Manchester City

[Buzzo]

https://twitter.com/TimesSport/statu...27361827827712

Rangers got relegated 3 divisions for this sort of stuff. As well as FFP this is also a tax dodge.

City are pretty ****ing arrogant, but it is not unheard of for teams to be punished for financial irregularity.

Juve also got relegated.

I don't think the PL or the FA have got the balls.

[Kenneth]

Looking at this from a different POV.

It must be incredibly difficult/impossible to break into the current European Cartel of mega clubs. Its no surprise that the two most recent are Petro-Dollar backed. They have to break rules to get to the top table. Because lets not forget its those at that table who had originally set the rules to keep others away.

FFP has its place, but at its core it seems like a way of stopping fast growth to keep the money between the few.

Now speaking as a Liverpool fan, I hope these cunts get the book thrown at them. Even if we wrote that book

It was a good try, but ultimately bollocks. The "I had to break into the house and steal the TV because there was no other way to get in" argument

FFP was supposed to be about making the game sustainable, stopping it being a billionaire's toy, preventing player and wage inflation strangling clubs outside of the elite, preventing football being a money launderette and helping to prevent clubs going bust by yo-yo funding. The rules were there for the good of the sport, the breaking of them was purely for the self interest of a few egotistical billionaires. It wasn't clubs working on a strategy to break into the elite, it was individuals wanting to find a way of owning an elite football club, any elite football club, and choosing the most cost efficient way.

[Kenneth]

Rangers got relegated 3 divisions for this sort of stuff. As well as FFP this is also a tax dodge.

City are pretty ****ing arrogant, but it is not unheard of for teams to be punished for financial irregularity.

Juve also got relegated.

I don't think the PL or the FA have got the balls.

It might damage 'the product'.

[Buzzo]

It might damage 'the product'.

The irony being the opposite is true and the product is already damaged.

[Cormack74]

Highly unlikely, well improbable in all honesty, but I'm hoping that all the major leagues get together and gang up on them and those French ****ers - threaten to sue maybe or whatever other options are out there so that UEFA and FIFA have to act.

Actually now is exactly the time for talk of a super league - one which excludes MC and PSG.

[Shaggy]

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[dom9]

I'm starting to wonder if there are any rules they haven't broken.

[Buzzo]

They could be used as the perfect example for Fifa and the FA to set some genuine rules in place and show some teeth with some sanctions.

It won’t happen tho.

[dom9]

City continue to rub everyone's noses in it with a £300k p/w contract for Sterling.

I wonder if he'll ever really fulfill his potential.

[RedReet]

City continue to rub everyone's noses in it with a £300k p/w contract for Sterling.

I wonder if he'll ever really fulfill his potential.

He's 11 goal involvements in 9 PL matches this season and 29 in 29 last. Those are world class figures.

[BobTheCharmer]

I hope they smash Utd 8-0.

[dom9]

He's 11 goal involvements in 9 PL matches this season and 29 in 29 last. Those are world class figures.

Really?

In my admittedly limited eyes he just comes across as really wasteful most of the time, and fluky when something does come off.

An enigma, it's fair to say.

[Norbs]

I hope they smash Utd 8-0.

I hope Utd smash them 25 - 0, it'll give us a chance to keep up with City on GD.

[Norbs]

Actually, 45-0

[BobTheCharmer]

I hope Utd smash them 25 - 0, it'll give us a chance to keep up with City on GD.

very good.