Right.
Wow, a criminal doing criminal things? No way!
oh fuck off. If Chelsea spent $10bil and failed nobody would care. Why the fuck clubs with little success can’t become successful? Who cares where’s the money come from? $1 biil to football is far far better than $1 bil to guns/rpg/killing children.
Chelsea’s success will always have an asterix next to it - if they were owned by Arabs, of course.
The extent of Chelsea’s cheating and cities cheating are barely even comparable. It’s like one slapped a grandma and the other committed a genocide.
Both clubs cheated, and have caused the PL to become worse as a result
Take away those titles!
I’m not sure if anything substantial will wind up happening mostly because Clearlake have been upfront with the Premier League and self reported potential infractions.
BUT if this leads to significant punishment down the line, it will taint Abramovich’s legacy as owner. He will no longer be known as strictly the serial winner who took us to a household name. It’s not my place to adjudicate nor am I naive enough to think his image was totally clean before all of this. It’s just something to ponder. Potential punishment on top of the two transfer bans we were handed? It skews the measurements.
Hey guys, I just murdered someone. I’m being upfront though, so I guess that’s fine right?
More like I murdered one guy and admitted it. That means you can ignore the other 15 bodies right.
Not really the same but yeah that would potentially soften the sentencing
BUT if this leads to significant punishment down the line, it will taint Abramovich’s legacy as owner.
Only if it leads to titles being stripped or something. A few 10s of millions in total going to some agents here and then isn’t going to do much.
What I am curious about it is why they did so in the first place. The amounts are too little to go through all this trouble. I’m more inclined to think that his finances were such a complicated web that every now and then, money went out from the “wrong” shell companies or they simply missed it when reporting it later because it was so complicated.
Should be a stripping of titles as it was previous owners and perhaps a financial restriction to punish the gains down the line from the cheating.
Don’t think self reporting matters does it? They can still penalise the club, dock points and put a transfer ban in place.
It certainly helps, or at least should. Thought City’s tactic of denying, bribing and throwing lawyers at it seems to be working better.
Everyone already knew he was a criminal and operated the club in a shady manner. Only deluded Chelsea fans think it was done legally in any way. Not a diss but this literally doesn’t change anything, and I don’t think most Chelsea fans would care anyway, they’ve got their titles
City and Chelsea duking it out for the one direct promotion spot in the national league next season.
I always like to think what would happen if a huge club dropped to the National League. It’s worse than relegation for players because the Championship is not that bad, some players jet off but some will stay to help fight back. If City or Chelsea, hypothetically were to drop down what would they do? Would Foden or James stay at their respective clubs to stat pad in the National League? Would the entire squad have a clear out and they’d use some PL2/U21 kids in the league? It’s fascinating to think about.
Both ours and city’s academy is very strong as well so I’d imagine other PL and Championship clubs would sweep up a lot of our young players as well. End up fielding the under 8s
UAE is ‘too important’ for city to face charges atleast for now
What’s new? Every couple of months “new” information comes out about some financial transaction that some club made. Football is a cesspool of secret money transfers and underhanded dealings.
Call me when something concrete comes out or when a club is actually punished.
I’m not even sure these files were actually “leaked”. Chelsea have been reviewing the books and submitting opaque transactions as possible FFP violations to the PL since the new owners took over. Are these violations different from the ones that were self-reported?
Lmao, 20 years later: hang on a sec…
Make them give all their assets to Fulham
NOW they ask questions… not in 2004 but 2023 when the twat is gone… fucking media man asking the right questions at the wrong time just a casual 20 years too late…
cool looking forward to city being docked points in 2040
I want them to get the Juventus Calciopoli special but we all know they’ll go ‘new owners mate, nothing to do with us’ and the EPL will happily forget about it.
I don’t care he’s not the owner anymore. Now let’s talk about Man City.
It’s a bit late for that
Now we know why they signed all those players to 8 year deals. Welcome to the championship lads!