rejected by CAS, Chelsea just went to FIFA i believe as there is precedence set with CAS rejecting the appeals. I expect FIFA to maybe reduce the fine but uphold the ban, this is something they have history of being very tight on.

I didn't pay much attention to that at the time, but it confused me then and still does. What is wrong with offering a young player private education? Was it seen as an inducement?

[Vermilion]

Just signed a 10 yr 65mill per anum deal with someone.

******s.