Manchester City*

Whatever the case, a relegation would be really, really bad for them. None of their players will want to stay. Pep will certainly fuck off.
i believe they’ve got the highest wage bill in the world. Their books will be fucked.

I’d honestly take a relegation without any other punishment.
It’ll set them back several years.

Its the premier league that is accusing Man city, and it wont be the premier league deciding the out come of the case either…

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Yeah, handing them a Juventus style relegation would be top drawer. See how quick their star players f off unlike Juve guys like Buffon, Nedved, Trezeguet et al. Plastic club.

Imagine City trying to pull a Barca asking Foden to lower his wages and stay with them in the Championship. :rofl:

Lad will tell them to fuck off.

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Haaland will be in Spain before the judge has finished declaring his verdict.

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A fine is useless and so is a points deduction or relegation because after a season they’ll get promoted.

Before they got taken over, Man City were scrabbling around mid table and all their success was bought with laundered money. so the most appropriate punishment would be a several season transfer ban.

Didn’t inter get the 2006 series A title (and 2005 possibly)

Due to Calciopoli?

Personally I’d be happy with every title since 2018 being stripped

Richly deserved.

United get 2, we get 2, Liverpool get 2.

The biggest clubs in England and the real might behind the PL.

Not some plastic doped up PR exercise for the UAE.

That would be keeping integrity in the sport.

This isnt.

I don’t want the titles stripped as then we have two title wins we didn’t get to enjoy in the moment so whats the point?

Integrity

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If it were to ever happen I’d organise an OA piss up to ensure we retrospectively had the bender of all benders to mark the league victories :beers:

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Personally I’d rather they were left blank with asterisks saying why

FIFY

They could just vacate the title. I think the NCAA did that for some college basketball scandals, although it were the wins that were vacated not the actual titles.

Point deductions are great and I hope they eat a bunch of them, but the real punishment imo would be some type of squad restriction. The charges stem from using their additional wealth to pay players and even a coach beyond what was reported, so the only way to really punish them imo is to restrict the amount of players they can register.

Genuine thought, I wonder what happens in a situation like this where a club is stripped of titles where they’ve already received prize money for their final league position. Wonder if that’s redistributed tonthe clubs awards the titles in said teams place?

In that (unlikely) scenario, I think they could deduct those winnings from what they should be getting next season. Each PL club gets something like £150m or something right? Distribute what they should be paid next season to the 2nd placed teams over the past x years.

Don’t know what that does to all the rest of the teams. Technically everybody gets bumped up a spot, and every one of them needs to be paid more.

Gets way too complicated.

Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking too…

City are just too big and a severe punishment would hurt the image of the league way too much.
At least that’s the way “they” are thinking I assume.

In reallity it would make the league more healthy, competitive, it would help it it the long run.

I still hold a tiny bit of hope a big punishment is possible but I’m not expecting one and would be quite surprised if that happens.

If there was a transfer ban for several seasons it would probably mean that Guardiola would leave which might be better for the rest of the PL clubs than a fine or points deduction, which wouldn’t be enough.

Breakdown of City’s 115 charges:

54 of the breaches relate to City failing to report accurate financial information,
35 for failing to cooperate with the Premier League’s authorities,
14 for failing to provide accurate information on player and manager payments,
7 for breaches to the Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR) and
5 relating to breaching UEFA’s FFP rules.

Corrupt FC.

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Relegation to League One is only option

That list should also include going from being a mid table team with average support to being the biggest spenders in Europe.

They should be asked how that happened.