PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[slbsn]

It was a “everyone says they’re guilty, but most won’t go on record by name, but here’s what they said anyway” followed by “but City deny the charges” as almost an afterthought.

Sure but I am sure most other clubs think and hope City are "guilty" - that is just the facts.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Any City fan who subscribes to this Yankee Red Club mouthpiece needs to reconsider their options…..

Part of my Apple News subscription, if you’re inferring I need to support someone else…but thanks for telling me what I should and should not read…fascist!

 

[Bluewonder]

by Adam Crafton Aug 15, 2024 8:15 PM

Adam Crafton began his journalistic career before he went to Cambridge University to study French and Spanish. A writer for the Daily Mail, he has been shortlisted four times for the SJA Young Sportswriter of the Year Award. He lives in London.

He's a rag.

 

[ChicagoBlue]

Sure but I am sure most other clubs think and hope City are "guilty" - that is just the facts.

I’d like to think most sentient adults wait until they have the facts before making up their minds, especially large company executives, but I guess all bets are off when it comes to supporting your own team.

 

[Withnail]

What ever the verdict the damage has been done, City will always be guilty in the eyes of our bitter rivals. I will be glad when this is all over and whatever happens I will still support City and they will still be the best team in the land and all the world.

In terms of this season winning this case against the PL is our most important target this season imo.

 

[Shirley]

Absolute fucking hatchet job thinly disguised as journalism on The Athletic tonight!

Manchester City, the Premier League and the season everything might change

A few excerpts:

There are some (executives) who are so worn down by the decade-long pursuit of City that they fear Manchester City’s case may result in a financial settlement rather than a sporting penalty. Then there are rival executives who consider this outcome to be impossible, utterly outrageous, and say it would cast the death knell for financial sustainability not only within the English game but across European football.

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As one Premier League club executive says: “The collective view I’ve heard is that an appropriate sanction would have to be a points deduction so substantial — we are talking here between 70 and 80 points — that it guarantees City a season in the Championship.”

Another of the sport’s leading figures suggests the punishment ought to be more creative, that a number of points could be deducted from City in each of the next three seasons, meaning the club’s chance of Champions League qualification would be severely restricted. Another compares the City case to that of the English rugby union side Saracens who, when Premiership champions in 2019, were deducted 35 points, hit with a £5.36million ($6.9m at current rates) fine and relegated to the second division owing to non-compliance with the league’s salary-cap rules.

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A coach who came up against City has simply made his mind up about their guilt and argues they have not achieved their success with the same level of discipline as their rivals, but suspects it is too late now to truly remedy the matter. At the same time, there are fears that a failure to convict and punish City poses major questions about the Premier League’s ability to run itself, particularly with the prospect of an independent regulator still looming next year. Numerous club executives say their incentives to follow the rules would be greatly diminished if the Premier League proves toothless on City.

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In English football, nobody is prepared to put their name to quotes about the City case. That is not the same for La Liga president Javier Tebas, who has been a longstanding critic of the impact of clubs linked to nation-states. City always insist they are not owned by the state of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), but Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan is the deputy prime minister of the UAE and the minister of presidential affairs. He is the majority shareholder in City via Newton Investment and Development, a company he wholly owns and which is registered in Abu Dhabi.

Tebas tells The Athletic: “It is difficult for me to say what is proportionate in England because I don’t know so well the English rules and law. But I can refer to what happened at UEFA… then what happened at CAS — in a resolution I would describe as a joke — is they took the sanction away. It was a very controversial decision to take away that sanction. Now, let’s see, I won’t dare to predict, but I am aware that there is a lot of concern among many clubs in the Premier League about what happens with City. What happens with Man City is a before and after moment for the Premier League itself.”

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And so on…

Anyone would think the Euros are over, the Olympics are over, and City are about to embark on the chance to win a FIFTH STRAIGHT TITLE!!!

UFB…Oh wait, no, it’s entirely predictable!

If you thought the whole of English football was praying for an Arsenal title win last season, one can only imagine the narrative we face this season.

Let the games begin!

I initially subscribed to the athletic but didn’t take long to figure it’s simply a rag and dipper fanzine, there are too many of them worldwide to pander to.

 

[nmc]

Part of my Apple News subscription, if you’re inferring I need to support someone else…but thanks for telling me what I should and should not read…fascist!

I suggested you reconsider… I didn’t dictate… and it wasn’t necessarily aimed at you either but maybe I failed to take into consideration your overwhelming sense of self importance and for that I apologise.

 

[makinghistory]

Fearing the worst. Hoping for the best.

 

[Rochdale Blue]

There are mor

I’d like to think most sentient adults wait until they have the facts before making up their minds, especially large company executives, but I guess all bets are off when it comes to supporting your own team.

Your average sewer rat is more sentient than the average sports journo.

 

[cheekybids]

I’d like to think most sentient adults wait until they have the facts before making up their minds, especially large company executives, but I guess all bets are off when it comes to supporting your own team.

They aren’t named it’s likely made up.