Added to the fact the Red Top Mafia & Spuds have never voted against the Premier League to anyone's knowledge, it shows who's truly behind the steering wheel.
What's happening to PL football now is shocking. The saddest part about it is how long it's taken several PL clubs to finally begin to understand what City have been warning against since 2010.
The even sadder part is there's still club owners who must realise this, but who don't care as long as they retain their PL status.
They know they've little chance of ever landing honours, let alone the title, so their model is based solely on PL survival, & stopping an ambitious Championship club with a minted owner getting into the PL & threatening their place near the bottom of the PL trough.
With the Cartel clubs' client media spinning their anti-City narrative, the unwitting football masses who support the also-rans are blissfully unaware of the reality of the situation. As someone pointed out, Reading voted against City & for PL FFP/PSR. Now look where they are? \0/
Many home truths in your post.
The ambition of many club owners has been solely to access the financial rewards of the Premier League by hanging on to the coat tails of the "red top mafia". The difference in monies from the PL and the Championship and leagues below is night and day. This has filtered everywhere. The MSM is in their thrall and the influence and the self-interest of these self-serving clubs pervades everywhere. (similar in Europe)
I can see the likes of Simon Jordan being seduced by easy money when buying Crystal Palace. He is in awe of the likes of the rags whom he has described as a money making machine. He failed but is not old enough to remember the pre Ferguson, pre Shankly or pre Chapman days of buying success.
Too many are incapable or unwilling to look beyond their personal bank balance as seen in the mismanagement of several clubs and going bust at all levels that FFP was meant to address.
Those early days of the PL have gone where the "legacy elite" could pick off the best players from clubs trying to "grow organically" without external investment. Chelsea and now City have disrupted the cartel. Success generates revenue and Manchester City have dominated over the past 10 years. The days of red shirt hegemony are over as their American business model has been overtaken and they have lost the new generation of fans coming through.
Back to Khaldoon saying City cannot be responsible for other football clubs shortcomings. Increasingly the FFP charges, PL and other rules are shown to be desperate measures. FSG, hedge fund and other partners have given up investing long term leading to Klopps departure. The Glazers selling out makes seeing the scale of their demise clear with scruffy Jim thinking he can pick up the pieces by buying in know-how whilst turning a blind eye to the scale of investmet needed. The Arse for all their pleas of poverty are owned by a scion of the richest family in the USA (previously with Russion oligarc Usmanov) and the spuds for all their obfusication cannot hide links to Joe Lewis recently found guilty in USA courts of insider dealing.
These people are not leaders to preach morality or fair play. They have been found out. Their cheerleaders are trying to save face by defending the indefensible. Whilst it would be foolish to predict the outcome of the PL charges, the burden of proof lies with them.
I'd guess that the charges are irrelevant for most football fans in England, apart from the usual suspects. Those overseas will not know or give a stuff. They do see the excellence of MCFC and CFG. The operation and credibility of the PL has increasingly come under scrutiny with the appointment of an independant regulator becoming increasingly likely. My money is on City to prevail.
