There definitely won’t be. Admitting you’ve doped yourself into relevance is a bitter pill to swallow. They will deny, deflect, decry until they have worn out their plastic voices.
Pretty much every “normally” owned / run club should be against City. It’s one less team to compete against. Shoot them down ffs
I checked out their subreddit because I was curious.
It was a mixture of copium memes being like “they fucked with the wrong club!” or bigging up their legal team and rationalizing posts like “we’re the victim! It’s actually Arsenal or United who are making things up about City because they’re jealous/sad”
Think it’s largely going to be the same reasons the UK government intervened to give the Saudi deal the all clear with Newcastle.
UK government want good relations with governments they can strike favourable trade deals with. It’s sad and corrupt that the government would get involved in matters relating to football
The timing of this case by city smacks of desperation. To my uneducated mind their argument boils down to ‘the premier league stopped us from making more money’. And I will add ‘so that’s the reason we may have infringed on any rules (if it’s proven so).’
Fair enough that city voted against whatever APT regulation at the time, but every club had to abide by them too!
I would feel sorry for the players, some of the staff that have been sucked in to a soulless, tyrannical, seedy, disrespectful situation, but I hope more and more that the league’s case against city is proven true.