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- Sep 25, 2021
Time to collect some hats and trash cans.
The scandal does already make the Premiere League look bad because of the scale of City's fuckery. City systematically cheated for a decade -and that would assume they would have stopped cheating after the 2017/18 season- and nobody ever noticed which seems weird because City broke rules that were introduced after Chelsea went apeshit with their finances. No red flags were ever raised by what City has done. The whole cheating and investigation only started bc one Portuguese guy hacked the whole football and financial world and leaked it. That's where the bad look starts.
Given the sheer scale of Man City's fuckery here is what has to be the punishment at least:
- nullify all trophies City won in that time span
- kick City out of the top league and banish them in the 4th or 5th league or ever lower
- have them start the next ten seasons (at least) with a 10 point deduction every season (at least)
- force the sheiks out of the club (!)
- force City to pay reparations to other clubs (at least on national level)
The journo is wrong tho bc there is no fine line to walk. Man City as the club it is today needs to be absolutely destroyed and burned to the ground because the League set standards with other clubs and what City did goes waaaaaaaaaaay beyond that. If Man City doesn't get buttfucked dry and without lube the League looks weak but if they do destroy the club the reputational damage is also there bc they had to fucking destroy one of their flagship clubs. How would that not be a shitty look?
Remember Tour de France and Lance Armstrong? They are only recovering slowly. The financial blows the Tour took were massive.
Calciopoli was the beginning of the end of Serie A being a top league. More clubs were involved there but it also mostly only impacted what happened within the Italian league. City's fuckery goes beyond national borders. Champions League is more important financially today than it was back then during Calciopoli. City is also the flagship club of one of the biggest mulit-club-ownership groups today. What sort of fuckery happens in other clubs and other leagues that belong to this group?
The political ramifactions are much bigger than during Calciopoli bc again it mainly affected what happened within Italy. It already started with the English Prime Minister giving (stupid) statements about the situation. If the Abu Dhabis were this shady within the world of football how shady are all their deals in the city of Manchester? Companies from the Emirates put a lot of money into England. Companies that are all intertwined with the royal family of the Emirates which are also the owners of Man City.
Also the financial levels that we see here being involved in the Premier League are way beyond that of Calciopoli back then. We are talking about millions versus billions.

