Super League and cheating by ManCity and PSG

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Super League representatives say they have twenty teams who've said yes and are ready to start September 2025.

 

[BMann]

Fair play rule is pretty dumb and shouldn't exist. Teams like PSG and City are good to not rich clubs as they create bid wars with other giants for players making them more expensive which helps the clubs that really produce the talent that makes the sport great. I don't think any of the big European clubs are 100% clean, either. If some rich sheik wants to 'waste' his money in football we should let him do it, imo.

Clubs in South America and Africa get ripped off. As with Echeverri and Alvarez a club like River Plate should be wallowing in.monry but they are not. Instead clubs in Pottugal earn huge mark ups.

Domestically the parasite six steal academy kids from.other clubs for a pittance as they've bent the rules to suit themselves and consolidate their grip on the game. My club has lost 8 academy kids in 3 years for a pittance.

 

[Jussi]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1797999246081200238

Paywall but screenshots in this thread here: City and Financial Doping | Charged by PL with numerous FFP breaches

While The Times knows of at least one club that has submitted a witness statement in support of City for next week’s arbitration hearing, sources believe more than half have sided with the Premier League.

Gee, I wonder what club from Newcastle could this be...?

 

[Scandale du Jour]

They have balls

Time for the FA to send them to the 6th division or dissolve the club.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

They seem worried. I hope this means that they are deemed guilty of a number of those charges against them.

 

[Albatros]

 

[Chimaera]

I wish the other clubs would have the stones to not take the illicit cash and just dissolve the club.

 

[Jussi]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1798018186492961049

Also:

"City blame the Premier League for not regulating spending when clubs such as Manchester United were more dominant, arguing they have been prevented from monetising their brand in the way United did. City also say the rules penalise clubs who have “lower-profile sporting histories”.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1798018186492961049

Not only state-linked, but state-linked that control a very important ressource and can basically use that fact to have the local governments interfere on their behalf.

 

[Jovavic]

So they have 115 violations? The average deduction per is...three points, maybe? So 345 points? I'd stagger that out over four seasons (100 for the first three and 45 for the other), guaranteeing they'll go down even if they win all their domestic games. They'll crash into League Two and have to fight back up. So, really, the penalty will last for years and they'll have to play entire seasons knowing they'll be demoted, the team will become so toxic.

 

[Jussi]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1797954048009883892

 

[hatterson]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1798018186492961049

Also:

I also laughed at their claim that it’s fine if related parties pay inflated sponsorships because even if the owners of City change the companies will be happy to keep paying the inflated sponsorships and it wouldn’t put the team at financial risk.

 

[Jersey Fresh]

I also laughed at their claim that it’s fine if related parties pay inflated sponsorships because even if the owners of City change the companies will be happy to keep paying the inflated sponsorships and it wouldn’t put the team at financial risk.

It's such a bonkers line of logic all the way around, that I would seriously question the lawyers that filed this lawsuit. What are the SLAPP laws like in the UK?

 

[Jussi]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1798031913481060648

 

[Savant]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1797954048009883892

Multinational banks have ties to terrorist funding. More news at 11

 

[hatterson]

Multinational banks have ties to terrorist funding. More news at 11

Also, worst case is Liverpool find a new shirt sponsor, which they could easily do at roughly the same price because their contract is at market rate.

It’s not like Liverpool is accused of funding terrorists themselves.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1797954048009883892

Joe Lewis giving his pilot some insider info for a few hundred grand seems quaint

 

[JeffreyLFC]

Multinational banks have ties to terrorist funding. More news at 11

It's a bad look for LFC but at the sametime they are not the FBI/CIA they cannot investigate all their sponsorship for wrongdoing like that. They should do their due diligence and consider changing their kit sponsor if the allegation are validated though.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Joe Lewis giving his pilot some insider info for a few hundred grand seems quaint

Standard Chartered don't own Liverpool.

 

[luiginb]

Yeah that Liverpool thing is a non-story. So their corporation is evil, as opposed to all the other non-evil corporations? haha Also teams have played with Emirates and Qatar on their shirts ffs

 

[Savant]

It's a bad look for LFC but at the sametime they are not the FBI/CIA they cannot investigate all their sponsorship for wrongdoing like that. They should do their due diligence and consider changing their kit sponsor if the allegation are validated though.

If they want to dump Standard Chartered they can get another sponsor. I could not be less arsed

 

[Chimaera]

Might actually make more. CL and higher tv share means more cash.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

Standard Chartered don't own Liverpool.

I know this

 

[IU Hawks fan]

Wasn't there already some controversy about Standard Chartered a few years ago?

 

[Savant]

Wasn't there already some controversy about Standard Chartered a few years ago?

Probably