🚨🚨| JUST IN: UEFA confirm they have received Real Madrid's report on the Negreira case, with Madrid wanting Barcelona 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐃 of all titles won from 2001-2018. ⚖️🇪🇸
The 50,000-page document includes evidence and witness statements.
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🚨 Dortmund sporting director on the record about the 2022 Haaland sale:
“Manchester City never wanted the real number out. That was the first condition they put on the table. Not the release clause everyone printed. The full package.
Officially it was reported as £51 million because that was the figure written into the clause and that was the figure they asked us to stand by.
Internally it was a completely different conversation. When you add the guaranteed payments, the structured extras and what was agreed around the player’s camp, we were looking at something close to €250 million all-in.
That is more than PSG paid for Neymar in 2017. City knew that. We knew that. They did not want Europe talking about it.
They were very clear: if Dortmund confirmed anything above the clause, the deal would become politically messy for them. So there was a private understanding.
We stay silent on the real total. They stay silent. A few people in the media were steered toward the £51m line and that became the official story
I am not going to sit here four years later and pretend we sold the best young striker in Europe for pocket money. We did not. City paid what they had to pay to get him. They just did not want the world to see the receipt.”
🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Manchester City received £949.94 MILLION in commercial income from Abu Dhabi sponsors between 2009 and 2018.
Only £119.25M actually came from the sponsors themselves.
The remaining £830.69M consisted of “Tagged Sums” paid by Abu Dhabi United Group, Manchester City’s owners.
— @ESPN
🚨 La Liga president Javier Tebas on Man City punishment: “I believe it should be the STRICTEST punishment in the Premier League regulations”.
“It must serve as an example. Violating the rules for over 10 years is a very serious thing”, told FIFPRO.
IT’S OFFICIAL: The @premierleague confirms Manchester City are the biggest cheats in British football history.
Punishment must hurt:
Relegate them, strip them of their fraudulently won titles + dock them 25pts for first 5 seasons if/when they get back in the Premier League.
🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Premier League confirm an independent Commission has found Manchester City GUILTY OF ALL CHARGES related to serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules over a nine-season period, and the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate with the League’s investigation.
The club has the right to appeal the independent Commission’s findings and has until Friday 2 October to exercise that right.
The Premier League Board’s intention is that the full process (including any appeals and publication of relevant decisions) is concluded as soon as possible.
The independent Commission found that between Seasons 2009/10 and 2017/18:
- Manchester City arranged ‘sham’ contracts (which misrepresented the true agreement between the parties) with a number of its commercial partners, as well as relying on ‘sham’ agreements with others, to artificially inflate the club’s revenues and reduce its costs
- The club filed misstated accounts and concealed the true state of its finances from its auditors and football regulators
- Manchester City was significantly in breach of both the Premier League’s and UEFA’s spending limits
- During the Premier League’s investigation, Manchester City committed multiple breaches of its duties of co-operation and utmost good faith towards the League (three of the four alleged breaches were upheld)
Scott Jennings just dragged CNN’s Sara Sidner into the deep end during a debate about White South African refugees.
Sidner was melting down over the Trump administration’s proposed plan to assist Afrikaner refugees facing persecution.
She thought she had won the argument when she said:
“There is NO genocide happening in South Africa.”
But that wasn’t the point Jennings was making.
Regardless of whether the situation meets the definition of genocide, the administration had determined that this group of people was facing violence and discrimination based on race.
Therefore they qualify as refugees into America.
JENNINGS: “It is simply, in my opinion, a reprioritization of the refugee program.”
“There doesn’t need to be a genocide occurring for the administration to conclude that there’s some sort of racial discrimination and violence occurring against a population of people.”
Sidner began to unravel.
The amount of vitriol being directed at these refugees simply because they don’t fit the racial narrative that the left wants to promote is pretty wild.