Paqueta Charged By The FA.

[Chris-NCL]

How comes that the Tonali news broke and within weeks he was banned for 10 months last year (in Italy) and here we have Paqueta who was about to join City August 2023 and the news broke he was involved in some betting scandal and investigation still going on more than a year later. at this rate he will retire before the case is done.

its more an FA investigation than PL, but have the feeling if this happens in Serie A they would have come to a conclusion long time ago.

Tonali was simply just making bets, Paqueta is accused of a form of match fixing.
Tonali also had clear evidence against him, such as other players grassing him up, and his accounts being seen (why the gambling companies get away with allowing players have accounts, and only pull them up when they win big is beyond me). Ultimately he quickly admitted the charges. I’m also not convinced the first we heard about it was when it was at an early stage, and that it was much further down the line.
Paqueta is denying everything, and as it was other people making the bets, it’s harder to prove.