General Premier League Thread 2022-23 - mod note in OP 12/03/23

This is such a bizarre defense of a club who have been investigated for financial issues 3 times now in the last 10 years!

Like if it was a club that was squeaky clean and people were throwing conspiracies around you could make that claim but City have been fined twice already for these issues and are currently under investigation for 100+ breaches. What more do you want before people start getting annoyed at trying to compete against it...

This is City who couldn't fill their allocation for a Wembley semi final but are claiming they have a higher turnover than current and record 14 time European champions Real Madrid, who many consider the biggest club in the world.

How do they have such a turnover when they clearly do not have the fan base that other clubs who are high up on footballs rich list have? Sponsors pay money to teams because they want their products in front of their fans and on TV so on. Clubs make money from selling said fans tickets to matches, merchandise, online media etc.. So how are City doing it? Who are they selling to?

More importantly, who is paying them to advertise to their fans when there is so obviously a lesser fan base there, so it should be worth less money but it is somehow magically worth more?

There is no other club on football's rich list at the top end of English football who wouldn't have sold out that semi final because fans would have known there is a fair chance they won't get tickets to the final if the club make it as there is so many other fans to compete against. City fans know they will get tickets so can make that decision and when they do decide not to go then there is no backlog of fans to take over those tickets.

Your argument is like saying the other cyclists should have just accepted Lance Armstrong was juiced to his eyeballs while they tried to compete with him for fear of them looking like they were jealous of his success 🤣

What world are you on pal?

The Lance Armstrong analogy is so perfect.

I also enjoy the argument that this only comes up when they're winning. As if that's a gotcha. Obviously it comes up when they're winning, because the season is spent hoping other teams can defy the odds.

If Jurgen Klopp hadn't brought such ridiculous performances out of Liverpool, we would be looking at a 6 in a row here, and Manchester United 12 points back being the closest any team has got to them in that time frame.

It's funny,it's only in the last number of weeks I have seen Arsenal fans complain about the cheating city are getting away with. Nothing out of them before that. It seems it's only when you are directly affected does it matter.

Mark Goldbridge on YT touched on this. If Arsenal had the home City game earlier in the season (postponed because of the Royal funeral), it's likely they would have won that game.

He literally answered it in the first line of his post.

yeah they are all on juice......which is why they are all under investigation for financial cheating.....oh wait no, that's just Man City. Over 100 charges.

And that's after they overturned a UEFA charge on a technicality. Also for financial cheating.

I never understood the hype Spurs get, in the last say 20 years they’re been nowhere near the same level as City, Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea or Arsenal and you can probably add Leicester to that group. They’ve got a great stadium but other than that If they weren’t in London we wouldn’t hear as much about them.

Anything City have won, especially since Pep arrived, is absolutely and utterly tarnished. I would love to see them relegated to the whatever the fook they call the Vauxhall Conference nowadays!

They have become a stadium that has a football team on the side... The stadium is the tail wagging the dog.

Like yourself, the hype is completely unjustified. They are no way the 4thbest team or squad in the EPL. Hard to know how they've ended up being expected to reach the Champions League, Kane has being carrying them. A poor goalie, can't really defend, poor enough midfield, Eric Dier, Son reverted to his normal pretty good but not really brilliant self, and soft mentally as well.