The former Manchester City chairman, David Bernstein, says that his old club need to be punished with more than fines if it is confirmed they were in breach of financial regulations. City’s chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak protested his club’s “innocence” again this weekend following reports that they had been found guilty of the overwhelming majority of the charges. City are expected to appeal.
There has been no indication of potential sanctions yet but these include fines, points deductions, expulsion from the Premier League and transfer bans. “I would first of all say that financial penalties will not be enough,” Bernstein told The Sunday Edition on talkSPORT. "We're talking about a club with limitless pockets – money doesn't mean very much as we saw in the last transfer window. Whether it's (a fine of) £100m, £200m, that would not be sufficient.
"Unfortunately, I say all of these things with great sorrow, I really do as a fan, I think there has to be something that will affect their league status.
"And if it was to be a points deduction, it depends on timing. Because if it was today, with the season just a few games in, and the points deduction had to be something that was terminal as far as their Premier League status was concerned (ie leading to relegation), I worked out you'd have to have something like 80 points deducted, which would mean the club could not recover this season and would go down.
“But if this happens at the end of the season, because of the appeals and so on, it's a different kettle of fish, and then you may be talking about an automatic relegation – to which division I don't know. I think it does depend partly on the timing.” @talkSPORT
🌕 Lamine Yamal on the Ballon d’Or speaking to The Guardian: “Honestly, I don’t think it’s just this year that I’ve been at the level to win the Ballon d’Or… but it’s been for longer time”.
“Everybody knows it, and they know I’m a player who makes a difference. I believe some people think: Lamine is 19… he’ll win Ballon d’Or someday, so let’s give it to someone else”.
“I just have to 𝐰𝐢𝐧, 𝐰𝐢𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐧, and there’ll come a moment when there won’t be any debate. There will be people who love it and others who say: 𝐡𝐞’𝐬 𝐬𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐲𝐢𝐧𝐠… and that’s normal”.
🍿🇪🇸 Lamine Yamal scores on his first game at Wembley reaching 15 G/A this season in all competitions for club and country.
9 goals, 6 assists in 9 games.
So Kane is the favourite to win the Ballon D’or despite Olise winning the player of the year in the Bundesliga and Jude winning England’s player of the year.
And outside of the Bundesliga he won nothing of significance.
Makes sense as to why Bayern fans can’t answer me when I ask them why he deserves the Ballon D’or.