Osvaldorama

David Brent with zero charisma or good ideas and no mandate. Leading the country further into decline based on delusional thinking and lack of economic understanding. But apart from that he’s alright, I guess

Yeah, it’s only a billion pounds of fraud and cheating, who cares?

You may dislike FFP, as do I, but those are the rules. Every other club signed up to them and followed them, stupid though they are. The fact city had free rein to spend what they like has distorted football. They have damaged football massively. This is much worse than what Pompey did because it was £900million pounds, systemic and went on for ages. Not sure what planet people are on. In my eyes it’s the equivalent of Lance Armstrong’s doping scandal. They performed at a level way higher than they should have been able to. Actually it’s probably worse, because they also weakened the opponents around them by buying their players, which they shouldn’t have been able to buy.

Never ceases to amaze me how you can be so wrong on every single topic

The crime is that the sponsors are all fake. The “sponsors” are actually just the owners injecting money into the club, through fake sponsors. Fake websites, fake staff, fake everything. lol

They stole star players from across the premier league and the world. They stole youth players. They stole trophies, dreams and memories from every other club. It’s absurd they got away with it for so long.

Their owners must be made to sell the club, at a minimum imo. Irreversible damage to the reputation of the PL. And the money side of the game has always been off putting anyway

We are past just a points deduction and fine, I think. Even if the PL do something as weak and pathetic as that (which I doubt, because they have to preserve the league somehow.. the eyes of the world are watching), every other club will sue city into oblivion. The precedent there is already set by Burnley & Everton. We are in uncharted waters here.

Nowhere near severe enough for me. They’ve changed football for the worse for more than a decade

They have to go hard here imo. The world is watching. The president of La Liga just said he hopes they push for the most severe punishment available as it has impacted the whole of Europe and the world

No chance.. I don’t think they can get out of this one. The report is absolutely damning. Literally calls them “dishonest” Apparently there are more breaches after this too, city just haven’t been forthcoming with the investigation. They’ll likely be charged all the way up to this season.

I wonder if any players should be punished too? Eg if haaland had his wages inflated, him and his agent are guilty of fraud too. Surely they should be banned/punished as well?

From what I’ve read, there are significant differences between the previous cases and here. They got out before on some technicalities, but they were guilty then and bang to rights here. Im still struggling to think of an appropriate punishment. Honestly if they get wound up and have to start again, I don’t think that’s too far. The scale of it is mad.

There’s no punishment big enough. I checked with AI and a rough estimate of Southampton’s entire transfer spending is £850-950million. So although that’s a really rough ballpark figure, the magnitude of the crime is just insane.

£900million of fraud!!!!! More than most clubs have spent on transfers in their history This is soooo bad. Literally ruined football for like a decade. Holy shit.