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Manchester City's Sham Trial
- Thread starter GoldenToffee
- Start date
KaiserEFC
Player Valuation: £70m
The league and everybody else already know the outcome. I suspect the PL are trying to work out a plan to deal with the fallout from City getting away with ruining the sport
chrismpw
Player Valuation: £70m
Careful now! It is Sky that have ruined the sport, by injecting endless cash, bringing in mercenaries and bigging it up overseas until wealthy foreign owners buy clubs as playthings and trinkets.
Man C may be the worst of these excesses, but don't detract that the buck stops at Sky.
At least City have stopped the rs adding to their haul, so I can't hate them for that.
KaiserEFC
Player Valuation: £70m
They’re all one and the same mate, they’re all a cartel destroying competition and by association the sport
Jamo Martinez
Player Valuation: £70m
This. Man City aren't the problem, they're a symptom.
johnjoeefc
Player Valuation: £20m
I did think this myself. However I've changed my mind as City getting relegated means one less space gets relegation which would be massive for us this season.
johnjoeefc
Player Valuation: £20m
I expect one of two things to happen...
1. City get away with it, further angering our fans given the deductions we got.
2. City get severely punished and loads of their titles and trophies handed to the RS (and Man United and Arsenal - 2 of the other PL favourites)
It will be another loss for the Everton fanbase either way
One positive is that at least if City lose titles we will go back to having the 4th most title wins in the country.
GoldenToffee
Player Valuation: £60m
All the Premier League needs to do is ban them from the competition for 10 years. It's not the league's responsibility to find a solution as to what happens to them if they're kicked out.
I assume super league discussion would immediately fire up again if they were expelled however we all know City are getting away with this.
Basically anything other than a prolonged suspension from the league is getting away with it as they've gone from a nothing club to a club set up for future generations of success due to cheating, and any team would trade that for a year or two suspended from the division before they can continue to dominate.
One thing is for sure, no titles are being handed over to the teams that finished second behind them.
I assume super league discussion would immediately fire up again if they were expelled however we all know City are getting away with this.
Basically anything other than a prolonged suspension from the league is getting away with it as they've gone from a nothing club to a club set up for future generations of success due to cheating, and any team would trade that for a year or two suspended from the division before they can continue to dominate.
One thing is for sure, no titles are being handed over to the teams that finished second behind them.
johnjoeefc
Player Valuation: £20m
How are you so sure that titles won't go to teams who finished 2nd? If they are stripped of the titles then presumably they have to go somewhere? Inter were awarded the title when juventus were relegated all them years ago
Tipp blue
If I agreed with you, we’d both be wrong.
Super league.. something I was against, but I've come around to it, let City Spurs Arsemal Liverpool Chelsea and United all go, punt them out of the PL, let them play away every second week and the cost that will get added to fans wanting to follow them... it will get very boring very quickly especially when Real and Barcelona start mopping up all the best talent when they get on equal financial footing... bring on the superleage.
hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
Nope. There will be an asterisk showing no winner. Otherwise you're leaving yourself liable to being sued as you should recalculate all of the results and you may find teams were relegated that shouldn't have been.
JimmyJeffers
Player Valuation: £70m
Majority of people in other countries would only watch everton if they were plying a big team. People look a bit confused when they ask who I support.
I was in a bar in Cambodia with about 7-8 teles, that was showing every 3pm kick off apart from everton vs Norwich.
Was a bit embarrassed to ask them to put it on.Has it not entered your head that City might actually be innocent?
Exactly. We wouldn't have the likes of foreign owners lusting to own and/or invest if the whole 'PL brand' hadn't been created and grown over the last three decades.
It doesn't happen in Germany because the football authorities haven't allowed it, whereas here it's the money men who talk and control the game.
The Premier League are the clubs in it, nothing happens without an overwhelming majority agreeing to it.
Nobody in the cartel want it, things like transparency, accountability and looking to play within the spirit of competition are anathema to these organisations.