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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all charges relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations. #MCFC expected to appeal against verdict issued by independent commission. Sanctions undecided, process ongoing @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/7049721…
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Not a word from carragher and neville. Cant shut up about everything else but dead silent on tbe biggest cheating scandal in football history
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Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of Premier League financial rules by an independent commission, the league has said.
Manchester City have indicated their intention to appeal the decision.
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🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: 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 club has the right to appeal the independent Commission’s findings and has until Friday 2 October to exercise that right.
The Premier League Board’s intention is that the full process (including any appeals and publication of relevant decisions) is concluded as soon as possible.
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)
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🚨 Dortmund sporting director on the record about the 2022 Haaland sale:
“Manchester City never wanted the real number out. That was the first condition they put on the table. Not the release clause everyone printed. The full package.
Officially it was reported as £51 million because that was the figure written into the clause and that was the figure they asked us to stand by.
Internally it was a completely different conversation. When you add the guaranteed payments, the structured extras and what was agreed around the player’s camp, we were looking at something close to €250 million all-in.
That is more than PSG paid for Neymar in 2017. City knew that. We knew that. They did not want Europe talking about it.
They were very clear: if Dortmund confirmed anything above the clause, the deal would become politically messy for them. So there was a private understanding.
We stay silent on the real total. They stay silent. A few people in the media were steered toward the £51m line and that became the official story
I am not going to sit here four years later and pretend we sold the best young striker in Europe for pocket money. We did not. City paid what they had to pay to get him. They just did not want the world to see the receipt.”
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There are no reports of Dortmund's sporting director making these comments on the record. Manchester City paid the €60m release clause in Haaland's Dortmund contract, reported as £51m. Reports from 2022 estimated City's total costs including other payments at over €200m.
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BREAKING 🚨🚨🚨
Israel struggles after facing opponent that isn’t an unarmed 6-year-old.
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- Ils ont parlé avant le match.
- Ils ont soutenu la Palestine.
- Ils ont baissé la tête pendant l'hymne nationale.
- Ils n'ont pas serré la main des joueurs.
- Célébration avec un brassard noir pour les victimes.
- 3-0.
Les Irlandais ont été légendaire.
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🚨 Jack Moylan kisses the black armband after scoring Ireland’s third goal against Israel — a gesture of remembrance for those killed in Gaza.
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13/14 - Sterling flagged offside
18/19 - Kompany not sent off
21/22 - Rodri handball, pen not given
23/24 - Karate kick to the chest, pen not given
Somehow EVERY one of these decisions went City’s way, and they went on to win ALL those titles. They pay off officials too.
It won't get mentioned because everyone in the country loves noshing him off, but what a complete and utter cheating shit stain Pep Guardiola is. He knew exactly what was coming and fucked off at the first chance. Jurgen Klopp pisses all over him as a manager.
99, 97, 92 points tallies.
Going toe-to-toe with a sell-to-buy policy against a sovereign state who broke all the rules and did what they wanted when they wanted to.
Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool are the greatest modern day PL team.
And he is the greatest modern day PL manager.
🚨 Virgil van Dijk reacts to Brobbey’s injury:
🗣️“This has been the complaint of almost every footballer, but FIFA doesn’t seem to listen. We just finished the World Cup a few months ago, so what’s the rush with having international games again so soon?
It’s too much workload on the players. Brobbey was in amazing form, and now he’s injured. How do you expect players not to get injured when they play a game on Sunday and then another one just a few days later?
It’s bizarre. I don’t want to speak too much about it because I don’t want to get myself into trouble, but FIFA really needs to look into the schedule. The players are the ones paying the price.”
