Manchester City

[Exiled_red]

Kieran Maguire (Football Finance expert) was on 5 Live this morning. He said ‘if’ found guilty the aggregate penalty would be 60 to 100 points. WTF?!? Even at the top end of that range they could stay up so no penalty what so ever.

1 penalty for 9 years worth of offences would just laugh in the face of the rest of the league.

They should be getting penalties for whatever breeches they're found guilty of, in each isolated season that those breeches occurred - Not one big one this season that in effect does nothing other than not allowing them to win the title this season and miss champions league.

Almost guaranteed they'll get away with a slap on the wrist though because the league is corrupt and run by utter pricks.

Points deductions and fines even stripping of trophies is relatively tame in comparison to what they are accused of. If guilty they have distorted the game and even if they are financially meeting the rules now that is almost certainly on the back of rule breaking in the past. There is no way around that, even if you kick them out of the league (Football League not just PL) they have the resources that they will immediately come back with promotion after promotion, Once back in the PL it may take them a few years to get back to the top, but reality of the situation is that they will. I have said before if guilty there is no punishment severe enough to come close to putting right what they did.

If theya re found guilty I don't see the stripping of titles (as it devalues the PL product), to be honest I am not sure they will get a penalty severe enough to see them relegated (Football League won't want their product ruined). It will have to be a points deduction harsher than Everton and Forest received but a team that is likely to get 90-100pts could probably survive even a 60pt deduction so...

[Norbs]

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/a...s/c9wkjnvpy2ko

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Cheers Slinky

[Norbs]

That's the same line Blatter used to peddle. They have had decades to sort out the corruption and were found to be complicit to the core. The Government should ignore it and put robust governance in place in the UK.

If UEFA and FIFA don't like it, fine, ban all 4 home nations and find somewhere else to host your tournament. At least we wouldn't have to work around the pointless international breaks or worry about the inevitable international duty injuries!

And international football is **** anyway

[Fivex]

A 1000 point multi-year penalty would just about cover it.

Every time they’re in the PL, they get deducted 100 points until the 1000 is exhausted.

[Norbs]

Yeah, but they'll probably get a 1,000 point deduction for a single season, delayed until 2250

[Doc_Piptorious]

Something separate I think mate. UEFA have said England will be expelled from the next European championships even though they're joint hosting it lol and any English team involved in European action will also be banned. Basically saying their rules state that Governments are not allowed to interfere in financial aspects of football leagues it seems. Or something along those lines.

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The UEFA statement was a joke. Was a bit in it saying (paraphrasing here of course) the UK government should not be be able to block/regulate foreign governments buying football clubs that operate financially on UL soil.


So basically they do not want the UK government to be able to get regulate with footy financial matters on UK soil but would be ok for foreign states to operate financially using footy teams in the UK.

[Fivex]

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https://twitter.com/deadlinedaylive/...70005972226170

Even if it was 30 points a season, with Pep in charge, they'd probably still make the CL places.

However, if they do get a points deduction, that denotes being found guilty, and Pep said he would leave if that happened....

[labourRed]

Clickbait, the trail only started they wouldn't be mooting punishment already.

[Exiled_red]

Clickbait, the trail only started they wouldn't be mooting punishment already.

It is to a certain extent clickbait it could also be info being leaked by one or more people with an agenda.

But taking it at face value points deductions across multiple seasons suggests they will remain in the PL i.e. they aren't going to be relegated one or more divisions. Not saying that it's true but it's an odd thing to just come up with, you would either think a big points deduction or relegation one or more divisions this is a halfway house that looks to have had some thought go into it. A punishment greater than 1 season of points deductions but not as severe as kicking them out of the league...

[vlahka]

Every season from when they started cheating should have 30 points deducted. And then expelled from playing football for the next 10 years. I'd be the best judge. I'd probably also be assassinated the week after.

[ChesterDave]

9 rlegations should do it. They still get to play in Anfield but against Lower Breck FC

[vlahka]

Relegate them into a special league that only has everton and they're forced to play each other 38 times a season for the next 10 years.

[RedAndWhite]

Relegate them into a special league that only has everton and they're forced to play each other 38 times a season for the next 10 years.

And the Ev will probably still manage to finish third......

[Charly]

Even if it was 30 points a season, with Pep in charge, they'd probably still make the CL places.

However, if they do get a points deduction, that denotes being found guilty, and Pep said he would leave if that happened....

That means the titles would be reawarded. No point in doing it otherwise.