Steven Craven

[PlasticManCityFan @mrdaniel989]

This Gary Neville flip is nasty work 😭

He spent years saying FFP protects the old elite.

City finally get hit by those rules and suddenly he wants the owners forced out.

So was the system rigged, or did you only hate it before it hurt City?

[Blue Mooner @Mancity_dreamer]

We’ve truly reached a point in football where, under our Premier League regulators, it is acceptable to be:

✅£1.15bn in debt
✅Playing in a decaying stadium after years of chronic under investment
✅Borrowing a further £90m in recent months - but that's not unfair investment
✅Spending heavily while building turgid football teams

But a club with

✅No debt,
✅Owners who have invested hundreds of millions in developing a stadium and regenerating East Manchester
✅Teams that have thrilled football fans around the world is somehow the bad one....?

This is the state of the UK today.

But it’s all about "profit and sustainability", right?

Sad times.

[Hugo 🇳🇴🩵 @MCFC_Hugo]

Manchester City changed the standard in English football.

Before City, plenty of clubs spent heavily. The difference is that City turned investment into a footballing structure that could keep producing results year after year.

That is why the obsession with reducing everything to “money” feels so lazy. It ignores everything that happened after the investment.

#114charges #ManCity

[Colin Rice @colingeorgerice]

Never should a cartel ever be allowed to hijack a league ever again.

[Steven Donlon @StevenDonlon]

Watching the Man City saga unfold as someone with absolutely no allegiance to either side…

One of the key pillars of football’s financial rules is supposedly “financial sustainability”.

So how is City’s owner effectively gifting equity to the club considered such a problem, while the Glazers loading Man United with huge debt and interest costs is compliant?

City broke the rules — punish them accordingly. But if debt-loading a club is acceptable while gifting equity isn’t, can we really claim these rules protect financial sustainability?

Perhaps it’s not just the clubs that need scrutiny. Perhaps the rules themselves do.

@talkSPORT @Mrjamieohara1

[Titö Activé @titoactiv]

The story of Manchester City is bigger than football. Investment, jobs, regeneration and global recognition have helped shape modern Manchester. A legacy that goes far beyond the pitch. 💙

[Titö Activé @titoactiv]

🔵 If Man City had loaded the club with massive debt instead, would we have avoided these charges while still achieving the same success?

Just think about that. 👀⚖️

How is that supposed to be a fair system?
💙🔵

[Blue Mooner @Mancity_dreamer]

@thebottomcorna If someone's not interested in your comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence then there's not an awful lot you can do.

[Blue Mooner @Mancity_dreamer]

@The5th_estateUK Nothing because the rules are bullshit and we're not guilty anyway.

[Blue Mooner @Mancity_dreamer]

Goo! get rid of the corrupt PL executives and the corrupt rules.

A clean slate, where owners are allowed to invest in their clubs, but an upper limit for all to prevent fabulously rich owners like our own, distorting the football market. I expect most City fans would have been ok with these type of financial control measures. Light touch and very transparent for fans to understand.

That is what FFP should have been from the start. Not corrupt rules to stop owners from developing their clubs and to protect the already established clubs from challenge.

That's a proper sport where the best win.

[Liam Gallagher @liamgallagher]

@thecitydefender They should apologize and make all the other clubs apologize and there fans apologize give us 10 points head start each season for as long as this has been hanging over us then we’re good to go

[pizzy @Citizzy]

Alex Ferguson approved a 7.4 million pound transfer for Bebe to Man United without ever watching him play a single minute of football just for super agents to pocket 40 percent of the fee which literally forced the Portuguese anti corruption police to launch a criminal inquiry into the deal before closing it without charges

[Mark F @blueranger99]

Honestly innocent City fans will be going to watch their team play. @GNev2 and @IanWright0 you two fucking morons should be ashamed of yourselves

[SlimMancunian @BlueMoonTakes]

City buying players through legitimate, mutually agreed transfers doesn’t inherently mean those clubs suffered lasting damage. They received the agreed fees and reinvested that money. That’s how football works to this day. If City don’t buy a player, another club can. Spending doesn’t automatically guarantee success either, as United have shown by spending heavily and still struggling.

This is why the Athletic’s coverage of this story feels like part of a broader smear campaign against City, turning legitimate transfers into evidence of wrongdoing when those transfers themselves were neither illegal nor illegitimate.

[Rey @totalsane]

How did Fergie’s brother-in-law end up as chief scout at United? How did his son, who was utter dogshit, get a first team contract? These clowns just be saying anything for clicks

[Reg @GoodwinReg]

Hahaha Gary Neville is a blue 😂😂😂

[Sean Riley ⚽💙ctwd🏆🏆🏆😉👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧 @mcfcsince1894]

@janectid66 - coudnt agree more @henrywinter needs to examine his conscience - if he had anything about him he would retract some of his bile without further delay and apologise -whatever happened to responsible journalism Henry 👍🙏💙⚽ Ctwd

[Blue Mooner @Mancity_dreamer]

@UtdLifers No Etihad denied they took money in the form of a subsidy from the Abu Dhabi government. They fully admitted that they took equity and commercial loans from them as a Government owned entity.

[Marrinan @banjaxer]

Man City are charged with putting too much money into the club, attracting some of the best players in the world and helping turn the Premier League into the biggest and most entertaining league in the world.

[Scousericey @scousericey]

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