@Mouqrin@themagic_tophat@bernardooooV3 And it absolutely does matter how far you go back. Laws change in line with the times. Nation states weren’t buying clubs to gain political power 1000 years ago. City did the same for a few years when it was allowed and lied about it anyway!!!
@Mouqrin@themagic_tophat@bernardooooV3 Nation states should not own clubs. Other clubs followed rules, city did not, that’s the only pertinent issue here. The only people whose opinion matters on that are the independent panel, and they found city guilty.
@Mouqrin@themagic_tophat@bernardooooV3 Fucking bell mate are you really having to go back over 100 years to prove your point?! When we weren’t even talking about Arsenal to begin with?!?! Did Henry Norris also falsify £1bn of income from a nation state? 😂😂😂😂😂
@Mouqrin@themagic_tophat@bernardooooV3 Yeah Henry Norris in like 1910 lmao… if city owners don’t want to follow the rules then they shouldn’t own the club. Simple.
@Mouqrin@themagic_tophat@bernardooooV3 2) Dislike FFP all you want. Spending revenue you actually generate and creating sham contracts to hide state funding to circumvent the rules agreeed to by members are not remotely equivalent.
@Mouqrin@themagic_tophat@bernardooooV3 Let’s ignore how reductive it is. You can’t compare a financial advantage earned by decades of success and millions of fans with the financial advantage of daddy sheikh using you to sports wash.
@everton_toffee1 Yeah, Arsenal who didn’t win a title in 22 years, had to sell best players to Man City just to break even, made a net profit on transfers between going invincible and 2011 (when city lost 500m, Everton negative balance too) are the blame for the fact you spend £40m on Dibling?
@paalston@Spike______ For the PL case yes, however the judgement mentioned they also provided false statements before FFP was in place, to save face - lying about income and costs is still cheating regardless of whether they needed to do it for FFP reasons
@BigStuA84@mrdaniel989 Brother, to be clear I agree with you. The original post is misleading. Not proven is not the opposite of proven. Disproven is. CAS didn’t look at evidence and say it wasn’t happening, they didn’t have enough info to prove it was.
@alifewellred@mrdaniel989 Thing is, have you read the 40 pager by the indie panel? You’re absolutely correct they could have issued verdict on BoPs, but they didn’t, from reading it they seem 100% convinced. Damning.