Man City ban overturned.

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Absolute shithouse. Absolutely loath the geezer!

Fuck each and every part of that club....

Who knows how much bigger (and more successful) we'd have been were it not for these cheating scumbags....?

Probably about 5 years in the CL for starters which at circa 100m a season would mean the bulk of our stadium would already be paid off by now.
 
TheRealTI said:
He really is showing himself to be a despicable person isn't he?
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Chats all his yellow ribbon jive then gets paid a fortune to be the figurehead for the corrupt sportswashing operations of a bloodstained oppressive regime.
 
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Fans should turn their back on the game for a year it's obscene having a regime like Man City's owners represented in the premier League and makes the premier League's black lives Matter token gesture seem even more pathetic.
 
Hagrid said:
Jose made a great point. If they were innocent of the charges why did they get fined ? If you're not guilty you walk away free as a bird and with no penalty. The whole thing stinks and I have a feeling we may (if there's any justice in this world) have another Sepp Blatter type fiasco revealed in years to come. Sadly by then though it will be too late.
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It now seems the penalty for over-spending is to pay a fine - which of course means further overspending which is absurd.
 
Hoddling said:
Yep......and Pep has spent 700M of that since 2016..........but now says he needs a 150M injection to freshen things up this summer ha ha.......genius.

They will never get credit for their tainted success anywhere globally by other fans regardless of what their own "bring down the cartel" fans believe and simply they just have no respect in the game outside of their blue bubble. Dont believe their narrative that they were found not guilty either..........their guilt could not be enforced due to time limitations and their fine was reduced from 30M to 10M probably because the right people had their offshore retirement accounts padded.

Actually, just reading back that first paragraph, how embarassing is it that they got beat by so much in the league this year by a club that while not popular on here to many, has done it the right way.
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Them and Chelsea were the start of the death of football, VAR is putting the final nails in the coffin!
 
The Swellhead Spur said:
UEFA have no real control, everyone knows how corrupt they are, only a matter of time before a super League starts, teams in other leagues won't be happy City can do what they want with their money and want out
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They're part of the corruption - look at Platini, etc

Show is run by the sponsors and betting companies - rest are muppets to facilitate the media process, etc
 
ArcspacE said:
Good question - can someone clarify this?
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1st Champions League
2nd Champions League
3rd Champions League
4th Champions League
5th Europa League

League Cup winners - Europa League - so as it was Man City it will go back to league.

So

6th Europa League

FA Cup winners - Europa League - At present its Chelsea, Man U, Man City and Woolwich still in FA Cup.

Anyone but Woolwich and the Europa league place goes to 7th.

Think that's it.

So as long as Woolwich don't win FA Cup, then Europa league place in 7th position up for grabs.
 
So decrepit 80 plus year old uncle Joe, four billion in the bank and counting, could write a bankers draft for £200 million and make us proper players again. Oh and for those worried about him on 2.5% bond the bloke would have it back in compound intrest in four years without lifting finger. FFP is dead over to you Daniel.
 
"[I'm] incredibly happy for the decision which shows what all the people said about the club was not true and to defend on the pitch what we won on the pitch," said the Spaniard.

"Like I said many times, if we did something wrong we would accept the decision of Uefa and Cas because we did something wrong. We can defend ourselves. We have the right to defend ourselves when we believe what we have done is correct."

"We have made a step forward in 10 years. We invested a lot of money, like a lot of clubs. We did it the right way. We have not been banned because we followed the FFP rules. If we hadn't we would have been banned," Guardiola added.

"We showed it was not true. That's why people have to be happy or should at least accept it.

What an absolute dickhead.

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Man City deserve apology - Guardiola - BBC Sport

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says his team deserve an apology after the club successfully overturned their ban from European club competitions.
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Airfixx said:
Absolute shithouse. Absolutely loath the geezer!

Fuck each and every part of that club....

Who knows how much bigger (and more successful) we'd have been were it not for these cheating scumbags....?

Probably about 5 years in the CL for starters which at circa 100m a season would mean the bulk of our stadium would already be paid off by now.
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He really is showing himself to be a despicable person isn't he?
 
78Spur said:
The rules do have problems FFP should have been stricter in the first place.

The problem is that at some point big spending has to stop because a club can't sustain the costs naturally, this is why people were so annoyed about Real Madrid doing deals with the government to wash debt away.

What is wrong is someone coming in to a club and putting in hundreds of millions of pounds that a club could never raise as a business or could continue to afford. Because if an owner decides to leave the project, that club faces bankruptcy in the absence of a white Knight.

Now this is not common at the top tier but if you know your local non league or lower league clubs you can find several examples of chairmen putting in good money then withdrawing 5 years later, 2 years afterwards the club has gone bankrupt. FFP is not just about the top of the game, it's trying to prepare football clubs for the real world.

Man City and Chelsea have played the system and won, it's not right and though the law might be an ass, the bigger message is that if you do what you want and get questions afterwards, just take it to Cas with a good lawyer. Meanwhile everyone spends more than they should to keep up with the chasing pack. Sometimes nearly the entire club revenue, which is where things get problematic, what's more problematic? When clubs disguise sponsorship to lower the ratio, so the data is questionable and the club is not as secure as it seems.

This is not just about Spurs, it's the wellbeing of every club in the league, in most cases spending more on players and wages than they can justify. I am not saying that Levy has an excuse not to spend, more that the trend of overspending could create a league where a lot of clubs end up in dire straits. Also I don't want a competition which is prefaced on which club had the best spending power, that makes the whole exercise fairly pointless.
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The system was rigged against new investment though, by a clique of old money uber clubs who wanted to make sure they could maintain their domination.

The nuts and bolts of FFP, which insure clubs are run properly, that their books are balanced properly, debt is manageable, that they pay bills/staff/transfers properly etc, that their accounts are inspected, that wages/revenue ratios are maintained etc etc were all good.

But there should be absolutely nothing to stop new money coming into clubs that enables them to challenge the status quo. Otherwise football will just be an elite club in which only a handful of teams in Europe effectively carve up all the money between them, with their hegemony never threatened.

As long as that money is put into the clubs in the right way, gifted, related sponsorship, properly structured loans. Look at the investment in facilities they've made at City, how much that investment has created jobs and generated other revenue for related businesses.

Why shouldn't new clubs, areas, towns be entitled to have the hope of something more than forever playing a minor supporting role in the industry?
 
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