Manchester City found guilty of Premier League financial breaches
The most hard-hitting language, which surely means Manchester City must face the hardest-hitting sanctions Expulsion, and the independent football regulator looking at a forced sale Given the stridency, can normal football business even go on? www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
Anthony Soto10Force a sale. 3-5 year transfer ban. Drop them three or more tiers. Fines, plus compensation to the other teams. Gotta make an example of them.
Andy Flan7If they’re kicked out of the PL I hope the EFL refuses to have them unless they get new owners.
davidcd12.bsky.social4Forced sale is essential, keeps the club intact but removes and punishes the beneficiaries. plenty of precedent and obvious owners are unfit to run a football club,
Nigel Manton.3But why didn't the EPL and all the journalists call this out decades ago? Everyone could see city were playing champagne football on beer income. city have been the 1980s East Germany 800 metre runner of football for 15 years.
Rootless Cosmopolitan3Have to feel for Klopp and that marvellous LFC side of 2018-21. Getting 99/97 points and coming second to these cheats.
Paul Francis3Absolutely jaw dropping revelations. It cannot be business as usual after this. The Premier League needs to take the only course of action appropriate- expulsion from the football league and a forced sale of the club. Are criminal investigations warranted?
C. S. M7“As one source with knowledge of that previous Uefa case says, “it exposes them for exactly who they are and what they did”. Boom. That’s the divs reputation forever and a day….
Josh4Remains crazy that Chelsea did ~95% of what Man City did and received essentially no penalties.
C. S. M4They’re fucked. Fuck ‘em. I’ve no sympathy with their supporters. None of them young or old. They enabled this and glorified in the cheating. Fuck ‘em.
Man City have shown zero remorse and are still belittling the legal process. Hard to see how they can expect any leniency.
Henry Mance38Yesterday the CEO described the (very exhaustive) ruling as "an opinion of the Premier League commission that is negative to our interests". Bizarre!
Tom Haddon7It's also quite funny reading through the report. This section especially: PL: your sponsorship is a direct transfer from a government MC: not at all, it's just a big ol' coincidence that our sponsors get funding from government PL: sure, Jan.
Pipcarey3Looks like the 'noisy neighbours' were running a crack den.
Pervis Purves2They should be forced to play all their away games on a cold, wet Tuesday night at Stoke.
Jon Loveridge2The sad thing about comments like this, look at what Mancini said also. Mancini, Soriano - it doesn’t matter to these people. They’ll take their money and success and just move on. It’s the clubs legacy fans and really the players who have been totally let down
benprice55.bsky.social1Pure ego. Sheik Mansour and Khaldoon cannot countenance a universe in which any of the following might be true… -they might be subject to rules in the first place -bodies might exist with the power to formally declare them cheats -bodies might exist with the power to apply consequences
The effect on the Man City players and their fans must be devastating, but it is nothing compared to the potential damage to English football if the punishment isn't appropriate. Relegation and stripping of all the titles is the minimum. #mcfc
Si Domingo4Owners must be made to sell up too imo.
Malaga Bill3The more you read and know the facts of it, the more you realise that a pts deduction which gives them one year in the Championship cannot be sufficient.
Steve1Their fans knew they were cheating. They just wanted to steal other fans “memories”
dcash.bsky.social1Falsifying accounts is a criminal offence. HMRC should be all over this case as well.
stefaniabarutta.bsky.social1Juve was relegated,points deducted in 2006&titles stripped in Calciopoli scandal which involved ACMilan, Lazio, Fiorentina(who didn’t get same punishment).It was match fixing via corrupt referees. Was it worse?Yes&no. Yes because they set out to cheat,no because you can pinpoint the actual cheating.
"What will the Premier League be like without Man City?" What *was* it with Man City? The best teams left exhausted, beaten up, and obviously left cheated. Klopp eventually quit though sheer exhaustion from it all. Our competition, over more than a decade, was a sham. They should never come back.
Philarsopher10I'm basing this on Arsenal's 23/24 season as it hit me the hardest, as an Arsenal fan. I can't even comprehend what it was like to be a Liverpool fan, player, manager in 2018/19.
Goonraeg1It’s untenable with them in it - that’s clear to everyone
Lindsey1Never understood that argument. No club is bigger than a league. People watched football before the cheating started & will continue to. People don't watch PL just for MC. It's a bit like saying, "What will the PL be like if (club) gets relegated?" What will it be like w/o them? Fair. Legit. Fun.
