I don’t think it is realistic, but if they had to go to the Championship, do you think there will be players who want to stay and get up again, or they just look for an other Club? Which club would even be a possibility for the biggest city stars?
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You’ve got look at this from the leagues POV and ask the question. Can the league really battle it out with Man City in a court over this?
Even if City are guilty of every single charge. They have the money and resources to tie the league up in a legal battle that could completely run them into the ground.
The league won’t want that so they’ll either drop the charges or someone somewhere will accept a brown envelope to drop the case or they’ll negotiate some horse shit penalty than city won’t feel and the league won’t lose face on the matter.
At the end of the 2022 the EPL had £850 million in cash left over in its bank account. It can’t be run into the ground in legal fees. The highest legal fees ever paid in history were $500 million, and even then, the PLs case is being run by its own in house lawyers who would not cost near this much. It’s ridiculous to say the PL could be run into the ground with legal fees.
My point is that the premier league won’t want to spend a penny over what they have to in order to get this case closed.
They certainly won’t want to go head to head with city over it because if there’s a single fault with just one of these charges then it questions the integrity of the rest of them and they’ll get tied in knots and made to look foolish.
And let’s be honest while we’re at it. “Financial fair play” wasn’t even a thing until the mid 00’s until the likes and Real, United, AC Milan lobbied fifa in an attempt to keep their monopoly of world football……
Imagine buying a business with the intent to invest in it and make it thrive for the community it sits in. Only to get told you can’t because it risks impacting your competitors bottom line who operate in the same sector. That’s not how capitalism works!
That’s how a crooked system works and it’s only now everyone is beginning to realise how crooked they are when they can’t even enforce the bent policies they put in place to protect the likes of Man United 😂😂😂
Yeah that’s why they spent a whole 4 years just on the investigation. They have no real interest in it. Just 4 solid years of investigating.
That’s not how the justice system works. Look it’s obvious you’ve no idea about legal matters so let’s not pretend like you do. If City can disprove one charge but the other 114 stick, then yeah, they’re fucked. That one charge could be completely unrelated and have nothing to do with the others. They still proved they were guilty on 114 of them. No one is going to care about that one disproved one.
FFP was brought in in 2011, not the mid 2000s and it was to stop clubs going broke and out of existence, which was starting to happen pretty regularly. And according to studies it’s been incredibly successful in that regard.
Soccer isn’t capitalism. It’s a competitive sport. Allowing nation states to buy clubs and just buy success with resources no one else can match is way worse for competition than ensuring clubs can’t make more than £15m in losses every year, which is all FFP is.
It’s not a crooked system when the rules are the exact same for everyone is it? That’s actually a very fair system. If it’s so unfair and no one can grow, how are Spurs now one of the wealthiest clubs in the world? How are Aston Villa? Sustainable growth is way less crooked than a sportswashing project buying success.