Seafordian Spurs
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'now' not 'no' Rant over.
Der Spiegel Football Leaks revelations
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spursfan77
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UEFA and Fifa might not do anything, but the PL have the ability to relegate them and strip them of their titles if they think they’ve manipulated the league. It must be in the rules somewhere.
Riandor
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For the good of the game something like this ideally has to happen.
Alas all it will do is push City and Chelsea into setting up said Super League and sticking two fingers up at the FA. They won't accept any punishment from the FA that threatens their brand and ultimately the FA are powerless to act.
SpursD22
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This will never happen but imagine if the FA did strip City of their titles and gave it to the team that came second (like what happened in Serie A 2006-2007)
We came second the season Chelsea won the league, it would be the most Spursy thing ever
Gb160
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Martin Samuel pretty much spot on here...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...-clubs-want-join-super-league-call-bluff.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/f...-clubs-want-join-super-league-call-bluff.html
Seafordian Spurs
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The Daily Mail rocking people power. Amazing.
'O Zio
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Well at the recent world cup only 6 of the 25-man squad play for clubs outside the "Big 6" so your argument sort of falls down there. Yes clubs are heavily reliant on foreign players but the vast majority of England players still come from the top clubs.
nattydredd
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Chapter 2: The Secret 'Project Longbow'
A phony, multimillion-pound deal and behind-the-scenes lobbying: Before the introduction of the new Financial Fair Play rules, Manchester City did all it could to dodge spending regulations. The club insisted to UEFA it was innocent.
Spiegel Link
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Action by our own Premier League has to be taken..otherwise it's just a green flag for other to follow suit.
Sickening part 2 of this leak.
A phony, multimillion-pound deal and behind-the-scenes lobbying: Before the introduction of the new Financial Fair Play rules, Manchester City did all it could to dodge spending regulations. The club insisted to UEFA it was innocent.
Spiegel Link
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Action by our own Premier League has to be taken..otherwise it's just a green flag for other to follow suit.
Sickening part 2 of this leak.
Not read yet but is the phony aponsor deal with etihad? Because, well i mean, thank you captain obvious. If thats the case, there’s another phony sponsor deal somewhere in the PL if ya look hard enough(not hard at all). In fact, that club had these allegations against them waged but the PL and FA did nothing. Soooooooo
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Bensonrecon
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Hilarious. I hope there is an investigation but for La Liga to call for it when they allowed clubs to be bankrolled by illegal state aid for a quarter of a century and do everything they can to protect their big 2 in terms of TV revenue? They are just as dodgy as City, just as questionable as the FA. It's like standing in front of a corpse with multiple stab wounds, while covered in blood and still holding the knife and pointing at someone else and calling them a murderer
Oh that’s rich, la liga
Riandor
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Yeah pot and kettles...
I agree this needs properly investigating though, we have assumed or guessed at much of this oursleves for a while now. They can do Chelsea afterwards as well.
Before anyone accuses us over double standards, feel free to investigate all clubs for all I care, including Spurs.
Tucker
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The sad thing is, that our press have been complicit in this cheating for years. None of them have had the guts to seriously investigate City. It’s taken a German magazine to do their job for them. I can’t imagine one of our papers bothering to investigate Bayern, or Barca.
Seafordian Spurs
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Indeed. As I said earlier it's a joke: City are bad but what about the way TV revenue is divided between the LA Liga clubs. Lots for RM. Lots for Saint Barca. Fuck all for the rest of them.
Tucker
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Just had a little read of the blue moon forum again. Good god they are in denial about this. Half of them think they’ve done nothing wrong, half of them think FFP was set up to prevent City from winning anything, and there’s even one fruit loop on there trying to claim City haven’t bought their success because they haven’t signed Messi and Ronaldo.
Lighty64
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god I hope they come crushing down, and the FA, PL and UEFA grow a pair and rid them from football
this thread has shown how hard it is to compete with the top when building a stadium.
I actually am starting to hope they do this breakaway league and it fails especially if there is a ruling that they start at the bottom again. I know it will hit Football massively and hurt us with our debt, but once that debt has gone we should be the team to follow.
I have just heard guardiola protesting the clubs innocence ;considering most of this started before he was at the club and there is no manager anywhere that has full knowledge of financial matters at any club.Still when you getting paid more than 12million pounds a year you would try to plead innocence.I think he should keep his gob shut and his nose out of this affair because if by some slight chance they were to be sanctioned he would come across as being in the know of this.you never know maybe he is because all that the likes of guardiola want is unlimited funds to spend and who cares how illegal it was gained he is just another one that would welcome "The greed is good league"wankers all
Gb160
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If it was happening then, it sure as shit is still happening now.
It's way above his head, he'd just fuck off to the next club that offers him unlimited resources if they were properly sanctioned....they won't be though.
Dov67
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Financial doping is the perfect description for City and Chelsea. When Man U spend (and waste) hundreds of millions at least its their own money generated by the club itself.
I like Guardiola a lot (hard not when watching his teams play so beautifully), and one cannot argue that at least City's owners have invested wisely in the whole local area, but ultimately even Blackburn Rovers managed to buy a premier league title.
I like Guardiola a lot (hard not when watching his teams play so beautifully), and one cannot argue that at least City's owners have invested wisely in the whole local area, but ultimately even Blackburn Rovers managed to buy a premier league title.
