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@rioferdy5 @MrStephenHowson @lauriewhitwell @TheAthleticFC Should we be concerned about what will happen to this wolf named Berada?!

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@RuiPinto_FL Molina explained it all in his last vid on YouTube. Crazy

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Once clubs start asking for compensation, someone has to separate actual loss from “City cost us this title, that Champions League place, that player, those millions”

Burnley v Everton has already changed the psychology of it. Clubs now know a rival’s rule breach can potentially become their own damages claim.

So this can stop being Premier League v Manchester City.

It risks becoming club v club v club.

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@_shaunirvine we’ve basically invited the wolf into the house

Man saw the smoke coming from City, packed his bags and chose to ended up at the enemy base to hide.

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@CounterPressers I love watching Rio
the next step for him maybe his decisions after beating defenders

Sterling at City is an interesting reference. He was taught about best final third behaviours and decisions

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He is not doubt one of the greatest tacticians of his generation and still have raced with advantages that were not available to everyone else.

still had to convert that possibility into an extremely high-performing football machine.
He helped creating the multiplier I would say: price money, CL revenues, sponsors and all

Sure that hes tactical legacy exists independently of City

Some can say that Ferguson had financial advantages too.

But, difference is how those advantages were generated.

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I also think the biggest consequence of the City verdict might be what English football is forced to become afterwards.

Because if the Commission’s findings are right, this wasn’t simply overspending.

Sham contracts. Disguised owner funding. Misstated accounts. Deliberate attempts to frustrate the investigation over YEARS.

I can see 2 failures:

One club allegedly learned how to operate around the financial system.

And the system took nearly 8 years to establish it.

Punishing City may restore some authority.

But if English football finishes this case with the same investigative powers, the same delays + the same dependence on clubs voluntarily supplying information…

Then you have punished the symptom, not fixing the system.

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The Indepedant Commission admit the case has taken "much longer than we would have wished" but add they had to go through 7,000 pages of transcripts.

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@JacobsBen I wonder if a club can frustrate that process for years, then the regulator needs either much stronger investigative powers or punishments severe enough to make non-cooperation irrational.

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The hardest part of the City is probably deciding what exactly the punishment is supposed to repair.

A fine, points deduction, compensation cannot recreate a title race.

And throwing City several divisions down the pyramid is far more complicated legally than simply saying “send them to the National League”.

If the verdict survives appeal, City could face severe sporting consequences.

Ultimately what frustrating punishment can sanction the past but certainly cannot reconstruct it.

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@WaruiJohn2 All they want is attention bro

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My issue with Ancelotti’s isn’t really the names he selects. It’s that too many things are being tested at once.

New defenders.
New midfield combinations.
A different role for Vinícius.
A more vertical attacking idea.

All of those ideas make sense individually.

But together at the same time, I think it becomes difficult to know what Brazil are actually building.

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@pythaginboots agree with you. But I think there is something quite interesting with Giggs as well
the ability to repeatedly reinvent his role
This may itself be a form of elite football intelligence which can easily be undervalued.

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@Nuel006 Unfair comparison in most aspects.

Many thinks that recency makes the present automatically better.

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@Mcfc_page26 every other teams will have fckn green lights

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@htomufc United's connectivity problem is larger than Bruno. Sometimes he solves it.

Sometimes he becomes part of an attack that is itself poorly connected.
It will be interesting to see the game without him

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@FrankEra_ I don't rate the recruitment of Dorgu and Sesko.

United are buying too many players who still need you to imagine the finished version.

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@Arsenal_rep1 The agenda was very clear 😭

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@thatsam009_ Finally a Portugal coach understands that

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@Utd_FreQuency Respect

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@XolidCity Money is the only reason for everything in this sport