Manchester City

[dom9]

That reads like something written by Dunk on Koptalk

[Alex]

Lot of cope being smoked there.

But with that said, this should be so much more transparent than it has been. As it lets people paint their own “stitch up narrative” because of all the secrecy.

[Fivex]

BS apparently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W5fBtehJAw

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[vlahka]

[Slinky Skills]

They spelt 'wholeheartedly' as two words as well.

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[ChesterDave]

14 charges of not providing accurate payment info relating to players? So bull****ting on where the player is paid from? Sounds like HMRC might need to get involved too.

[ChesterDave]

And as for what the Premier League are managing... Surely a better focus would be the owners of one club literally greenlighting citizens to be ****ing murdered for objecting their homes he destroyed?

[peterbread]

I presume the security they are talking about is to deal with the Forest owner when he hears the news.

I don’t see how they don’t punish them properly. How are all the other clubs going to react if they are let off? Do we really think they will all sit around and not do anything. While a couple might be happy as they think they can do the same most wouldn’t. And how will fans react. How many of you will be done with football if this is not dealt with properly. If the league isn’t taken seriously anymore surely it’s going to cost them financially.

Maybe I’m being too naive or positive about it all but I’m looking forward to them being done and the mad scramble for all their players ready to jump ship.

[DerKrampus]

The refused settlement? So an admission of trying to buy their way out of trouble.

I'd laugh if they accepted then that put them over FFP and they got done anyway.

Absolute ******s. I hope they're relegated to the Bulgarian 4th division.

[vlahka]

You all know barely anything will happen to them.

[Angryred]

Nah, they might get done on the PSR crap with points deductions as the EPL cannot stand by & let Everton/Notts Forest get stung with City getting nothing. Arsenal might win the league that way.

[Rich]

I think they've cheated for so long and so hard that they'll get off as the alternative is so unpalatable they'll shy away from it. It calls into disrepute 15 years of results essentially.

[DerKrampus]

I think they've cheated for so long and so hard that they'll get off as the alternative is so unpalatable they'll shy away from it. It calls into disrepute 15 years of results essentially.

Damned if they do and damned if they don't?

[vlahka]

There wont be any points dropped. I can see a couple things. At best a fine. At worst a transfer halt for 1 season. Both wont affect them at all and they'll keep all their trophies and standing.

[Exiled_red]

I think they've cheated for so long and so hard that they'll get off as the alternative is so unpalatable they'll shy away from it. It calls into disrepute 15 years of results essentially.

I have said this as a reason I don't think they will be stripped of titles, the damage that it does to the 'PL brand' is huge. For me this is a damage limitation exercise as much (if not more) for the PL than it is for City.

If they are found guilty I can see the league either trying to limit it so that the damage isn't as bad or at least doesn't appear so bad. Any of the years outside of the charges won't be touched so anything that they have won since even if it is built on dodgy foundations will be regarded as clean.

The problem for the PL is that a guilty verdict means many clubs in the league would have strong cases for claiming that they were cheated out of more prize money from finishing higher in the league and possibly missing out on CL / EL revenue, you could imagine that there would be dozens of claims. IMO a guilty verdict could just be the start of a massive number of claims against the PL/City.