| Man City Question 10:46 - Jan 19 with 3151 views | stneotsbloke |
If/when Man City end up in Championship it presents a very unfair situation.
Most of their players would stay and they would surely walk through and back into the Prem at the first attempt. This is massively unfair on the rest of the Championship as one of the promotion places would be lost to Man City.
Totally unfair on the team who doesn't make the play-offs as a result of the FA putting City into a lower division.
Even more ridiculous if they end up in League 1.
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| Man City Question on 10:56 - Jan 19 with 3108 views | lightwaterhoop |
Good point but who said football is fair? | | | |
| Man City Question on 10:56 - Jan 19 with 3107 views | sprocket |
Not sure it makes much of a difference. The teams coming down now (and up from L1 if you manage it well) have such an advantage as to make gaining promotion very difficult to near impossible, especially if you don't have a well run club and coherent plan. | | | |
| Man City Question on 11:01 - Jan 19 with 3084 views | TheChef |
a) it won't happen.
b) even if it does, we'll be in League One so not an issue for us. |  |
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| Man City Question on 11:29 - Jan 19 with 3008 views | slmrstid |
It'd be like the 2006-07 Italian Serie B season when Juventus were relegated from Calciopoli. They would lose a lot of players, even if on loans, because a lot would still want to stay at the top level. Some would stay. They'd still be more than good enough to coast their way to a title.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307_Serie_B
A season that finished with Napoli and Genoa playing out a convenient 0-0 draw in the last match of the season so they'd both get promoted. Cynical, me? Never! |  | | |
| Man City Question on 12:04 - Jan 19 with 2894 views | lassel |
The chance of the PL being able to land those charges is between 0.0 & 0.01% | | | |
| Man City Question on 12:06 - Jan 19 with 2884 views | Juzzie |
If Man City don't get heavily punished if found guilty then what little hope is left will have gone.
It'll just be open-day for clubs like them to take the pi$$.
They've gotten away with it from a fans/media perspective for years because they've been the plucky club ('real fans from Manchester' etc) that's upset the domination from Man Utd & Chelsea but in reality, they've ended up just like them with every kid now wearing Man City tops. |  | | |
| Man City Question on 12:28 - Jan 19 with 2808 views | aston_hoop |
What will happen is a token punishment, a big fine that won't be a particular problem for their owners, a drop in the ocean. Maybe a token transfer window embargo, one or two at most. As if that would be a big issue for their squad. The new signings will be signed for one of their other clubs during this time, Girona or Palermo or whoever and then shifted to City once the embargo is done. There wont be any points deductions, relegations or anything like that. They just wouldn't dare and the City Group are just too powerful |  |
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| Man City Question on 12:40 - Jan 19 with 2772 views | lassel |
| Man City Question on 12:06 - Jan 19 by Juzzie |
If Man City don't get heavily punished if found guilty then what little hope is left will have gone.
It'll just be open-day for clubs like them to take the pi$$.
They've gotten away with it from a fans/media perspective for years because they've been the plucky club ('real fans from Manchester' etc) that's upset the domination from Man Utd & Chelsea but in reality, they've ended up just like them with every kid now wearing Man City tops. |
If they’re found guilty, there is no way they wouldn’t end up being expelled from the PL. The allegations are as serious as it’s possible to get.
However as the charges are so serious, it’s going to be nigh on impossible to prove, which may or may not have been the PLs intention all along. | | | |
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| Man City Question on 13:10 - Jan 19 with 2701 views | Juzzie |
| Man City Question on 12:28 - Jan 19 by aston_hoop |
What will happen is a token punishment, a big fine that won't be a particular problem for their owners, a drop in the ocean. Maybe a token transfer window embargo, one or two at most. As if that would be a big issue for their squad. The new signings will be signed for one of their other clubs during this time, Girona or Palermo or whoever and then shifted to City once the embargo is done. There wont be any points deductions, relegations or anything like that. They just wouldn't dare and the City Group are just too powerful |
Genuine question but how is it groups like the City Group are deemed too powerful? What are people scared of?
If Man City are found guilty and the appropriate punishment is meted out, what can the City Group do?..... invade somewhere?
Appeals etc is all they can do but surely the FA/FIFA/UEFA etc have just as much legal clout themselves? | | | |
| Man City Question on 14:22 - Jan 19 with 2586 views | SimonJames |
I wonder whether they could engineer a situation where they put their best team into a European superleague and leave the B team to get them promoted again. |  |
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| Man City Question on 17:27 - Jan 19 with 2416 views | Toast_R |
Relegation, 20 point deduction with a transfer embargo for 3 windows. That'll learn em. Could also remove their right to parachute payments. |  | | |
| Man City Question on 23:58 - Jan 19 with 2267 views | stowmarketrange |
| Man City Question on 11:29 - Jan 19 by slmrstid |
It'd be like the 2006-07 Italian Serie B season when Juventus were relegated from Calciopoli. They would lose a lot of players, even if on loans, because a lot would still want to stay at the top level. Some would stay. They'd still be more than good enough to coast their way to a title.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%E2%80%9307_Serie_B
A season that finished with Napoli and Genoa playing out a convenient 0-0 draw in the last match of the season so they'd both get promoted. Cynical, me? Never! |
Napoli finished 11 pts clear of 4th place and Genoa were 10 pts clear.Not really much of a scandal was it? |  | | |
| Man City Question on 02:00 - Jan 20 with 2202 views | VancouverHoop |
| Man City Question on 10:56 - Jan 19 by lightwaterhoop |
Good point but who said football is fair? |
Well quite.
It's always been bent. Not the games, but by league and by club. Arsenal moved from Woolwich to Highbury because it made financial sense, and they could swing it with the Football League and FA. How?
Chelsea's founder built a stadium that Fulham didn't want, so he invented a new club. How?
All the "boot money," and phantom jobs,for players in senior "amateur" football. Everyone knew about it, but it existed for decades, why?
Bending the rules has always been part and parcel of the game. All you can do, as a fan, is support and enjoy your own team on the pitch on a Saturday. It's the only part of the sport that isn't bent... most of the time. | | | |
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