2022-23 UEFA Champions League

As well as the money the other serious concern is the amount of political power the Middle East has in the UK. Boris Johnson while PM was interfering with the Newcastle takeover.

No but don't be hypocrites. Don't complain about murdering countries and at the same time support murdering criminals with ur Saturday night habits. My original point is UEFA signed up to CAS voluntarily not with a gun to their head and therefore agreed to abide by their rulings. The 115 charges are from the PL so those comments surely belong in the PL forum and are irrelevant to the competition that was being played tonight.

Whataboutery is the official term for this BullSht.

It's not about the money, money, money

We don't need your money, money, money

We just wanna make the world dance

Forget about the price tag

Imagine being a City fan, how can you not hang your head in **** shame.

Why? City fans have done nothing wrong. As a MUFC who is hoping Ratcliffe becomes the new owner, I'll still support the club even if its Sheikh Jassim thats becomes owner. I cant control who the owner is.

Let the City fans enjoy this success. It's the EPL that needs to hang its head in shame for not doing something about the financial doping.

I know of at least two men who were given sites to play football for a club at a mediocre level in a Midlands county. Sites worth were probably €50k at the time. None of that every declared.

How many trainers up and down the country are receiving cash in hand on a weekly basis for training clubs. That cash never gets declared to revenue.

Millions floating around in the GAA yearly that is never officially there, and that's before we even look at how the budget for Dublin GAA is more than the rest of Leinster combined.

Did they cheat?

There are rules in both competitions that City have been found to have broken. One they got a reduced punishment due to a technicality(they were still fined) and the other is ongoing - and it’s ongoing because even though they publicly claim to have incontrovertible evidence and are happy to assist the PL, their lawyers are ensuring every request is dragged through the courts for as long as possible.

The argument about Uniteds spend is moot. They worked within the confines of each tournament.

City are cheating by wilfully ignoring the rules they signed up to in each competition. Everyone knows this, and none of their achievements will be remembered in the same regard as others because of this. I think West Ham’s European win this season was more impressive when you consider the resources they have.

Complete and utter nonsense as others have already rationalised in detail.

City spent their first few seasons under Abu Dhabi signing every player United had been linked with, Aguero, Silva even Robinho was under the impression he was going to United when he signed for City.

That and they took nearly half of Arsenal's first team over the course of a couple of seasons.

City were so determined to do things differently to the established clubs that they aped everything they did and cooked the books the whole way along. Such an underdog story.

Meanwhile United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs you name a club who've been around the top of the table in recent years and they've all been bringing young players into their first teams from their academy, City have token academy boy Phil Foden on the bench as some sort of grudging nod to youth development as if they aren't playing a completely different game to everyone else.

Yep, this is why I have no sympathy for people whinging about City.

EPL fans have largely been happy to turn a blind eye to all the dirty money pouring into the game... desperately hoping their club will be the next ones to get a rich sugar daddy. Now, all of a sudden, it's become too much for them to stomach... yeah sure, pull the other one! lol

Every club is trying to get a financial edge over each other. No integrity and no real values, just do whatever to get ahead. It's a financial arms race and has been for 20+ years.

Even stuff that most fans are completely ignorant about. Like for example, have you ever questioned why/how a club like Spurs, who haven't won anything of substance in decades can build a billion pound stadium? Or why they would even need/want to do this? It's simple, the likes of Levy has access to vast amounts of money from city of London financiers who he can call on to essentially write a blank cheque. This is not money they've made through success on the pitch, it's just a sneaky way of cheating by calling in favours from your powerful friends. And they will use that stadium as a world class events venue, likely making more money from concerts and NFL games than from the football revenue... which they will plough back into the club and call it legitimate revenue streams.

I mean ffs, why not just build a Las Vegas style casino stripe in north London and call it a day? lol

I'm not just singling out Spurs btw, they're all at it... trying to find new revenue streams anywhere they can. They don't give monkey's whether it's even remotely relevant to the football club.