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Hackney Gooner retweeted
Arsenal, boiling piss since 1886. And it’s fucking glorious
Long may it continue
Hackney Gooner retweeted
Amused by the cognitive dissonance of all the league 2 hard men saying 'that's just a proper tackle. Game's gone if that's not allowed', whilst simultaneously clutching their pearls and smelling salts over Dowman's, pretty tame, reaction
Hackney Gooner retweeted
They weren't found guilty of "trying to match spending" you were convicted of system-wide industrial corporate fraud that has irreversibly damaged English football.
City used fraudulent quantitative easing to inject close to £1B of disguised state cash into the system. That artificial monopoly money is exactly what triggered the hyper-inflation of player wages and transfer fees across the entire pyramid.
Football clubs, just like banks, car manufacturers, airlines, and utilities operate under strict regulatory limits. Every major multinational is restricted by how much external capital can be dumped into them by super-billionaires and hostile nation-states to protect market competition.
Dressing up systematic sports fraud as a "Robin Hood story" is absolutely laughable. Stop parroting these desperate lies to protect a multi-billion-pound scam. What you did to the game is vile.
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Kyle Walker on #ManCity’s situation: “It's the big elephant in the room we're probably all going to be asked when doing interviews or whatever.
“It doesn't look great. Let's not hide from the fact they've been found guilty but they're going through an appeal. As a player all I can say is all we did is go out and play our best as a team and I'll defend the players for the rest of my life, because I feel what we did and achieved in that time was incredible and probably won't be done ever again.
“But from the outside looking in, it doesn't look great and we have to address that…” [via @talkSPORT]
Hackney Gooner retweeted
Games like tonight prove the point that dull Arsenal games in the PL are entirely down to opposition strategy. No shade. But let’s be honest about it.
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City fans being brainwashed cucks or are too stupid to understand the difference between everyone not caring about their 'achievements' & having no respect for them, but caring about how they happened. People despise that they are cheats & will just forget them once they're gone.
Hackney Gooner retweeted
BECAUSE YOUR REVENUE WAS £87m in 2009 AND YOU HAD BEEN RELEGATED LESS THAN 10 YEARS PRIOR, YOU COULDNT SELL OUT YOUR STADIUM YOU HAD NO PL WINS NO CUP WINS AND YOU WERE TELLING PEOPLE YOU EARNT AS MUCH AS REAL MADRID AND SHIRT SPONSORS 4x THE VALUE OF MAN UNITED AND LIVERPOOL AND ARSENAL YOU DUMMY!
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Hackney Gooner retweeted
On Wednesday, just hours after the verdict officially confirming Manchester City’s guilt, the Commission responsible for Portugal's witness protection programme informed me of its decision to terminate my participation in the programme and withdraw my police protection, thereby knowingly placing me in a life-threatening situation.
Given these circumstances, I have no alternative but to relocate, within the next few days, to an undisclosed location for an indefinite period of time, due to the multiple death threats I have received and the serious risk of an assassination attempt against me.
For this reason, I have just set up a GoFundMe campaign and I am asking for everyone's support to help me survive this serious situation created by the Portuguese State, which, as I have already stated, has knowingly decided to place my life at risk.
I would like to take this opportunity to extend a special thanks to everyone who continues to support Football Leaks, and I can give everyone one guarantee: the fight will most certainly continue!
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If Man City are as innocent as they have claimed once saying they have irrefutable evidence they are innocent then how comes they refused to cooperate with the Premier League this whole time and used every tactic to delay and install this case??
🚨 OFFICIAL: Manchester City statement.
“Manchester City FC is both disappointed and surprised by the opinion of the Premier League Commission, that has been published today.
The Club is innocent of the accusations made by the Premier League and a comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence exists in support of all of its positions, relating to this case. The Club will therefore be relentless, and where necessary proactive, in any and all appropriate regulatory and legal forums.
The Premier League process remains ongoing, with significant elements uncompleted.
Manchester City FC will now pursue the appeal avenues open to it, on the basis that the opinion contains clear material errors, of law, principle and fact, and is unsafe.
The Club has diligently respected due process for eight years on the basis that the Premier League Board and Executive would behave as an independent, impartial and fair-minded regulator, free from partisan influence.
The Club is obviously restricted in what it can say further until all future proceedings are complete”.
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BREAKING: The Premier League confirm an independent Commission has found Manchester City guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.
The independent Commission found that between Seasons 2009/10 and 2017/18:
"Manchester City arranged ‘sham’ contracts (which misrepresented the true agreement between the parties) with a number of its commercial partners, as well as relying on ‘sham’ agreements with others, to artificially inflate the club’s revenues and reduce its costs.
"The club filed misstated accounts and concealed the true state of its finances from its auditors and football regulators.
"Manchester City was significantly in breach of both the Premier League’s and UEFA’s spending limits.
"During the Premier League’s investigation, Manchester City committed multiple breaches of its duties of co-operation and utmost good faith towards the League (three of the four alleged breaches were upheld).
"The independent Commission found that Manchester City arranged ‘sham’ commercial deals with a number of its sponsors during the period, which were part of a disguised funding scheme, whereby those companies were only required to pay a portion of the relevant sponsorship fees. The remainder was funded by Abu Dhabi United Group Investment & Development Ltd (ADUG), which owned the club. As part of the scheme, further ‘sham’ arrangements, funded by ADUG, were entered into to enable the club to record lower operating expenses than it actually incurred, as well as a ‘sham’ circular arrangement with Fordham, an entity that purchased the club’s players’ image rights, that was funded by ADUG."
The EPL add: "The purpose of these schemes was found to have been to artificially inflate the club’s revenues, and reduce its costs, by more than £900 million during the affected period, to appear to comply with financial rules. The consequence of this, as the Commission found, was that the club filed misstated accounts and concealed the true state of its finances from its auditors and football regulators. The Commission concluded that ‘by its conduct the club clearly intended to circumvent the PL Rules.
"As a result, Manchester City failed to accurately report its income and expenditure for the purposes of the Premier League’s Profitability and Sustainability Rules and UEFA’s Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Rules. The Commission found that, had all of the relevant agreements been reported accurately in the club’s accounts, it would have been in breach of both the League’s and UEFA’s spending limits by a very substantial amount.
"In addition, during the course of the four-year investigation conducted by the Premier League, the club committed multiple breaches of its duties of co-operation and utmost good faith towards the League. The Commission concluded that the club had ‘made concerted efforts to stop and frustrate the PL investigation."
Richard Masters: “The core decision establishes the facts of what happened at Manchester City during this period. It details how the club systematically broke Premier League Rules for nearly a decade.
“It also vindicates the Premier League’s decision to pursue this case against Manchester City. While the process to date has been both long and difficult, the League has remained determined that the facts be established independently.
“It is a key responsibility of the Premier League to ensure that the Rules, approved by the clubs themselves, are upheld to protect the integrity of the competition. It is paramount that the League remains competitive and fair for all clubs and for the fans. We take that role extremely seriously.
“This disciplinary case, and this decision, are the most significant in Premier League history. There are elements of the case that remain to be decided, including, importantly, what sanction must follow for these breaches. Now we have the Commission’s decision, we are committed to moving swiftly through the remainder of the process, to provide certainty for the League, our clubs and fans.”
A redacted version of the independent Commission’s findings has been published.
Now that the charges have been proved, the issue of sanction will be addressed separately in a further hearing.
City has the right to appeal the independent Commission’s findings and has until Friday 2 October to exercise that right.
Hackney Gooner retweeted
City fans blaming the “Red Cartel” for financial rules is some deflection.
Since those rules came in, City have won 7 league titles. Arsenal, Liverpool and United have won 3 between them. Liverpool went 30 years without one, Arsenal went 22, and United haven’t won one since 2013. What exactly has this cartel been protecting?
And it’s not as if City were being held back before the rules. From 2009 to 2018, their net transfer spend was around £900m, nearly £400m more than United’s and roughly five times Liverpool’s or Arsenal’s.
I understand why Villa and Newcastle fans want rules that give them a better chance to catch up. I think that’s a fair debate. But clubs also need protecting from spending themselves into serious trouble, as Portsmouth showed. And if any owner can spend whatever they like, what stops the richest one turning the league into a procession nobody wants to watch?
Look at Bundesliga, and Ligue 1.. do we want to become a farmers league that City win every year?
City have dominated with financial rules in place, and now there’s a reported finding that they broke them.... which might explain why they have been able to dominate and not Arsenal, Liverpool, United.
Blaming Arsenal, Liverpool and United for wanting those rules enforced is ridiculous. Debate whether the rules should change, sure. But don’t act like the “Red Cartel” is the reason City are in this position... you got found guilty accept it.
Hackney Gooner retweeted
I don’t know much about Martin Samuels — but this is the worst drivel I’ve ever read.
1. FFP was created and implemented by UEFA. Mainly driven by Germany, France, Belgium and other continental Europe, and on the club side, Bayern and Real.
It takes 5 minutes of fact checking by anyone to find out that Arsenal, Liverpool and United had nothing to do with implementing the FFP rules in football. It is not in touch with reality in any way, shape or form.
It’s just dishonest or delusional — I don’t know what is worse — to claim anything else. To see it come from reporters at big newspapers is just remarkable.
What is most absurd is that reality is the complete opposite. The owners of Arsenal, Liverpool and United would tomorrow jump on a proposal to implement a strict salary cap in the PL where all clubs could spend exactly the same. Nobody even talk about this because it doesn’t suit their agenda.
2. Samuel also drives the thesis that City should not get punished because Man City, Man Utd, Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham agreed to join the Super League. A project that was stopped by fans of Liverpool and United taking things into their own hands.
The Super League was a betrayal of the very soul of football.
But the least of the concerns with a Super League was that it breached rules. Any club can leave the Premier League whenever it wants. When you say goodbye to the Premier League — you say goodbye to football the way every fan on the planet wants to see it played. But there is no law that you have to compete in it.
3. Facts are that Martin Samuels and his pals — that “care so much about English football” — were more than happy to look the other way when Malcom Glazers set up a ridiculous scheme to plunder England’s greatest football club. Why? Because everyone realized that it in the long run would cripple United’s ability to compete on the pitch.
4. An indisputable fact is that the Premier League supposedly run by this “Red Cartel” — always — have had the most fair distribution of wealth of all top leagues in Europe. And it is not even close.
67% of the PL’s revenue is divided equally between all PL clubs. If the highest income in a league is divided with the lowest, you get an income quota. The lower number, the more equal the wealth is divided. In the PL it is 1.6. In Serie A it’s 2.9. In Ligue 1 it’s 3.3. In Bundesliga it’s 3.8. In La Liga it’s 3.8 (and for a long time, up until 2015, it was 12-15).
Good guys may have won in case against Man City but losing everything in resulting reputational dumpster fire means there is very little to celebrate thetimes.com/sport/football/…
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Manchester City’s reiteration of their “confidence and intent in proving the club’s innocence” given their “comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence” is incredibly at odds with their own behaviour and the intensity in which they blocked the Premier League’s process of investigation at every step since December 2018.
The scale of their obstructing was revealed in a July 2021 British court judgment. City simply refused to supply information and documents requested by the league, which then issued a disciplinary complaint in August 2019. The club challenged the disciplinary process and the commission that was set up.
The league proposed an ad hoc procedure of appointing a new commission, but City objected to that too. The PL were forced to bring legal arbitration against the club, to be decided by a tribunal of three senior lawyers.
City countered the PL had no power to do that, and challenged the impartiality of the tribunal. That was rejected and the club were again ordered to submit all the documentation and info.
City then appealed to the high court to strike the tribunal down. In March 2021, a judge ruled against the club and that her findings should be published.
City unsuccessfully fought against it being made public knowledge; the judgement published in July illustrated just how hard and long they resisted providing information.
With all that confidence, intent and irrefutable evidence, why the YEARS of non-cooperation and active, intensive blocking?