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Man City - 115 Charges

KathyBatesHammer said:
I almost dont want that. Would mean we would get the League Cup, but then i was there, we didnt win, we didnt get to celebrate a win. I couldnt celebrate being awarded the trophy, 10+ years later.
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I get where you’re coming from and agree with you in the main, having also been there.
But it wouldn’t half be bloody funny.
 

It'll probably be a sizeable fine which won't bother them, and points deduction that will effect them winning league but not put them down and some form of transfer ban and they'll keep fighting it and it will drag on further
 
If we were awarded the league cup id be overjoyed and I’d celebrate it. Do you think the likes of Liverpool and Arsenal won’t be celebrating if they get handed league titles ? If they are found guilty it means they’ve financially cheated to win these competitions and the runners up have been cheated out of potential trophies.
 
LiverBird said:
You're thinking short term man. if City get away this opens it up to Newcastle and any other state owned club to do exactly what they want ...
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City getting away with it screws football, regardless of the mags.

If they get a soft touch, I'm done with the professional game. Because it's not a sport at that point.

Hit city hard, set a precedent.

It won't happen, but it should
 
I doubt they’d start dishing out titles to other clubs but I would like some sort of compensation for loss of earnings because we would have got into Europe for winning the league cup and who knows where that would have lead us or what type of players we could have signed.
 
FTM73 said:
Just been reading and article about the Man City 115 charges case & the fact that the odds of them being relegated have fallen from 16-1 to 12-1 seems to indicate that an announcement will happen soon.

Putting aside us getting retroactively awarded the 2014 League Cup & it taking the shine off those lot up the road, surely this means that it's more important than ever that we go up this season? I'm assuming that City would come down in a 3 with Southampton & probably Leicester and that they'd be promoted again next season, leaving up to half a dozen teams vying for the other automatic space, nevermind the play offs.

Would they also have a points deduction next season too, just like Sheffield United, as anything else would surely just be unfair on those already in the Championship, making promotion next year much harder?

Maybe having 3 + Man City come down and 4 go up this season would be fairer (as long as we're one of the 4).
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This is breaking news. They know their fines. Explains why they not really bothering this season.

1 years ban from European football. 10 points deduction maximum. They just making sure they finish 8th after the deduction so the European ban doesn't technically bother me. Very clever.

We all have known since since October?
 
the sleeping giant said:
The FA need to ‘look tough’ & City need to know there’s little or no impact on their long-term aspirations.

So expect to see some kind of contrived, ‘no losers’ outcome whereby City spend the millions they’d set aside for a prolonged legal battle on grassroots football (dressed up as a severe financial sanction) - and a points deduction that has no tangible impact on them in real terms (they might quite fancy a season in the Europa league while they’re redeveloping the team).

The FA will make out it’s the biggest sanction taken in footy history, City will deny any wrongdoing & the whole thing will rumble on while the likes of Chelsea & Saudi FC analyse the small print to see what they can now get away with, too.

Cynical? Yeh, too right. I’d like to see them smashed into oblivion & others the same (like Saudi FC) but our pathetic little appeasers in the FA really aren’t capable of doing that.
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Does the FA actually have anything to do with this? Though it was Premier League who are going after Man City.
 
Well, it depends on if you believe that a Football club can be run at slight profit/loss every season.
Mean-time in the real world. UK is being 'soft' invaded.
 
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LRW said:
They'll get a non punishment which is dressed up as a punishment. Like a 30 point penalty, implemented this season, which means that instead of finishing 6th and qualifying for the Conference League, they finish 17th. Affecting absolutely nothing.
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