26/27 football thread

[SuperBacon]

Premier League statement.

https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727779/premier-league-statement-manchester-city-fc/

Love the word sham.

[hallicks]

40 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

Premier League statement.

https://www.premierleague.com/en/news/4727779/premier-league-statement-manchester-city-fc/

Love the word sham.

£900m worth of ‘sham’ accounting.

[thevestofdeanambrose]

Fantastic use of the word sham. Rob Harris really hammering it home here too hahaha

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/KI5xhVeUvI

That is a strong statement from the Premier League. Anybody who thinks they are getting away with a fine. This says completely different. They are going to get royally fucked. 900 million is crazy!

Edited yesterday at 05:15 PM by thevestofdeanambrose

[The Gaffer]

Political - sure - and that would matter far more, but I genuinely don't know if a bigger cultural schadenfreude is possible in my lifetime. 

It's just so good. Like get fucked. 

[Devon Malcolm]

The Premier League murders them in that statement. Like, fucking hell. There really is a good chance they could be fucked. I love they timed this for the international break, too, so we actually have something to keep us entertained.

This is great, this is all great.

[IANdrewDiceClay]

Makes you hate football. How they have been allowed to get away with it, despite doing it in plain sight is fucked.  This mob need to be ran out of town by every other club.

[SuperBacon]

Oh come on guys, who here hasn't inflated their importance and value to the tune of 900m quid? Could happen to anyone!

[Mr_Danger]

Given the statement and the fact City decided to just ride it out and fight it for as long as they could there’s no way the Premier League fanny out of this. Financial doping is one thing, even at this massive scale but just flat out denying it and then not cooperating and insisting you’ve done nothing wrong at all is really fucking stupid. Surely the plan was to do all this cheating and when they get caught just take the punishment knowing that you’re set up for years to come. They might have gotten away with a massive fine and points deduction if they had copped to it and cooperated but the EPL is left with no choice now.  It’s glorious. Bring on the asterisks.

[tiger_rick]

2 hours ago, IANdrewDiceClay said:

Makes you hate football. How they have been allowed to get away with it, despite doing it in plain sight is fucked.  This mob need to be ran out of town by every other club.

Poch has gone in on them and the PL for this today, saying "Where were the controls?"

I love "no fucks given" Poch. He went for Chelsea recently too. And was right to.

 

[SuperBacon]

8 minutes ago, tiger_rick said:

He went for Chelsea recently too. And was right to.

Did he? What did he say?

[tiger_rick]

27 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

Did he? What did he say?

That they should be stripped of the 16/17 PL Title.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c783ndd7ge2o

[Arch Stanton]

That Premier League statement is so strong and yet I'm still not at all convinced that they will end up with a punishment. I will believe it when I see it, but I can totally see an outcome whereby underhanded political pressures influence an appeal process. Abu Dhabi have used their power and influence in this way in the past.

Edited 20 hours ago by Arch Stanton

[SuperBacon]

47 minutes ago, tiger_rick said:

That they should be stripped of the 16/17 PL Title.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c783ndd7ge2o

Oh that. Poch is such a loser, he really should be Spurs manager forever. Him and us are the perfect fit.

[CleetusVanDamme]

Asking for titles to be stripped because of undisclosed payments to agents, then wanting them to be handed to a side that was managed by Harry Redknapp in the same time-frame is absolutely classic.

[IANdrewDiceClay]

If Poch was in charge of the FA:

 

"congratulations on Harry Kane for his 14th Premier League title, despite not playing in 14 Premier League seasons.."