PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

Nick L said:
If thats the case maybe the club can find him a job flipping burgers cos he aint the standard for first team football anymore .
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That’s out of order. Bernardo has been run into the ground. He’s one of the few players that managed to stay fit and put a shift in this season, whilst everything else crumbled around him. You can’t execute a press by yourself while old men next you can barely amble about the pitch. Stick to chatting shit about Miss Rhyl. Football isn’t for you.
 
Gingers Dad said:
Enjoyed that rant. The only thing I'd question is, does there really need to be a set of financial rules? The game ran OK for many years with just a handful of clubs overreaching themselves financially.
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'Financial rules' is a euphemism for 'threat financial straitjacket'. The greatest irony is these 'rules' have been instigated by neo-liberals. It's the old adage of socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor. Have these rules eradicated cowboy owners from the game? How did Football survive for so long without these rules? And isn't self-responsibility and the jeopardy that comes with it the spice of life that has helped make football so popular?
 
Gingers Dad said:
Enjoyed that rant. The only thing I'd question is, does there really need to be a set of financial rules? The game ran OK for many years with just a handful of clubs overreaching themselves financially.
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There is no need for financial rules in football worldwide never mind just England. But the organisation's have caused their own problems by trying to keep their cash cows at the top!! Now it's got to late u can't be saying city rags dippers etc can only spend the same as say Bournemouth as the income and outgoings are vastly different. Time to go back to no financial controls your in charge of your own finances if you spend to much and go out of business it's your problem there will be no financial help from the PL OR UEFA etc.
 
Nick L said:
If thats the case maybe the club can find him a job flipping burgers cos he aint the standard for first team football anymore .
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Bernado is the only outfield player to have been fit all season. He has run himself into the ground and is clearly exhausted.

He regularly runs over 15k a match, more than any other player in the league. I think he set a record against Liverpool in 2020 ofc12k and has regularly gone above that since, pushing 17k in one match. We'd be much lower down the league if it wasn't for him.

Despite his wife hating it here, he's always honoured his contract and given us everything, and you should see him dance at the victory parades when we sing his song, he loves it!
 
TedofChume said:
It was this but that did it for me, totally bias and framing Simon Cliff as a baddy:

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Judging by the sheer grandiosity of his pronouncements, City’s general counsel, Simon Cliff, seems to believe he actually runs English football now. Maybe he actually does run English football. He certainly seems to have Richard Masters, the Premier League’s rather beleaguered chief executive, right where he wants him.
Cliff is a faintly Musk-ish figure, who appears to be fond of shouting the odds and calling the shots. He tells the other 19 Premier League clubs what is legal and what is illegal and when to fall in line and when to disobey. The impression he gives is very much that City run English football now."

All I remember Simon Cliff stating was that City had won the APT case not the Premier League, (which Masters was claiming). Simon Cliff has since been proven to be right on this point.
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Yes he is such a baddy with all this power and influence, yet no fear in writing such an article about him, aye makes sense.

It is all posturing and building a narrative. But this is the key bit in the article driving it all. 'And if the Premier League’s attempt to stop a spending free-for-all fails when the verdicts on the 115 charges are announced, if the league’s authority is fatally undermined, then what is left of the top flight’s competitive balance will be lost, too, as Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi lavish even more money on Newcastle United and City.'
 
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