Manchester City is rent free in my brain💙👕I like data and sometimes like to make infographics

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BlueCityBrain retweeted
Was Martinez right to have a pop at the suits at Old Trafford last night? Since the arrival of INEOS we now have a club that: ⚽️Rinses the fans for more money ⚽️Reduced average first team weekly wage by £50k ⚽️Sacked the tea ladies ⚽️Made a loss every year ⚽️Spent over £1bn on players ⚽️Increased the club debts
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The media reaction and other fan reactions are a bit bewildering. What do you want the current players and manager to do? Lie dead until the sanctions/appeal hit? I’ve seen people calling out player celebrations after scoring goals. Do people realize how crazy that sounds! It’s still football and 11 v 11. People are making it out like City are being allowed to play while their players are using performance-enhanced drugs. The whole process has not played out yet. As for fans what do you want them to do as well? They’re still going to go to games and support the club and players - none of this is in our control.
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This helped my own understanding and deal with this "what if" scenario where City ARE relegated and receive a large fine. Ive seen many posts saying we'd lose our entire squad etc but this is an actual breakdown of the numbers, the EFL rules and the PL rules if City were to come right back up following an end of season relegation. Personally I believe most of it will come down to "Which players will want to stay" - rather than "Could we afford to keep this player" as the simulator below shows City could keep most of the first team as long as they come straight back up following a relegation. There will be a lot of players who simply will not want to do a season in the championship. Their will be a few years of complications with UEFAs rules if we do go into Europe in say ~2030 due to their own sustainability rules. This doenst factor in punishments such as transfer ban, or multi year punishments or expulsion. All 3 scenarios would cause a whole set of different issues that are much harder to model. But the most spoke about potential sanction is a large enough point deduction this season to send City down this helps understand the situation.
If City went down what would it mean from a squad perspective? Could they keep their current squad? Would they comply with the new EFL rules? Could they keep their entire team as is? Could City loan out Haaland for a season and keep him? Another deep dive analysis helping us understand this potential scenario from the numbers side. valuball.co/blogs/man-city-r…
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Many of the numbers and assumptions in this article are incorrect
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This is not true. City will have to significantly reduce their wage bill, amortization and transfer debt to be able to stick to the rules of the EFL. Ownership is capped at £16m as well. A relegation is not extinction but it is a disaster and will significantly change the team . The entire team and operational side is built to compete at the top and play in Europe. The model simply doesn’t work in the championship. Relegation will see big redundancies for the operating staff and change of players and player staff to be “sustainable”
🚨 Luckily for Manchester city, they are prepaid for the worst. They already knew the premier charges were coming. They made sure they renewed their players contracts + sold off players with short and middle term contracts + locked down Haaland with a 10 years contract. They did this in a way that even though they got a 3-4 year transfer ban, they can still hold onto their players.
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That also completely ignores the player side of it many won’t want to play out of Europe let alone out of the premier league for a season at all. Many will ask to leave.
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Ever seen in England? I wouldn’t call it that both United in the 90s, 00s and Liverpool in the 70s and 80s were more dominant. Liverpool won 11 titles in 18 years and United won 13 in 21 years. Both over 60%
This view that City made the league more competitive is… the opposite of the truth. It’s the most dominant spell ever seen in England: - 100 and 98 points - two trebles - four in a row None of these things had ever been done before
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1.4m views, 28k likes. Come on man what we doing here.
But why is only Manchester City getting charged for the Haaland transfer when Dortmund also agreed to hide the transfer fee
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Manchester City has not been charged over the Haaland transfer. The Premier League findings cover breaches from 2009/10–2017/18; Dortmund's audited accounts list €97m gross transfer proceeds that summer across all sales, with no evidence of a hidden higher fee. premierleague.com/en/news/4727779 lentedesportiva.com/erling-haaland… report.bvb.de/annual-report/… bbc.com/sport/football…
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BlueCityBrain retweeted
It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good. As promised I’ve given the appearance fees* (and a top up from my PoF account) for talking Manchester City x 114 to @samaritans. Men in particular are hopeless at looking after what’s going on in their heads. In the words of The Rifles song “and I smile when you’re there and I cry when I’m all alone”. Samaritans are there for you in those moments. *Most don’t pay anything BTW.
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This man has put a smile on my face for 10+ years and can continue to with a simple tweet.
I want every single @ManCity fan to know I am here; more than ever. I am, always have been, always will, be behind my club, my owner, my chairman, Ferran, the players, staff, Enzo and you, our unique supporters. Let me be clear: we will get through this together. I love you all 🩵
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BlueCityBrain retweeted
Man City's 115 charges: the financial stakes after the verdict A long form blog valuball.co/blogs/man-city-1…
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Not my own below but a good look at what commission found to be a sham commercial revenue wise.
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It is what it is. Heads need to roll at the board level.
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BlueCityBrain retweeted
We’ve updated app to version 1.20 which now loads premier league fixtures and allows you to compare clubs both on fixtures and any club across our database Allowing you to compare nearly all metrics across 2 teams in a fast manner.
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Man city paid £408m in wages according to their accounts in 24/25. According to UEFA it’s even higher (due to CFG) and it’s closer to £450m The UEFA calculation has City player wages at 73% roughly of their total wages. So say 73% of £408m is £300m (in 24/25 mind you… I expect it to be higher in 26/27). Basic calculations has the AVERAGE first team player on £220k a week if you remove the cost of the club component (15%) it’s still 190k a week that an average first team player at man city takes home (base + wages). People need to realise how much our players get paid…it’s a lot.
The wages are even crazier on there. It claims Ruben Dias and Elliot Anderson are both on £300k per week, Kovacic is on £205k and Rico Lewis is on £125k…
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BlueCityBrain retweeted
We’ve shown we can play out tight games and go goal for goal in shootouts. A team that has different ways to win is a dangerous team.
At least we know we can go bang for bang in a shootout for goals
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