re: Man city confirmed to be cheating count, now with Barca being cheating count as well!!!

Don’t strip the titles

Everyone knows they are tainted

Point deduction big enough to ensure they are relegated

5 year transfer ban. Let’s see how good that academy really is

EFL doesn’t accept them so they go down to non league football

If City were innocent they would have fully cooperated with the EPL and UEFA and showed the books, like every other club. Instead they obstructed and hid things.

Over inflated deals by over a £1 Billion over ten years to offset losses despite getting accepted losses for infrastructure and academy etc.

Before any knob yet says but what about since 2018. The cheating allowed the club to get to a place to sign Pep and all those players during his tenure.

Also now it’s coming out the Haaland deal was hiding about €200 million in cost.

City fans turned their noses to everyone with insane arrogance. Well now your face deep into an endless pill of shite. You fricking twats.

You cheating bastards you know who you are

Full statement from the Premier League.

Also not mentioned in the last few pages. if they would’ve just cooperated with the investigation and admitted wrongdoing, the punishment wouldn’t be nearly as bad. But they have denied and fought tooth & nail against indefensible evidence.

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An independent Commission has found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation. The independent Commission found that between Seasons 2009/10 and 2017/18:

- Manchester City arranged ‘sham’ contracts (which misrepresented the true agreement between the parties) with a number of its commercial partners, as well as relying on ‘sham’ agreements with others, to artificially inflate the club’s revenues and reduce its costs - The club filed misstated accounts and concealed the true state of its finances from its auditors and football regulators - Manchester City was significantly in breach of both the Premier League’s and UEFA’s spending limits - During the Premier League’s investigation, Manchester City committed multiple breaches of its duties of co-operation and utmost good faith towards the League (three of the four alleged breaches were upheld) The independent Commission found that Manchester City arranged ‘sham’ commercial deals with a number of its sponsors during the period, which were part of a disguised funding scheme, whereby those companies were only required to pay a portion of the relevant sponsorship fees. The remainder was funded by Abu Dhabi United Group Investment & Development Ltd (ADUG), which owned the club. As part of the scheme, further ‘sham’ arrangements, funded by ADUG, were entered into to enable the club to record lower operating expenses than it actually incurred, as well as a ‘sham’ circular arrangement with Fordham, an entity that purchased the club’s players’ image rights, that was funded by ADUG.
The purpose of these schemes was found to have been to artificially inflate the club’s revenues, and reduce its costs, by more than £900 million during the affected period, to appear to comply with financial rules. The consequence of this, as the Commission found, was that the club filed misstated accounts and concealed the true state of its finances from its auditors and football regulators. The Commission concluded that ‘by its conduct the club clearly intended to circumvent the PL Rules‘. As a result, Manchester City failed to accurately report its income and expenditure for the purposes of the Premier League’s Profitability and Sustainability Rules and UEFA’s Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Rules. The Commission found that, had all of the relevant agreements been reported accurately in the club’s accounts, it would have been in breach of both the League’s and UEFA’s spending limits by a very substantial amount. In addition, during the course of the four-year investigation conducted by the Premier League, the club committed multiple breaches of its duties of co-operation and utmost good faith towards the League.

The Commission concluded that the club had ‘made concerted efforts to stop and frustrate the PL investigation’. Richard Masters, Chief Executive of the Premier League, said: “The core decision establishes the facts of what happened at Manchester City during this period. It details how the club systematically broke Premier League Rules for nearly a decade. “It also vindicates the Premier League’s decision to pursue this case against Manchester City. While the process to date has been both long and difficult, the League has remained determined that the facts be established independently. “It is a key responsibility of the Premier League to ensure that the Rules, approved by the clubs themselves, are upheld to protect the integrity of the competition. It is paramount that the League remains competitive and fair for all clubs and for the fans. We take that role extremely seriously. “This disciplinary case, and this decision, are the most significant in Premier League history. There are elements of the case that remain to be decided, including, importantly, what sanction must follow for these breaches. Now we have the Commission’s decision, we are committed to moving swiftly through the remainder of the process, to provide certainty for the League, our clubs and fans.” The independent Commission’s findings are set out in a Core Decision, of which a redacted version has been published (click here). The Commission’s award comprises both the Core Decision and a large number of additional appendices, which the League is committed to publishing as soon as it is able. The League is able to publish the Core Decision because the Commission has ruled (and an Appeal Board has confirmed) that the Commission’s decision is a ‘final award’. Now that the charges have been proved, the issue of sanction will be addressed separately in a further hearing with the independent Commission. In accordance with Premier League rules, that hearing will remain private and confidential until such a time as publication of the outcome is permitted.
The club has the right to appeal the independent Commission’s findings and has until Friday 2 October to exercise that right. The Premier League Board’s intention is that the full process (including any appeals and publication of relevant decisions) is concluded as soon as possible.

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City are not a massive club

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These guys have no idea who tf city were before the 2000s

Was Juve throwing matches for a decade? City was at a competitive advantage for 10 EPL seasons. That's 380 matches. It's far worse than Juve.

This is some dreadful shite. I cheered for them because they were fun to watch but the numbers are staggering and ownership clearly never GAF

Go Palace

So what happens to City now?

Announce Haaland to DC United

I'm sure Haaland is brushing up on his Spanish

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MC owners are royalty acting like royalty

rules for thee and not for me

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Muslims just disrupting another country's culture.

City bringing in £600 million more in commercial deals than Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea shows how obvious the cheating was.


Their brand is no where near any of them

Chelsea before Roman were a big club, but were just perennial under achievers.

This is hilarious:

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It wasn't paid by AD, the sponsors just applied for financial assistance in the exact amounts laid out in the emails and AD paid it. Nothing to see here