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Your comment perfectly describes the mentality of a Man City hater. And the pride that comes with that ignorance. Like it or not, Man City is the best team in the world. The real Manchester is 💙

​@@DrDiabolical000 best club in the world? You would expect a club with limitless money to atleast be the best club in the world.

@@DrDiabolical000 you must be a plastic calling the real manchester blue. Im not a United fan but the the real manchester is red and will allways be that. City is nothing but a dirty oil cheating club.

@@DrDiabolical000 no one's denying that they're the best team in the world, it's about how they became that

Who's the insane arms dealer? I thought you guys worshipped your owners like gods?

​@@kieronparr3403 A different owner

@@kieronparr3403 So it's a bit of a weird story, the guy was Milan Mandaric who owned Pompey before selling it to an insane arms dealer, using the money to buy Leicester after they went bankrupt in the 00s. So technically Mandaric wasn't the arms dealer, he just sold Pompey to one.

I thought it was Portsmouth who went bankrupt after being passed between oligarchs and their sons, reality TV stars, arms dealers and a bloke who may not have even existed Though I think what people go on about with "prevent another Leicester" is something else. As I understand it, at some point in the late 2010s just after Leicester won the league, I feel like I heard there was a tweak to the central payment structure that gave top-end clubs more money from the PL prize pot. There's a book called The Club, which I recommend as it's very good, about the history of the Premier League and it mentioned shortly after Leicester won the league that a load of big six execs had a meeting in New York to see how they could tweak things more in their favour

The same Leicester that also broke the rules when promoted later, 4 years to punish them then were fined an impressive 4 million after raking in all that TV money. That was the one that won the EPL, they cheated then as well. This season lets buy and loan players that they cannot afford to get an advantage on over 20+ teams - its cheating and we know if it was other teams, the book would have been thrown at them. Its corruption and it stinks and English football is rife with it.

Buying overpriced players and giving them too high wages is their problem. Man utd can get away with it because they are huge. Everton not so much.

yeah it's no secret that Everton have been just about the worst run club in the Premier League in the past seasons. Fans should be directing their outrage at the owner, not the league.

exactly my point, man city never get deducted because they have been playing champions league and winning them as well which bring many commercial deal and broadcasting revenue which the likes of revenue everton never had cause they never reached where man city is today

@@maciejbala477 We have

​@maciejbala477 our owner is actively looking to sell directly because of the fan outrage though, we now have excess fan outrage to direct at whoever wants it.

Love charts🤩

Graphs > charts

oh yeah baby, show me that excel sheet

Seeing numbers get me a bit horny.

It's porn for you isn't it

yeah and if they wanted to they could band together to repeal the damn thing, but they know another portsmouth is inevetible if they dont regulated so they have to shut up and deal with it, city on the other hands seems to have god tier lawyers and friends in sporting court, but that’s another topic that is largely out of anyone’s control

@@duyanhng8430agreed

North America? Try Italy for starters. Juventus docked 15 points for accounting breaches that were insignificant compared to City's and Chelsea's.

You dont have to go to North America. Italian Federation have been so scarred by corruption, I am pretty sure if the owners even dream about spending big money that might hint at shoddy finances in their sleep, their teams will get a point deduction by the time they wake up the next day.

I used to have sympathy for the fans, but too often they've been turning a blind eye while the spending has been going on. It's hard to care about Derby fans who were cheering on their owner for getting around FFP penalties while their spending was unsustainable for example. When a team goes in to administration it's not the footballers etc who lose out, it's the local businesses the clubs had dealings with who then get stiffed on their bills, not to mention the tax authorities.

May not be legal. What would be legal would be a squad salary and purchase cap. Squad is only allowed 25 players and you have X amount to spend on wages and bonuses in any given season, plus you are only allowed to spend Y on transfers and agent fees on the entire squad.

It isnt about "Fair competition". What does that even mean? Its to stop clubs from bleeding money.

@@user-fd3hd3yy3x It's why the new names make more sense like PSR. FFP made it sound like it was meant to affect the competitive balance. More needs to be done about competitive balance, but I'm not sure anyone would like a solution since to me at least a huge problem is the Champion's League money creating a feedback loop that tends to privilege a few teams in each top division and leaves the rest behind...

@@MichaelGGarry That's basically what a salary cap is.

@CharlieyT95 It was set up to protect the big four from clubs like man city.

I am still only 12 years old, the past 15 don't count!

And abelisk

More like the entire history of the sport

I’ve just started reading the asterisk books again, they’re fantastic.

You don’t have to recognise our achievements. We just won’t recognise your clubs achievements 😉

An absolute disgrace of a video here. Freddie Adu didn't get mentioned once. This channel is going downhill fast!!!

@@sullenskulls9709 did Watmore got mentioned

He worked in Shaw like a champ, though!

@@sullenskulls9709he’s gone woke 😡

@@Thrill_HouFreddy Adu’s career didn’t pan out because of WOKE 😤

Exactly mate. Winds me up when City or Newcastle fans insist that if not for financial regs, every smaller club out there in England just needs to wait for a billionaire custodian to come in, hold their hand and walk them into the path of glory. What the last 20 years has only proved, is that the only owners out there capable of reliably bankrolling glory for newcomer big time clubs, are murky authoritarian governments like Saudi Arabia and the UAE, and uber wealthy individuals like Roman Abramovich who made their lot through their own murky means. These entities don't do for profit, they do it separate reasons like personal glory or geopolitical strategy. Roman had that goldilocks combination of ambition, passion and competence, which is a very rare thing and why Chelsea were so lucky in hindsight. It could have easily been someone else, with whom they'd be no better off. And even if someone like Roman lands on your football club, they tend to come with so much murky baggage that sh*t could suddenly hit the fan at any time, I.e. The Ukraine War, and jeapordise your club. Look at Chelsea now...a mere shadow of what they used to be. The entities out there who do it for money, like FSG, simply don't have the comparable resources to finance what Abu Dhabi or Roman invested. If they did expend the same 'investment', they'd lose money and go broke. So that just leaves you with the rest, your Hicks & Gillets, your Usmanovs, your Gaydamaks, and more, whom are walking representations of Russian Roulette with 4 loaded barrels. It just doesn't work and that's why financial regs were introduced, because it seems that these football clubs and fans don't actually know what's best for them, and need to be protected from themselves. Because with the greatest of respect to these football fans, they're simple, basic men with no financial literacy and no understanding of how all of this works.

@@nichobee I think the saddest thing is Tottenham - they would seem to be an example of a club building everything in the right way, but even they have no chance of competing with the clubs funded by the super-rich. It's scary though how fans equate owner's wealth with a club asset - they seem to think that subsidy is OK, and maybe it is until it gets withdrawn and the club has to make up the shortfall. Not to mention how the same fans calling for clubs to spend more then get upset when ticket prices go up to try and cover some of the costs of the salaries...

I'm an Everton fan too and have never seen an explanation of how we got sanctioned twice in one season?What the second one was for?

@@mattjames6349 For two different 3 year periods? That was obvious.

You wouldn't be saying that if your club was desolved and even if it was given a rebirth it still would've taken it a decade to get somewhere

And the financial overspending doesn't necessarily in FA Cup wins and success in the short term. Look at Derby as an example.

@@muneebahmad4378 Yeah, I'm not arguing that financial mismanagement is a good thing. Just pointing out that something which seems so negative can have positive aspects.

@jamesduffy7549 It was brought in to stop man city.

@@mancuniangamecat8288 yes because it was too late to stop chelsea. Chelsea had bought their way into the establishment at this point and they didn't want man city doing to them what they did to liverpool and arsenal

Chelsea was a regular in the top 4 since 1996, why is this ignored and compared to City?

@@Freestyle80 Not to mention winning a couple of FA Cups, a League Cup and a UEFA Cup Winners Cup in that period from 1996-2003, as well as a Community Shield and a UEFA Super Cup. But yeah, it is frustrating that Chelsea's immediate pre-Abramovich years are glossed over and people think that Abramovich buying them just put them at the sharp end out of nowhere when in fact they'd established themselves as a decent force to be reckoned with, particularly when it came to winning cups.

​@@Freestyle80They were a decent team, but Chelsea fans seem to overbloat how good they were. These were their best days untill that point in their history.

yeah but when punishment get entangled with literal state owners and sportwashing, seems like certain clubs are exempt if they find themselves a willing and competent accountant

@@duyanhng8430 And lawyers who only care about winning.

Ok so i buy 15 world class players in a summer. Get a transfer ban. Who cares? Already done my business. This was chelseas thinking. Due to the dodgy deal under abramovich that was unearthed in the takeover.

salary cap based on revenue should be implemented imo, also sharing revenue more dispersely

But they all have drafts and can’t buy all the best young talent. Usually the worst and cheapest teams get those players

That take already doesn't make sense

@@dylanb.117 it does when you consider they wouldn't want the political embarrisment it would cause

yeah powerful lawyers and judges who can be bribe goes a long way, espescially in a criminal case with such high stakes. Maybe if the us owners felt cheated they could go and lobby their own gov to pressure it but seems like the us is cozying up with oil folks anyway, comme si comme sa

Unlike City's owners, the British Royal family have little actual power. As Alfie points out however, we are geopolitical allies. I have no doubt arms are being twisted at the diplomatic level.

FFP was brought in before city was even considered top six.

@@mancuniangamecat8288False. FFP came in in 2014, 3 years after city began qualifying for the champions league

​@@tombardsley3081 The concept of FFP was established by UEFA in 2009 and implemented at the start of the 2011/12 season. At least get your facts right before trying to say someone is wrong.🤦

@@mancuniangamecat8288 this isn't uefa ffp. This is the Premier League's and EFL ffp which wasn't implemented until 2013/14 so my original statement was correct (I was a year out). And still, man city finished 5th in 09/10 and 3rd in 10/11 so back to back top 5 finishes before the 11/12 title win

@@mancuniangamecat8288 that's why I said initially the big 4, but it obviously took time to implement it. In that time Man City had already managed to buy their way into the elite tier. But the ultimate goal was always to make the rich richer. The clubs at the bottom of the EPL saw it as an opportunity to mean that as they yoyo up and down that they would always have more money than those other championship squads to try to ensure they would always get back inside the 3 years.

That worked so well with Darlington.....

@@MrSniperfox29 their problem was they didn’t have bottomless pockets - so when they ran out of money they were screwed. This is just a way to force the next billionaire to spend on non players

Yes yes it does