“We’ll pretend we are angry and you pretend you’re sorry”

The fact uefa rules essentially say, if you can hide it long enough, you can break any rules, is crazy.

pep: condemns FA for chelsea exploiting FFP loophole FA: is this guy challenging our judgment?? let's take a look at man city's books

Breaking the rules 100 times is crazy

All 24 City fans are going to be devastated with this.

Manchester City statement says “We only broke the rules 100 times, what’s the problem”.

As a plastic city fan, I have to say I'm devastated with what the club has done here

What a shame, I guess the only fair thing to do is punish AC Milan for this

I guarantee if City are found guilty they'll be no points deduction. They'll just pay their way out of this and the Premier League will gladly accept a nice juicy cheque. 🙄😂

Fun fact: If Man City get a 15 point deduction like Juventus did..They would still be above Liverpool...

Was anyone else just like "NO! Surely not?!" 😂

100+ breaches is crazy…

Worst kept secret in football is finally being talked about properly.

I was amazed at how still the reporter kept while talking, I swear he didn’t even move his mouth once

That's why Pep said he doesn't care about the Prem Title, he already knew...

Breaking rules for a decade is insane for City not to mention they also established the multi clubs ownership across 5 continents. Chelsea, Barcelona and maybe PSG are next on the list of FFP investigations.

Erling haaland about to score 100 goals in the championship next season 😂

I really liked that scene where City's lawyers suit up and say: "It's lawyerin' time!" And then completely wiped all charges. Chills.

2009? So basically the start of their spending. And we're only finding out about it now.

As a UTD fan, I would feel like possibly going above city because of a points deduction would feel like it took something away from us doing it properly, but if City have been cheating like that while winning cups etc all this time then even that punishment would be light tbh. Also, Pretty unfair to put Pep’s face on the thumbnail since pretty sure he is not the owner of City.

Title strip, massive points deduction and harsh transfer embargo

Unfortunately the chances are they will get away with it again

Wow over 100 violations, thats even more than their fans

Man City fans will be gutted by this,but I’m sure they’ll just go back and support the team they did before 💁

I'm surprised the FA haven't concluded the matter sooner, a strecth spanning such time-period from 2009-2018 is damning. Might as well call it an oversight on the FA's part. Retrospective action won't yield any positive results for all concerned as that will only damage one of their own and lucrative assets.

Well, breaking the rules 100 times does make them the Infamous Centurions

BREAKING NEWS: under Premier League rules the club will not be able to appeal any sanction to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (which overturned the UEFA ban) - Martin Ziegler

2 premier league titles should be awarded to Liverpool

What's most shocking is that it's taken this long to charge them, every man and his dog has known this for years and years.

If Juventus got a points deduction then City need the same done to them...

A 4 year investigation with 100+ breaches is mad. The Premier League must be pretty sure of a win here.

As a City fan… I have no words, and am extremely ashamed… but I will continue supporting the club, after all, our owners may be shameful, but what’s shown on the pitch is not, you may not like the club, but you cannot deny our football is beautiful, I don’t support City for the money, and because they’re the best club in the world at the moment… but I will always be a proud supporter, and say what you have to say, show hate, I don’t care. But I will continue to love the club, after all we made history… To haters, I’m 12 years old, and am Brazilian, I moved to Manchester a few years ago and it was never easy, but watching city play made my life better, watching us lift the cup helped me, and made me love football. My club in Brazil has a lot of history, but fights for relegation since I was born, I always suffer when I watch Brazil play, I was in the stadium in the semi-finals against Germany, and it was never easy. I’m not victimising myself, I’m just showing that even though I might seem like an oil club supporter, I am not, I support city because I love them. And to who wants to know, I started playing football after watching city play, fell in love with the sport, started playing, and now play under 13s for Accrington. I hope City get through this hard time, and haters… keep commenting, send us to the championship and we will be back in a few seasons.

Breaking the rules more time than you have fans 😭😭

Liverpool can really say you’ll never walk alone now 😂

Been a good weekend for UTD fan's, and a even better MONDAY!! 🤣 🔰

Congratulations to liverpool and man united on their title wins

Funny how Chelsea are doing alright with the Financial Fairplay 🤣🤣🤣

I thought this was just going to be about them getting a fine for intimidating the ref yesterday when I clicked on it. This is crazy.

Retrospective points deduction would be hilarious. But I'd say at the very least a redistribution of prize money should league positions differ. Obviously there are further implications from finishing higher up, such as CL money, recruitment and exposure, but that might be too messy. Taking off 10 points in each season they broke the rules and seeing how that affected standings would be relatively easy to calculate, although deciding how many points to deduct would be tricky. Easiest and most drastic would be to delete their results from the season and recalculate how everyone finishes with City in 20th on 0 points.

They have been saying for ages City have done this yet for years and they have never once had significant punishment. This is why loads of people said Newcastle should just spend an insane amount in the Transfer Market last summer because they would face no repercussions but City clearly paid officials to stop others from doing what they did.

It feels like the premier league is going back into its true form

As they've been investigated for financial discrepancies previously, why didn't these breaches come to light then. It just seems a little odd given the accusations they have already faced in the psst.

Funny that we are talking about man city breaking FFP but just this year other team spend 600m on transfers...

Season point deduction in 2023 for things that happened between 2013-18? Way more needs to be done

Had to wait until the 100th mark to charge city haha

So Mourinho could have won the Premiership with Man Utd instead of runner up, had Man City not cheated.

Do united and liverpool get the titles theyve been cheated out of?

We all know City will get away with a slap on the wrist, the big clubs always do, if this was a small club there would be a massive points deduction or even relegation.

Any update?

If they get sent to the Championships, KDB, Haaland, Grealish, Silva, Gundogan, Rodri, Stones, Dias, Laporte all those essential will 100% leave the club

This will really offer an astute paradigm shift on how pl teams conduct their financial transactions be it in remunerations or during transfers.But as a united fan...boy oh boy this doesn't get any better

Punishment : monetary fines, knowing they have infinite money

Retrospective points deductions from previous seasons a possibility?

Why did it take the premier league so many years to find out that Man City did shady dealings? From 2009-2018, that is a 9 year period and this just came out now?

Retrospective punishments are messy, the fairest thing is for all those involved to be given lifetime football bans and the owners forced to sell. They clearly never intended to run the club on proper terms so boot them out and move on.

That Aguero goal to snatch the league from United needs to be given to United, along with the other 2 times that United came in 2nd to City. Also Liverpool needs to be given their league tittles too. We’ve been saying this about City for years!

Surely something has to be done now. We cant keep seeing them get called out in public and nothing coming of it. They need a points deduction, relegation or stripped titles because this will be a joke if City manage to just pay thier way out of this again!.

All subchampions should be awarded each season championships

They broke more rules than they have fans

Who is shocked?? Not me. Did they not pay them enough money to have this ignored?

Can't see them deducting points for this season as it kills ratings etc with no title race. Could see stripping of titles, fine and next season point deduction

It’s hella unfair that you get teams like macclesfield town that get ridiculous punishment for doing minor offences (compared to city), whereas city will throw money at the court and get all charges dropped

How have they gotten away with this for 9 years 100 breaches

For persistently and knowingly breaking the league’s rules for nearly ten years is expulsion really over the top, I’m fairly sure if an organisation did the same thing in any other industry the company would be forced to close.

No way! City cheated? I’m shocked.

update?

I'm waiting to see that

They've had their little bit of success but now back in the championship where they belong

In the end it will turn out that only top club which was not cheating was Arsenal under Wenger, and Gunners will turn out to have won another 14 titles since 2004.

Jose might be awarded another Premier league title

I feel like clubs are owed titles for this , whoever finished second each year

Because they spent hundreds of millions over that period without selling anyone for big money. City must have been expecting this considering how many players they sold in the summer.

My mate is a city fan, i know for a fact his season ticket only cost £5.50 and a packet of pickled onion monster munch. Rumours are next season they might pay you to show up!

I used to pray for times like this

I am sure they will buy their way out. Personally I would fine them 10 - 15 points deducted from whatever total they got each year they cheated. Might cost them the odd title.

Doesn't matter how these crimes came to light. They need punishing heavily.

Where are all my United fans who are enjoying this 🙏🏽

I assume things came to light in more recent periods, but just wondering: did it take them like 14 years to go from investigating to taking action? Can we expect Chelsea to be investigated for FFP in 2037? Pretty crazy how big clubs get away with it so easily for years on straight.

You have to ask what was Pogba doing in all of this

Is this Guardiola's last season in the PL?

So what had been common knowledge for every football fan the last 5 years is just now being admitted by the footballing higher ups

100 times in 9 years is basically every transfer during that time

Broke the rule more times than the amount of fans they have

This will never happen to Levy and tottenham....so tight

The nature of the City statement suggests that they are confident regarding the outcome.

10 year transfer ban, it covers the length of time they got away with this for.

They have to have a points deduction this is ridiculous

Brendan Rodgers will be a Premier League winning manager 😭

Why is this only coming out years later?

League 1 playoffs with Gillingham doesnt look too far away! City fans should enjoy their success while it lasts.

They’ll probably just get off with another 20k fine 😂

Ole and Jose coming back to collect their premier league trophy that was robbed of them cheats

They have left it abit late if it’s been happening for 9 seasons

Why, if this goes back x amount of years are they only doing something about it now?

Whenever Klopp makes a comment on this it’s “why’s he always crying”

As an Arsenal fan..i can say..deduct those points!!🤣

It's not like they break rules 1000 times. It's only 100 times.

A points deduction would be stupid considering it was from 2008 the only fair option for all clubs is to drop them from the league

As much as I, a Liverpool fan, hates City, I find it stupid how they are more focused on this than all these stupid signings that Chelsea made in Jan. Anyway, City will just buy themselves out of it as always. It’s so stupid tho, punishing teams that spend to much by making them spend more.

Take those leagues titles and give them to whoever finished 2nd