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Well yeah, if they get kicked out of the league because they lied about their income. they're gonna have to comply with the rules or else it'll just happen again.
They can't win the champions league if they're in league 2 and banned from Europe altogether.
I doubt it for that reason, no.
But you do have to ask how they spent as much as they did in the last 7 years with no CL football at all.
6 titles they won spanning the period in question. What a joke. The PL just let it happen. Surely when a club starts to spend big it should set off the alarm bells?
They should be stripped of all titles and the teams beneath upgraded. What about those that got relegated ?
They should be stripped of all titles and the teams beneath upgraded. What about those that got relegated ?
I dunno if I can cope with United and Liverpool getting given 3 more titles.
But if they follow this on to Chelsea and take theirs away - hello 2016/2017 season
Because the more detailed the investigation, the bigger the payoff for the corrupt scum running the FA.
Nothing of any significance will happen to the blood money peddlers.
Dias or Foden or both
No chance they take away previous titles. Too messy.
Will be 15 points deducted next season (max) imo.
All the other clubs might as well do the same as City. 6 titles then one bad season as a consequence . Its no deterrent. If awarding titles to the second placers is too messy just strip City and void those years. Then compensation should be paid to the other clubs for lost revenue.
Chelsea should be investigated as we.. One good thing is that Newcastle’s new owners will think twice about what they might have been planning.
When the members of the commission are named you'll know how serious the league is about it. The real problem is deciding what an appropriate punishment is. The problem with City is their bottomless financial resources. You could name whatever huge fine you wanted and City's ownership could easily absorb it. An 18 month ban on participating in the transfer window might be appropriate. I don't see the league making them vacate any championships. It will be interesting and, at the end of the day, City's lawyers may be good enough to get them out of it with just a fine.
What the PL will want to ensure is that City have to engage in squad building under FFP rules at a revenue deficit to their competition, essentially the status quo ante before City violated the rules.
That means a combination of a transfer ban and some sort of ban on CL participation, IMO. Pegs them back to the competitive position from which they started.
The rules allow ownership to invest, and City's bottomless resources will always give them an advantage, but there are transparently established limits to which they (and critically Newcastle as well) must be bound.