Seismic ruling by independent commission on Manchester City.
Found guilty of artificially overstating income + reducing costs by £900m between 2009-18.
“Evidence given by number of important factual witnesses on behalf of club was false in key aspects.”
https://t.co/UVTEunPjPt
The full City decision is extraordinary. An epic level of truly malevolent fraud. £830m of fake revenue.
City booked £949.94m of Abu Dhabi sponsorship over nine seasons. £119.25m of it was real. The other £830.69m was the owner's money (ADUG -> Mansour -> ultimately the Abu Dhabi dictatorship) dressed up as sponsorship.
Complete arrogance and a level of dishonesty that only comes from people who have spent their entire lives as the ruling class, with the belief they are above reproach, retribution and the rule of law.
This cannot be allowed in football.
We really can’t let it go under the radar that not only did they inflate their revenues but the way they bought players was ILLEGAL. Their squad cannot continue to exist, it must be liquidated.
@Footballera0 The ability to speed up the game and slow down the game whenever the ball is at your feet is an elite elite 1 of 1 skillset. Jude is approaching Zidane levels in 5 years