working away on their goal difference.
A draw at Tottenham and an easy 4-0 win against West Ham will see them lift the title as we labour to a 1-0 win against Everton.
They really do leave no stone unturned...
working away on their goal difference.
A draw at Tottenham and an easy 4-0 win against West Ham will see them lift the title as we labour to a 1-0 win against Everton.
They really do leave no stone unturned...
If I were nasty, petty and vindictive (though I am actually nasty AND both petty and vindictive so perhaps I ought to say, had I more TIME to be nasty, petty and vindictive) I would argue it's high time the Premier League got its act together and relegated everyone at Manchester City to the Scottish Division.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maravilloso Marvo
I know what'll happen though; they'll give them an enormous, pointless fine in return for assurances that those individuals responsible for the double-dealing are no longer at the club, plus all the receipts. The authorities will be working this case for years.
They ARE a decent side though, to be fair :-\
It's infuriating, Forest and Everton have not only had their cases heard and punishments handed out but they've also had their appeals sorted and yet 115 FC are still going on their merry way with nothing happening. :furious:Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
The difference is that city spent a fortune planning how to get around these rules. They will have made it virtually impossible to prove with the paper trail covered at every turn.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
They'll get off, and everybody knows it.
And what’s wrong with the idea of perhaps cherry picking 4 or 5 of the more obvious offences, prosecuting those more expediently and deferring the rest to a future date ?Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Right. That's exactly what's been happening with all the big banking and money-laundering cases. But the more serious the case, the more time it will take :-\Quote:
Originally Posted by 7sisters
We deserve another title, P. Mikel especially. Jürgen Klopp does too, to be fair. **** Manchester City.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
So, a corporate sponsor decides to pay 80 million a year to have their logo on the sole of the right sock of their training gear. The sponsor is a company in an Emirate with no obvious ties to the owners. The holding companies that own the equity of the sponsor all eventually trace to a series of offshore accounts..... the trail goes dead. No proof of wrongdoing, so much of corporate funding is complex, rules unclear etc etc etc......Quote:
Originally Posted by 7sisters
On to the next offence.......
Let us assume they are just as clever, just as organised, just as dedicated, just as brilliant off the pitch as they are on it. There is no way this case will ever close.
I don't want a title we haven't won. I don't care how much they cheat off the pitch, I only want a title we have won on the pitch.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
We are so close. We can get them next year, even with the cheating.
My understanding (this could of course be complete *******s), is that a Portuguese hacker proved the links and supplied the information to the relevant parties. Citeh's defence will be, he could just have easily put the information there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
We’ll only threaten them next year buy improving the squad and not doling out new contracts on players who aren’t good enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
The hangover from the Wenger years was the root cause of our last fall from grace. Too many average players rewarded with expensive contracts.
The Jorginho renewal I accept, as it appears his value off the pitch equates to the handful of appearances on it.
Partey needs to go. He gets robbed far too often and another year won’t improve him either.
ESR was farked the moment we signed Odegaard but the club could secure a decent fee for him in the summer. I’d still keep Jesus for his trickery but Nketiah needs to move on, although his ridiculous contract won’t make that easy.
Nelson, gone. Zinny, gone. Ramsdale, gone.
A top midfielder and forward must be the priority ?
I think we are good enough, with a few stronger squad options. What has cost us this season is the period up to Christmas where Raya was still all over the shop and we were fielding the Chelsea Havertz in midfield. Now that we have a decent keeper, a solid range of midfield options in place and the Arsenal Havertz up front we are a different side.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7sisters
We lost the title at home to Fulham, Spurs and West Ham, and away to Chelsea, Villa, Newcastle and Fulham, all in the first half of the season. The side we are now would win half of those games at the very least.
Or that he gained access to it illegally. Or any number of other things.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
With the right lawyers it could go on for years.
As I've said before 1 point from 12 vs Fulham and Villa cost us. Not least because of the performances, most of the other games we dropped points, we played well enough to get something from.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
True. And City were 'there for the taking' this season. They are only going to finish on 91 points which isn't that impressive, for them.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
(I know they finished on 89 last season but that is because they didn't need to win the last two. Had we pushed them, they would have finished on 94).
What is clear is you can't go into January trailing because you simply won't catch them. We need to start well, get in front and stay there, as Liverpool did in the only season City didn't win the title in the last 7 years.
City will win 5 in a row and Pep will **** off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
It is written.
Well it needs to be unwritten! :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by IUFG
Yes, Rui Pinto.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
Everything on the internet leaves a digital paper trail though. Investigators might not think it important enough to hunt down; it's only soccerball, after all. The details relevant to the AFC and Premier League etc. will be rolled up in other ongoing cases.
Will take 20 or 30 years. They'll find Jimmy Hoffa before they find City guilty of anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Everyone saying that the FA, PL will let it slide or be lenient, let's not forget that they've pushed for this and mostly because of City's sheer unwillingness to be cooperative with them.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
The other thing about Jorgy is this.Quote:
Originally Posted by 7sisters
If we bought a young, long-term Jorgy replacement with bags of potential - a Mudryk Jorgy - ideally we'd start him during his first season in the easier games, but might keep him on the bench for the Big 6 sides.
The thing about Jorgy is he can sit on the bench in the easier games where we play Dec as DM and a Havertz {or ESR or Fab etc} as the left 8 in a 4-1-4-1 but when we have the hard games, Jorgy can come in and play top of his game despite it being his first start in a month.
i.e. the total opposite.
It's almost like will buy a new young DM, and make him Dec's backup or the DM with Dec at 8, but for the first season, start Jorgy in the hard games.
I normally hate players we sign from the Chavs but I love Jorgy and Kai and GG {him, not me} and John Hollins. Jorgy was a very astute buy. So glad he's signing for an extra year. Would love him to stay beyond that, do his coaching badges, become MA's assistant and in a decade or two, manage us to a 13-0 win at Stamford Bridge, breaking our 12-0 Loughborough record.
Maybe the existence of the allegations was made public inadvertently, you know by an anonymous source/trouble maker/whistleblower? I mean, if the powers-that-be would rather the whole thing was swept under the carpet.Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
In the meantime they'll quietly punish executives that used to work for them. Anyway, that seems to be the pattern.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Cannot stress enough, this is bigger than mere football.
Don't forget that Loughborough dicked us 8-0 four years earlier at their place :old:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
I knew we lost there 8-0 and won 12-0 at home. Didn't know they were 4 years apart. That's quite some turn around. When did Chelsea last hammer us, how many years before us winning 5-0 the other week?Quote:
Originally Posted by pjlincs
6-0 at the Bridge about 10 years ago :-\Quote:
Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult
AW's 1,000th game :-\Quote:
Originally Posted by pjlincs
You’re a specialist in failure,Quote:
Originally Posted by PSRB
You know what you are :cry: