The hypocrisy seeing so many of the same bunch screaming sorosoke @ the #EndSARS protest 2½years ago and also allegedly blaming Buhari and Tinubu for #LekkiMassaccre now feeling BATified have me wondering "Are our Leaders really the problem or the Youth?"🤷🏽♂️
🔵 Manchester City spend freely and have been found guilty of 114 financial charges
🔵 Chelsea spend freely and got hit with 74 charges
🔵 Everton build a stadium and received two separate points deductions
⚪️ Nottingham Forest got a points deduction for overspending in the Championship
🌑 Newcastle have the richest owners in the world but are forced to sell their best players (Isak to LFC and Guimarães to AFC) due to PSR restraints
🟣 Aston Villa build a team to challenge at the top of the Premier League every few years then are forced to sell their best players (Tielemans to United) due to PSR restraints
🔴 Manchester United spend without PSR restraints
🔴 Liverpool spend without PSR restraints
🔴 Arsenal spend without PSR restraints
🔴 This is how PSR protects the Red Cartel clubs….
Mark Goldbridge has nailed it here 🤝
“Because they’ve got rich owners, but they cannot spend the money and they have to sell their best players every year whereas, Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal don’t”
PSR in a nutshell 🥜
🚨 Andy Durham: "Rules put in place are anti-competitive. #PL has got it badly wrong" 👀
"I look at the Glazers saddling Man Utd with eyewatering debt. And apparently that's okay" 🤔
"There's a lot of good that #ManCity have done with the money they've pumped into football" 👏
A lot of people don’t pay attention to details when they read.
Manchester City are being probed over the period from 2009/10 to 2017/18. That is the period the financial allegations are concerned with.
Pep Guardiola still went on to win five Premier League titles after that period 2018/19, 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24.
He won 4 Premier League titles in a row from 2020/21 to 2023/24. City also broke the 100 point barrier. He achieved it by being better than everyone of us. It’s not because of any charges. They played the best football at that time.
You can discuss the allegations, you can discuss what happens, but you cannot rewrite the timeline.
Accept it. He dogwalked the EPL.
Imagine a game of Monopoly…
You join halfway through with wads of cash. The other players already have hotels everywhere.
Then they create a new rule: you can only spend what your existing properties generate.
That’s Financial Fair Play.
#mcfc#cfc#avfc#nufc@henrywinter
A reminder that Chelsea faced 74 charges and admitted ALL 74:
- 37 Concealing/misrepresenting transactions
- 31 Unauthorised agents/intermediaries
- 6 Third-party investment breaches
- 44 transactions involving 32 players
The Commission found the overall motive was to gain a sporting advantage.
The final punishment? £10m fine + suspended two-window registration ban.
🎙"I've been investigating fraud in football for 50 years, and everyone has escaped what they really deserve." 👏
"You can't tell me Man Utd weren't guilty of irregular payments, because they have been through the ages and I've 'investigated' them in the past" 👀
#ManCity#PL
The realest Arsenal fan with a high IQ 😂😂 The rest, along with Manchester United and Liverpool fans, are out here begging for Man City Tittle because of the 114 case . 😭😂
🚨🇸🇪 Zlatan Ibrahimović on Premier League clubs celebrating Manchester City’s 115 charges:
🗣️ Zlatan: “I don’t blame them for celebrating these charges. (laughs) We are talking about a club that has traumatized almost every other club in this league for years. Pep came to the Premier League hearing everyone say it’s the most difficult league in the world, then he came and farmed the league like it was a Division Two league.
“He exposed them. He dominated them for years. So if they can’t win against Manchester City on the pitch, I understand why they are celebrating what is happening off it.
“But now they talk as if these charges were the reason Manchester City dominated. Like that was the main tactic City came with onto the pitch. Forgetting the beautiful football they played, how they controlled games and how they actually won those trophies.
“You can celebrate the charges, you can talk about them, you can wait for the verdict. But don’t rewrite football history. Manchester City dominated on the pitch. That is why they won all those trophies.”
The Premier League and the Red Cartel clubs have created a set of PSR rules and regulations that have made it impossible for teams to consistently challenge for trophies without breaking the rules.
❌ Manchester City and Chelsea have broken the rules attempting to win trophies and been hit with 115 and 74 charges respectively.
❌ Aston Villa and Newcastle build squads that are capable of consistently challenging near the top of the Premier League, then get decimated by PSR and are forced to sell their best players.
❌ Leicester won the title and have now vanished down the divisions.
❌ Everton were hit with two separate points deductions for building a stadium.
PSR protects the Red Cartel 🔴🤝
The most misused word in Nigeria has to be “ramifications.”
Here are 10 words Nigerians commonly misuse:
1.🔹Ramifications
People think it means “in all ways.”
But it simply means consequences or effects.
2.🔹Double-dating
People think it means dating two people at once.
But it simply means two different couples going on a date together.
3.🔹Bogus
People think it means “very big.”
But it actually means fake or fraudulent.
4.🔹Severally
People think it means “many times.”
But it actually means separately or individually.
5.🔹Lousy
People think it means “noisy.”
But it actually means terrible or of poor quality.
6.🔹Dupe
People think a dupe is a scammer.
But a dupe is actually the person who has been deceived or scammed.
7.🔹Herbalist
People often use it to mean a “witch doctor.”
But a herbalist is someone who practises herbal medicine.
8.🔹Invaluable
People think it means “useless.”
But it actually means extremely valuable.
9.🔹Nonchalant
People think it means negligent or careless.
But it actually means calm and unconcerned.
10.🔹Stubborn
People think it means playful or troublesome.
But it simply means unwilling to change your mind or behaviour.
People are saying it like Man City were cheating on the pitch that’s why they were winning.
1. Financial information — 54 charges
From 2009/10 to 2017/18, City were accused of failing to provide accurate financial information to the Premier League.
This particularly concerned: revenue, sponsorship, income, operating costs
the club’s overall financial position
2. Player and manager payments — 14 charges
City were accused of failing to properly disclose the full amounts paid to players and managers between 2009/10 and 2017/18.
3. UEFA Financial Fair Play — 5 charges
City were accused of failing to comply with UEFA’s financial regulations/FFP rules between 2013/14 and 2017/18.
4. Premier League Profitability & Sustainability Rules — 7 charges
They were also accused of breaching the Premier League’s own profitability and sustainability rules (PSR) during 2015/16–2017/18.
5. Failure to cooperate — 35 charges
City were accused of not properly cooperating with the Premier League’s investigation, which ran from December 2018 to February 2023.
But I keep seeing people talk about it as if the charges prove that City won all those Premier League titles because they cheated on the pitch.
There is no charge here saying City fixed matches, bribed referees, manipulated results or illegally influenced individual games.