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.

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.

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

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.

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……

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.

FFP regulation must be considered a success. The evidence suggests that the business model modification it encouraged – player sales and sponsorship income – is responsible for overall improved profitability in European football.

https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/ten-years-of-financial-fair-play-has-it-been-good-for-european-football/#:~:text=The evidence suggests that the,could yet threaten club finances.

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!

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.

That’s how a crooked system works and it’s only now everyone is beginning to realise how crooked they are

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.

Wayne Rooney almost dragged United to a title and UCL final in 09/10 and might have pulled it off if he didn’t do his ankle against Bayern in the UCL QF. He scored 34 goals in 44 games, including 26 in the PL and 5 in just 7 UCL appearances. He was so good that Drogba had by far his best ever season for Chelsea and Rooney still was the overwhelming winner of the PFA Players’ Player of the Year, the FWA POTY and the PL POTY.

This was a United team that lost Cristiano Ronaldo and Carlos Tevez and replaced them with Antonio Valencia, Michael Owen, Gabriel Obertan, Mirame Birame Diouf and fucking BEBE. Ferdinand was out injured for most of the season, Hargreaves missed the entire season and Vidic missed 14 league games. He nearly won a title with a team where Darren fucking Gibson played 15 league games. Just let that sink in.

They have the money and resources to tie the league up in a legal battle that could completely run them into the ground.

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.

If you’re getting upset about the opinions of 13 year olds on Tik Tok it’s a sign you really need to touch some grass.