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surviving chelsea

[milani 🍎🫧 @rappasapples]

HIRING MANAGER CALLED ME AFTER 2 WEEKS OF SILENCE AND I START WORKING MONDAY

[Pedro Rodríguez @_Pedro17_]

Siento que es el momento.

El momento para dar un paso adelante y comenzar una nueva etapa en mi vida.

Me voy orgulloso por haber vivido mi sueño y por todas las personas que estuvieron a mi lado para hacerlo realidad.

Gracias fútbol por hacerme tan feliz. ❤️⚽️

[MB @CouldbeBoogie]

Uber drivers accepting jobs and being nowhere near you is really becoming a problem

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

It was a seemingly innocuous email, sent on a Wednesday morning in January 2017, that started everything.

Arriving in the inbox of a senior official at Manchester City, it appeared to have been sent by an employee from European football’s governing body, UEFA, and contained a link to a financial compliance report.

The City official clicked the download button. That was all it took.

It was not a genuine email from UEFA but a successful phishing attempt by Portuguese hacker and activist Rui Pinto. City’s servers were breached, allowing Pinto to retrieve thousands of emails and documents from the club’s systems.

This week, almost 10 years on from Pinto’s first email, the Premier League announced that an independent panel had found City guilty of all but one of the charges against them, as The Athletic first revealed last Friday.

📝 @jwhitey98: https://t.co/iZ74j9gKJE

[❤︎ @kennyfa_]

😂😂

[sereens💋 @pimpmommy444]

your mates are detecting bombs and cocaine you’re busy sniffing yam. nonsense dog

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

**EXCLUSIVE**

Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak met a senior UK government minister to discuss the UAE’s investments in Britain just days before the club’s guilty verdicts were announced.

Al Mubarak asked to meet Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds on 14 September in his capacity as CEO of Mubadala Investment Company, the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, sources tell Bloomberg.

The pair held a private meeting in Downing Street on that date, the people said. Al Mubarak talked about current and future UAE investment in Britain, they said.

The conversation covered the full range of the relationship including defence, security, intelligence and trade, they said.

Eleven days later, on 25 September, the Athletic reported Man City had been found guilty of breaking Premier League rules.

On 29 September, the Premier League confirmed Manchester City had been found guilty of artificially boosting its balance sheet by more than £900 million.

The fact of the meeting so close to the verdict will raise further questions about the UK government’s handling of the case.

Andy Burnham has faced criticism, including from his own ministers and officials, after he publicly suggested Man City’s Abu Dhabi owners should not be disqualified from running the club because of the investment they bring to Britain.

Earlier, Bloomberg reported that Emirati officials have warned the UK government that the severity of the ruling could undermine their appetite for future grand-scale commitments in Britain.

https://t.co/kEZiAWiFEV

[City Xtra @City_Xtra]

Emirati officials have warned the UK government that the severity of ruling on #ManCity could undermine their appetite for future grand-scale UK commitments, and consider the Premier League’s actions to have an influence on the bilateral state relationship.

UK government officials are equally frustrated by the conduct of UAE counterparts and believe some in the Gulf nation must have been aware of the extent of @ManCity’s wrongdoing, even while insisting there was nothing untoward.

[via @business]

[Polymarket FC @PolymarketFC]

🚨 JUST IN : 15 out of 20 Premier League clubs would need to vote in favor of EXPELLING Manchester City.

Club executives would be STAGGERED if this happened; one called it “commercial suicide”.

[@SkySportsNews]

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

Come on City.

[City Xtra @City_Xtra]

UK Prime Minister, @andyburnham: “I'd be really concerned to lose them [#ManCity's owners]. They’ve been such a huge partner in the building of modern Manchester. Obviously, the building of Manchester City into the global force that it is.

"I can’t intervene more in the process. It'd be wrong to do that. It'd be wrong to jump to a conclusion before having really studied all the detail, but obviously it’s ongoing, and because it’s still contested by Manchester City, I think it’s right that I don’t say much more..." [via @BBCNews/@TimesSport]

[Manchester City @ManCity]

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[Joel @joellikesthis]

What a ride it has been for people who became City fans because they were charmed by Haaland at the world cup.

[Brodie @CFCBrowdz]

Maresca snaked the club just to find himself in the middle of the biggest corruption scandal the sport has EVER seen. Couldn’t have happened to a better bloke.

[Sky News @SkyNews]

"Do you apologise to football fans? The Premier League says 'sham' contracts, is this a 'sham' club?"

@RobHarris questions Man City chief executive Ferran Soriano after the club was found guilty of all charges related to Premier League's financial rules

https://t.co/3A2kYsOcCZ

[Manchester City @ManCity]

Club statement.

🔗 https://t.co/yrJ8Z0A52Y

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨 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)

[Mehti @mehtiug]

Doğduğun ev kaderindir

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 SUMMARY: What we know so far about the RAF Fairford suspected bomb plot

- A farmer driving home in the early hours found three white vans blocking a village road with no one inside

- Suspicious, she immediately turned around before seeing a "group of Middle Eastern-looking young guys run off through the trees" in the direction of the air base wearing masks

- One van displayed a UK number for a company called "Fuel 2You", which is not registered on Companies House. The number also appeared to be one digit short and does not ring when called

- She immediately called 999 and five men were arrested within 25 minutes under the Explosives Act. Homes were evacuated and a major incident was declared just after 8am

- Later today, the two rear doors of two of the vans were open and large black containers could be seen scattered around with a bomb disposal robot operating next to the vans

- The five suspects were then further arrested on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act

- Counter Terror Police are understood to think that a suspected bomb plot linked to Iran is the most likely scenario due to US air bombers operating from the base

- Last night, before the incident, reports said that the base was at its highest alert with tractors blocking all gates. A local in the village said they had been stopped at gunpoint at a roadblock by a group of American soldiers, who ordered them to put their hands out of the car and identify themselves

- Donald Trump claims the US had been investigating the five suspects and had them "under view for a long time"

[Chelsea FC Women @ChelseaFCW]

LONDON IS BLUE!!!!!! 🔵

#CFCW

[🅰️ THE NEW YORK KNICKS ARE YOUR WORLD CHAMPIONS @abzMCFC___]

new mcfc home chant:
‘Come charge us, charge us again,
Come charge us, charge us again,
Come charge us, charge us again.
Think Khaldoon’ll let that slide? think again!’