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Not to piss on his chips but if we are found guilty on appeal, it will mean we will have won everything by not being bound by arbitrary financial rules and by being able to outspend our rivals - exactly the same circumstances as he won all of his trophies under.
"The achievements are tarnished"
Gary Neville reacts to the news that Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of Premier League financial rules.
Manchester City have lodged an appeal against the guilty verdict.
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Omits the last English player to win the ballon d’or, in the 21st Century 🤦🏼♂️
Was pondering how many genuine Ballon-D'Or-level players England have produced so far in the 21st century. Imo:
Rooney
Bale
Kane
Rice
Bellingham
The trend has broadly been one per 5 year cycle - 2002, 2006, 2011, 2017, 2020
I wonder who the '25-'30 player will be (it's Dowman)
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Good about his XG against Man City though wasn’t it
Dutch doctor suggests Brian Brobbey has 'very serious hamstring injury' talksport.com/football/46209…
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🚨🎾😲 #WATCH — Billionaire & Celtic FC boss Dermond Desmond was playing alongside Brooks Kopeka when he had tennis balls chucked at him on the 15th hole at the Dunhill Links today. Fans are protesting how he’s running the club.
Anthony Joseph
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Good to know, caus I’ve watched the games with my eyes, not though frankly ridiculous stats, and he’s been hotching for the most part of the season so far
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Man United conceded six after spending billion because City cooked the books.
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All this hatred directed at MAN CITY from other clubs should be directed at ARSENAL MAN UTD LIVERPOOL there the 1s who are corrupt and trying to stop other teams from winning things not MAN CITY were trying to help you all out were like Jesus prepared to die on the cross
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The fairest possible solution would be to send Anderson back to Newcastle on a free
And deduct 10 points from Everton
So Newcastle had to sell Elliot Anderson for £35 million to comply with financial regulations but (via Nottingham Forest) Man City were allowed to spend up to £130 million to buy him in spite of being in breach of financial regulations (according to the independent panel). Hmm.
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Yeah it’s too late UNLUCKY you wait till we play BLUE MOON through marshal amps right down your chops
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They could stitch it on no bother in the 80s and 90s and stick it on the tele with no issues but it's too hard to reproduce digitally in 2026 supposedly, what a load of shite man
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Speaking as a football fan, not a Sunderland fan. I hate the modernisation of crests. Nobody can tell me the new badge looks better than this one. If anyone tries to say it is, I'll say you're lying.
You've took the badge and made it look like a template in a kids colouring book
Our new crest is the culmination of more than two years of comprehensive consultation, including supporter events, focus groups, workshops and surveys.
Read more about the process and journey: newcastleunited.com/en/news/…
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If someone said to me you can win every trophy possible in football but get relegated to League 2 in 20 years I’d say “see you in League 2” #NUFC
Just a reminder Manchester City’s ownership initially arrived to English football to buy Newcastle United
They only switched to Manchester City after a deal with Mike Ashley fell through ❌
Might be the biggest bullet ever dodged in football
#NUFC
youtu.be/xBqL66PkFaA?is=571s…
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On paper yeah it’s “cheating” but let’s be honest it’s not is it, a billionaire bought a club outside of the big 4 and wanted them to be the best
He cooked the books to use his own money and make them a huge footballing power that’s now self sufficient
Wouldn’t surprise me if they get let off with a fine
They haven’t damaged the club they have improved it
They haven’t damaged the league they have made it exciting, the league now has 6/7 teams going for the top 4 positions
Let Newcastle do the same
🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Manchester City received £949.94 MILLION in commercial income from Abu Dhabi sponsors between 2009 and 2018.
Only £119.25M actually came from the sponsors themselves.
The remaining £830.69M consisted of “Tagged Sums” paid by Abu Dhabi United Group, Manchester City’s owners.
— @ESPN
Community note
Violating rules is quite literally the definition of cheating:
merriam-webster.com/dictionary/che…
An independent commission found Manchester City guilty of serious breaches of Premier League financial fair play rules
premierleague.com/en/news/472777…
This means they cheated and so if we’re being “honest” we would call it cheating
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They’d win the league 6/9 of them.
A way to sanction Manchester City?
Give 1 point deduction for each of 114 breaches.
You don’t want to relegate+massive point deduction?
So do like this:
as breaches happened along 9 seasons,
then give
114 points : 9 seasons;
13 points deduction for each of next 9 seasons
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A way to sanction Manchester City?
Give 1 point deduction for each of 114 breaches.
You don’t want to relegate+massive point deduction?
So do like this:
as breaches happened along 9 seasons,
then give
114 points : 9 seasons;
13 points deduction for each of next 9 seasons
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