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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.