Excuse my french but that Athletic article is a croc of shite.
10k payment made 9 years ago, and it’s like the end of the world is coming down. City completely deny the claim and the dad went to a couple of scouting training sessions anyway. even if they didn’t this sort of thing has been going on for years at every club so who really gives a fuck.
just invites loads of moronic fans to pile on in with the cheaters line and all that rubbish.
The athletic are turning in to a tabloid trashy clickbait rubbish, at the start I really enjoyed the articles.
That’s the idea keep the negative articles the narrative that city cheat lie and are state owned! Eventual when we are the biggest team in the world maybe in 10 20 years and half these who are on the payroll of the history clubs and the Bayern’s Madrid’s Barceloners are pensioned off of dead the narrative will change. City playing the very very long game.