Man City found guilty of 114 charges

[Shogun]

I'm confused though, in the same way Abramovich was forced to sell Chelsea, surely the UAE representative group will have to sell up?

[April]

Expulsion to non-league has been mentioned. Even then, they’d have to be voted in by any league, and would have to start their journey back the long way, from non league into league two and so on. Reminds me of what Rangers had to do a few years ago.
And that’s just them: the compensation to other clubs, the stripping of titles, its re-writing history and it will be massive.
I’d love to see them do Chelsea next…

[blueToffee]

I'm confused though, in the same way Abramovich was forced to sell Chelsea, surely the UAE representative group will have to sell up?

The new owners then get to declare what they've shockingly found and they pay 10 mil and get a suspended two-window registration ban. I think that's how it works now.

[MayorFarnham]

There's still an element of closing ranks amongst some elements of football about the whole thing. Every single ex-player I've seen in the media has exonerated the City players. Claiming they wouldn't have known what was going on.
If you take just a casual interest in football it's been highly likely that City were spending beyond their natural means for years. Apparently one player was offered a contract from City that was triple what he was offered by Barcelona. Surely that player must have suspected something. I mean how many Steve Kinsey and Kevin Bond shirts did he think sold in Asia every year.

[cassius]

I'm confused though, in the same way Abramovich was forced to sell Chelsea, surely the UAE representative group will have to sell up?

Wasn't it the Government who forced the sale of Chelsea, not the PL?

[Cereal Killer]

Expulsion to non-league has been mentioned. Even then, they’d have to be voted in by any league, and would have to start their journey back the long way, from non league into league two and so on. Reminds me of what Rangers had to do a few years ago.
And that’s just them: the compensation to other clubs, the stripping of titles, its re-writing history and it will be massive.
I’d love to see them do Chelsea next…

The ground work is already being set…

“The Premier League want to act decisively and show that there is a real cost to the actions that Manchester City have undertaken but they also need to protect the integrity of their competition as well.

If they stripped Manchester City of their titles during that period that would look very bad for the Premier League. If they kicked out one of their biggest clubs, that would look very bad on the Premier League.

There is a very fine line that the Premier League will need to tread over the course of the next few months and the next few weeks potentially.”

[Raptor]

The ground work is already being set…

“The Premier League want to act decisively and show that there is a real cost to the actions that Manchester City have undertaken but they also need to protect the integrity of their competition as well.

If they stripped Manchester City of their titles during that period that would look very bad for the Premier League. If they kicked out one of their biggest clubs, that would look very bad on the Premier League.

There is a very fine line that the Premier League will need to tread over the course of the next few months and the next few weeks potentially.”

The Premier League was on as massive upwards trajectory before City. They're probably the 'big' team they could afford to hit hard and to make a point.

Juve were relegated from Serie A for match fixing, Rangers expelled from Scotland, both these teams are much more significant for their relative leagues than City.

They have to hit them hard, if they don't, then it opens up the floodgates for the likes of Newcastle to abuse. The shite, United, Arsenal and Chelsea will be pushing hard to get them gone and to strengthen their stranglehold on the top table, and City will struggle to get back as a lot of their success is artificial based on Pep and their bought success, without that their 'fans' will drop off massively

[777Kidnappings]

I’d say that’s the best case scenario though.

I certainly don’t see a future where they’re competing at the top of the premier league for a long, long time.

That would be fair. They should be looking at being where west ham are now as a best case. Both in terms of now and their future

[Gash]

I wonder how far this will stretch to the other 'City' clubs they own around the world?

[TheRam]

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/foo ... 58512.html

Good article this.

The new regulatory body has the authority to force the owners to sell up.

Fifteen clubs would have to vote to get them out of the premier league.

All very possible I would think.

[Audrey Horne]

I just can't see it!!! It should but ..... I don't know

[Mouse]

If everything you read is true and any appeal is rejected then, given the ridiculous number of transgressions, the fraudulent manipulation of nearly a billion in extra funding and the deliberate attempt to delay and tie the whole process in legal knots, the only fair punishment is something similar to Rangers. Full expulsion from the football league to a place it will take at least 5 seasons to return to the Prem, plus a transfer embargo. I’d like to them sent to the bottom of the pyramid.

In reality, I expect a hefty fine and a single relegation with a possible one year transfer ban, nowhere near enough.

[Bluedylan1]

They're fucked beyond belief. I would be surprised if they ever really recover from this in any meaningful sense.

They're forever the cheats in the eyes of all other fans, for generations to come. Players will jump ship immediately. The punishment will have to be draconian. Depending on how severe their punishment is, there's even a risk that they could go bust and have to reform at the bottom of the pyramid under a different name, with the amount of compensation they'll have to pay.

The Premier League started this whole investigation and case in 2018. There's no way they've spent 8 years (and whatever is to come) conducting a case against a state owned club and all their lawyers, with repercussions that even impact geopolitical relationships between nations, to find them guilty of all charges apart from one, and then give them a little slap on the wrist.

[TheRam]

They’re done.

People are so obsessed with the whole big six cartel stuff that they can’t see what’s actually happened here.

There’s never been anything like this in the game before.

The 35 charges of failing to comply alone are enough for a severe punishment, never mind the Billion pound fraud going on.

They won’t recover from this. They’ll always been remembered for cheating. They might have had some great moments and great days out but they’ll all be tainted and their fans know it.

I couldn’t be happier. I could never respect them as a club for how to achieved their success, even without the charges.

Their buy out was the worst thing to ever happen to the game in this country and I can’t wait to see it all crash and burn.

I feel for the fans though. They have no say in who owns the club and what they do. They went along for the ride like we all would and now they have to sit there wondering what their existence is going to be.

As always, it’ll be the fans who are really punished.

[TheRam]

Going to be some Footy manager save though.

I had immense fun back in the day building juventus back up.