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A-HA! We didn't cheat in the way you think we did.

Thing is with the 14/20 rule the lesser clubs can vote for something more in their favour (especially as some know they’ll be going back to the Championship). I guess they prefer to have the financial advantage of a parachute payment than a more even distribution across the Leagues.

Not quite what he said

the majority of money generated by the PL collectively is shared evenly. There are then payments within that based upon performance/success and, of course, clubs generate their own money through their gate receipts and commercial sponsorship it's a hard circle to square to, for instance, say to Liverpool FC - give up a % of your shirt sales contract to a Hull City. Perhaps, like in the FA Cup, a set % of gate receipts should go to away teams (one wonders whether the £30 price cap would hold if that happened). Or perhaps more pertinently on the current circumstances - would you ever trust a Man City to share their money with 19 other clubs? and voted for the introduction of FFP in 2013 fact is they've f***ed themselves royally through mismanagement - but it's better to blame the Red Cartel than look at themselves

no yep - cf. LIV GOlf

whilst that's true in terms of clubs raising their own revenue i think it more likely would be Saudi owned Newcastle would have more money than either of us and we'd have a one team league

whoever was asking before about Mancini's double contract and tax... https://x.com/DanNeidle/status/2105561141170565290?s=20 https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/10/01/manchester-city-unpaid-tax/

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That was such an obvious red card It was a DOGSO - rather than violent, right?

I wonder if we’ll smash their bus up again

Jonathan Liew on SSN right now - Etihad/ManCity - owned by the same people. All connected. They’re not suing anyone. Their actions shout GUILTY

Desperate actions from a bully

c**** of a feather https://x.com/robharris/status/2105378360155369761?s=46&t=S0LBdQiaWZdWT39o5mhR6Q Don’t see any grounds for Etihad suing the PL btw Screams of sabre-rattling for their mates. And, for me, adds grist to the ‘kick these scumbags our of our league’ mill

You can take the bloke out of Everton… We’ve known all that for some time though. Changes nothing.

well, there's the appeal, then the sanctions, then the appeal against the sanctions - was always likely to run into this season though it does seem odd that City were given the Judgment 2/3 months ago 4/1 on Paddy Power for City to be stripped of at least one title

yep, infrastructure all there, decent size fan base, Netflix series waiting to happen

hopefully stories about further corruption Journos/Newspaper editors have been sitting on over the past 10+yrs will come out now with City's legal threats bcoming more hollow after all this

Just send an extra team up/down for one season?

And why the cheating doesn’t have a cut-off line in 2018 they need every trophy they’ve won , since the Abu Dhabi Dicks took over, taken off them.

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Yep the hacker guy who blew this open should be knighted

What’s infuriating about all this is we f***ing KNEW it was all a sham at the time. How possibly could a little, s***, won nothing pile of bolllocks that City were possibly be generating commercial income beyond the likes of us/Utd without cheating? Cant see how crimes have not been committed by the Directors but they are mates with the UK Government so - one of them

i am wondering now i've written that whether the new PSR rules coming in means that will be taken care of by it not being a 3yr rolling timeline like before

the other thing that needs factoring in with their punishment - if there is an exodus of players - they shouldn't be able to use that cash generated to spend like monsters over the coming years to bounceback up the league(s)