Man City: Der Spiegel alleges three-year Premier League investigation - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61017887 Anyone think anything will actually happen?
No... City will get away with it. Personally, I think they should be deducted 11pts for this and every season dating back to 18/19. And new winners be assigned if need be.
Depends how much truth is in it I suppose and what can be proved. Chelsea have had transfer bans for breaking the rules regarding young players so the precedent is there. I'm a bit wary of Der Spiegel as a source though. Think it was them who mix and matched emails to make them say something completely inaccurate on the previous case? The German Sun.
There's no smoke without fire regards City. It's hardly even disguised, other than by bullshit. It's been fairly clear they have invented sponsors, for instance, since the oil emirate of Abu Dhabi bankrolled them. It's been 'investigated' before, (in a half arsed nothing to seen here, honest, kind of way) and **** all is done, so I agree that nothing will this time either. I just wonder sometimes why some clubs are under scrutiny and others aren't.
They've got away with it before. They'll get away with it this time. They will get away with it in the future. UEFA doesn't have the balls to punish City. A miracle Chelsea got a slap on the wrist.
Yeah it wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. If the young players stuff is proven then I think they'll defo get a punishment for it and rightly so. I'm not arsed about the owner pumping money in. The rules are nonsense in my view so good luck to them in that regard. Interesting this came out the same day that UEFA announced their new financial regulations.
Well before anyone accuses me of #crying (I'm not) it fair enough to say the rules are nonsense, but there's no point having them if they are just ignored when certain clubs (with lots of ****ing cash) can circumnavigate them anyway. Correct, don't pretend to make rules in the first place. Otherwise, stand by them.
I'm with you both there. I think the rules encourage loop holes. Better to do away with them and everyone be on a level playing field rather than encouraging people to "fudge the numbers".
It'd be far better just to make owners personally guarantee anything that was spent beyond income on a contract by contract basis. That's if the rules purpose were actually about financial health of course, which they're not.
