honourablegeorge

needs to get his booking nice and early, settle him down

3/4 seasons of inconvenience? The bidding starts at 9.

Always think the worst when one of these threads is bumped

Some chatter that the sanctions to be announced tomorrow.

Their irrefutable evidence is that the government - not ADUG who are chaired and owned by the same people who are the government- gave the extra money.to the sponsors. It was presented, and was refuted as lies by the independent commission. And was also refuted on the record in court in tbe US by Etihad who denied receiving government money.

Stillness of a dodgy deal than £75M for Savinho

It's a rare telegraph article that makes actual sense and isn't wholly agenda driven

92% fraudulent sponsorship in 2018 Then Covid hit and their commercial revenue went up. I somehow doubt the airline sector suddenly became flush enough to start paying the sponsorship in full at that point

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/10/01/curious-sponsorships-raise-question-man-city-stop-2018/

JJ Gabriel not his real name, they chose to rebrand him for marketing purposes. No, seriously.

Stats don't tell you about faces. I hate his face.

Needs to be something like that, there's a decade of cheating and a decade of benefiting from it. 40 points per PL season for every season they cheated. Titles stripped and prize money fined for those seasons they cheated.

The comments were before the verdict was.published.

Might be enough if it was a criminal case, reasonable doubt as to where the funds came from, but the burden of proof is lower here, right?

Have you ever seen him wearing glasses?

They'd be applying to enter league 2 if expelled up to the EFL to decide if they let them in besides, the expulsion would mean an extra team comes up from each division below

We had a 97 point season. No other team has ever legitimately exceeded 95

Maybe an invitation for them to reopen their investigations into additional seasons

Points deduction of 40 for their next five seasons in the PL, if they get relegated and come back the relegates season doesn't count Their nextt 850M in PL prize money to be withheld and distributed to other clubs Sponsorship deals with any and all parties involved to be terminated Lifetime bans for directors/chairmen involved Titles stripped

Quite a few journos now citing expulsion as the only viable option. Think that's fair, these owners can't be trusted The sums they were faking were trending up, not down - they cheated more every year. No reason to think they stopped. and nothing from them but the continued lies about irrefutable evidence that they've had for eight years but not presented because it went to a different school and you wouldn't know it anyway

92% of their sponsorship money was bent in 2018 - £134M No way they suddenly stopped there.

Sky in general.

UEFA already found them guilty. Only reason they got off was timing, UEFA had evidence of them making payments, but the payments happened just outside the time period of the investigation. A shaky technicality they like to frame as them being proved innocent

Their "record" stadium/shirt deals combined with all their other sponsors were bringing in only £11m total in 2018. "Far ahead" is an understatement.