From when City started cheating & financial doping, they have raked in approximately £3.3 billion in prize money & have spent £3.6 billion on transfers.
The poisonous tree which was facilitated by £3.8 billion in commercial 'revenue', which was not as real as they made out thanks to years of financial doping.
It isn't a chicken or egg proposition, none of it exists without the cheating which paved the way for Toure, Aguero, De Bruyne, Rodri, Pep & co.
False accounting is a crime, fraud is a crime, false statements are a crime. No different to stealing, the prize money & trophies were stolen & built on lies.
@thecitydefender Care to explain how you "earned" it?? Or are you city fans now support corruption to further your cause. I guess no morality exists anymore.
🚨 BREAKING: Manchester City’s ongoing legal battle could now have consequences reaching beyond the Premier League, with the case potentially putting fresh pressure on Britain’s relationship with the UAE.
Khaldoon Al Mubarak’s position is drawing particular attention given his influence in both Manchester City and Abu Dhabi’s wider economic and political network.
The ramifications could therefore stretch well beyond the pitch, touching diplomatic, investment and commercial interests between the UK and UAE.
(MiguelDelaney)
This club belongs to the fans, not the billionaires treating it like their personal cash machine.
We’ve had enough of the debt, the excuses and the endless incompetence. Different owners but the same problem.
GLAZERS & INEOS OUT.
We’re not stopping until we get our Manchester United back.
😫 "It matters massively!"
😤 "It would have impacted us brilliantly [if Newcastle got UCL football]!"
Alan Pardew explains how #MCFC's guilty verdict impacts his career and #NUFC's history! 👀
Graeme Souness on the Manchester City charges:
“The legacy is gone. If it goes the wrong way for them, they’ll be consigned to history as cheats, and whatever they did, whatever they won in that period, should not count.
“There’s an argument for Liverpool to have a couple of Premier Leagues given to them. For City to be stripped of whatever they’ve won in that period of time… money’s not an issue for them, so whatever fine they get is just a scratch on the surface. Relegation [as an option]… I don’t know.
“But I come back to it. I think this is going to open a can of worms, which I think may go well beyond the realms of football.”
[@wearetrackradio] #LFC
@SimplyUtd Of course LB is needed but grow up. We didn't drop 10 points for just an LB. We had to replace Casemiro, and for that we needed 2 MFs who would combined, should have showcased Casemiro's skills. We signed Santos and Baleba, 1 doesn't make the starting 11, and the other is injured
💣🔴 — Patrice Evra responds to Elliot Anderson claiming Manchester City are now bigger than Manchester United: 🎯🚨
🚨🎙️ “After everything that has happened over the last few days, I think Elliot Anderson will now understand why Manchester City were always trying to get close to Manchester United — not the other way around.
🗣️ when Manchester City end up playing in the Championship next season, maybe then Anderson will understand the difference between having a successful period full of corruption and carrying the history, tradition and global weight of Manchester United. You don’t become bigger than United just because you win trophies for a few years through corruption.
🗣️ Manchester United built their name through generations of hard work, legendary players, great managers and unforgettable moments. That history cannot simply be erased because another club enjoyed a dominant era of corruption.
🗣️ So honestly, I can’t wait to see Anderson experience the Championship next season. 😂😂 Maybe after 45 games down there, he’ll finally understand what it means to respect Manchester United! 🔴🤣”
You know what….. Man City fans instead of getting personal and typing attacks at me, how about hold your hands up and take accountability and go yeah we f@#%ed up and breached some rules.
Actually keyboard warriors I’ll go 1 better. DM me your email, I’ll send you a link and we have a 5 min debate LIVE on kick. Fascinating to see what you got to say and how you defend it. Then you can abuse me to my face if you must
OLIVER HOLT: How do we stop the Man City scandal from ever happening again? It's simple, the Premier League MUST ban nation states from owning our clubs https://t.co/6FPUOJXQKV
It’s really quite hard to overstate the extent to which any judgment on Manchester City is an indirect judgment on Abu Dhabi and UAE. Here’s a chart we made @TheAthleticFC in 2022 underlining where the power lies and just how powerful the Man City chairman is.
Across the nine seasons they were accused of not providing accurate information, Manchester City spent £1.943billion on wages, over £100m more than any other English club. In 17 Abu Dhabi-controlled years to the end of 2024-25, their combined wage bill was £4.963bn.
At Manchester United and Chelsea, the next-highest combined bills in England, the figure is around £600m lower. It is a staggering difference.
Since 2009-10 (the first season the charges relate to), the Premier League has dished out more than £6bn in merit payments to 42 different clubs. City received £559.6m (9%).
They have played in the Champions League every year from 2011-12 onwards, achieving qualification in eight of the nine years the charges spanned.
Such qualification naturally means others missed out. On that particular measure, Tottenham Hotspur were worst hit, landing one spot outside of the Champions League on four occasions during that spell. Their Europa League earnings from those occasions totalled a combined £28.8million; City made £141m from the Champions League in the same seasons.
It is not just those fighting for titles or European spots who may feel they’ve missed out. What of the beaten cup finalists? What of the clubs who might have avoided relegation if City’s results were scrubbed out?
📝 @CWeatherspoon_
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🚨BREAKING : Indian Express launches surgical strike on Dictator MODI🔥🔥
Modi's government is so scared of your posts, it's deleting them faster than you can type 😡
The Indian Express got the data. Between March and July 2026, nearly 1.95 lakh blocking orders went to Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.
That's around 1,275 every single day. One every 68 seconds.
A year earlier, the same Home Ministry portal sent about 6 orders a day. Six.
And when the story came out, the government's own "clarification" made it worse. It said the real number was nearly 2.98 lakh.
One order can cover hundreds of posts and accounts. Meta has plugged its system straight into the Home Ministry's portal, so flagged posts can disappear without any human even reviewing them.
Bro, my cousin posted a video of the broken road outside his house. Next morning it was gone. No reason, no notice. Now he doesn't post anything 😢
That's what they want. Today it's a meme, tomorrow it's your son's complaint about a paper leak.
Modi ji, 56 inch chest, but scared of a 6 inch phone screen? 🔥🔥
Gabby Agbonlahor has ripped into Manchester City and the damage they did to Aston Villa between 2009 and 2018
City have been found guilty on all but one of the 115 charges relating to breaches of the Premier League’s financial regulations
#avfc went on to be relegated in 2016 and Agbonlahor has levelled part of the blame at #mcfc
"I played in that era, 2009 to 2018. We got relegated in 2016, for six seasons I played in it You know what they did in 2009? They took our best player, Gareth Barry.
"You know what they did in 2010? They took our best player, James Milner. You know what they did in 2014? They took our best player, Fabian Delph.
"As a Villa player in that era. a bunch of cheaters have taken our best players, we've gone to the Etihad and got some spankings from Yaya Toure, Sergio Aguero and David Silva, where did they get the money from to buy these players?"
😡 "The club should be stripped from the owners!"
😡 "I don't like how they think they can rock into English football and do what they want!"
Simon Jordan launches angry rant against #MCFC's ownership after guilty verdict news! 😤
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