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The Premier League’s Independent Commission has ruled Manchester City “guilty” on 114 of the 115 charges of financial rule breaches brought against the club. The charges include allegations that City failed to disclose the full amount of payments made to managers and players, among other things, and in the worst case the club could even be expelled from the league. On the forum, skepticism — “this has been said for over ten years, so the actual punishment will probably be light” — clashed with predictions that “this time it’ll really be a relegation-level punishment for breaking the salary cap,” while the 2020 precedent, when UEFA’s sanctions against City were overturned by CAS, also became a point of debate.
England’s Premier League Independent Commission has ruled that Manchester City broke the league’s financial rules. Going forward, the club could face expulsion from the league in the worst-case scenario.
Manchester City was charged with 115 breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules, including failing to fully disclose payments made to managers and players, and had been under investigation by the league’s Independent Commission.
According to the sports news site The Athletic, the Commission found City guilty on 114 of the 115 charges.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here
What people said
When are they actually going to face judgment?
Somehow some mysterious force always kicks in and they get off scot-free every single time.
This one's gonna get swept under the rug too, just watch.
Japanese fans have zero interest in this.
Easy.
They can bend it however they like — just like how the J.League (mockingly called the "tax league," since so many of its stadiums run on public money) fudges its own stadium criteria.
That case only got thrown out because the evidence was obtained improperly and ruled inadmissible — the evidence itself still showed City's wrongdoing.
He's on a long-term contract, isn't he?
Took me a second, lol.
Oh — you mean it ends up looking like a rounded version of the katakana "コ" (´ ・ω・｀)
👌 So, like this?
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jul/08/premier-league-clubs-pre-tax-losses-2024-25-deloitte-annual-review-football-finance
The financial services firm expects revenue to flatten out over the next few years, and in some cases decline, with Bridge warning that simply adding more matches to an already packed schedule won't be a solution.
Premier League clubs are bracing for a major drop in commercial revenue. Ahead of the 2026-27 season, when gambling companies pull out of shirt-front sponsorships, losses are estimated at £80 million ($107.5 million).
This decline follows a voluntary agreement reached between the clubs and the UK government in 2023 to remove gambling-related branding from the chest area of shirts, set to take effect by the end of this season.
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The Premier League is finished
Online casino sponsors are getting blocked, revenue's dropping
Everyone's deep in the red, even Man United's carrying about 200 billion yen in debt
Some Arab oil company will probably just buy them out.
Saudi Arabia isn't pouring money into sports like it used to — they've got a war on their hands and other priorities now. They're even selling off their domestic football league to private buyers bit by bit.
And just the other day a pipeline on the Red Sea route got blown up, so they're pretty rattled too.
Look at Barcelona, they're still cruising along just fine.
Does he get knocked off his pedestal as one of the greatest managers ever?
Bayern and Barcelona alone are already enough to call him one of the greatest ever.
・Bayern
・A Barcelona side with Messi, Xavi, and Iniesta
・A City side cheating with oil money and rule violations
When you think about it that way, seems like pretty much anyone could've won titles there — not just Pep.
That's Abramovich, the former Chelsea owner, you're thinking of.
City is owned by the royal family of Abu Dhabi.
It's not match-fixing, so a punishment severe enough to actually relegate them isn't realistic.
This is basically a salary-cap breach, so relegation is a very realistic outcome.
If anything, it's a bigger deal than match-fixing.
A record-breaking fine plus a points deduction just small enough to keep them out of the second division — that's the realistic outcome.
There's a limit to how much you can harass a club.
That's not fair.
Look who's talking — this club's been pulling shady stuff for years.
It was the club that kept dodging the investigation and dragging things out.
If they'd actually cooperated, this would've been settled two years ago.
Seriously a dirty club.
Serie A's finished if they don't get relegated for that.
Wait, Juventus did it again?
How is that club not disbanded by now, they're worse than the mafia.
Arsenal's been a big-spending club themselves ever since Kroenke took over.
Background and Key Points of This Debate
This case centers on the Premier League’s Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR), and the 115 charges cover a wide range of allegations, including failing to fully disclose payments made to managers and players. Where opinions on the forum split was over whether this time will finally bring a substantive punishment — many voiced skepticism, pointing to the 2020 precedent in which UEFA’s ban on City from European competition was overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). It’s worth noting, though — a point that’s easy to miss — that the CAS ruling didn’t declare City “innocent”; it overturned the ban on procedural grounds, because the evidence had been obtained improperly and couldn’t be admitted. Also, this is still only the first-stage ruling from the Independent Commission — the actual sentence (a points deduction or fine, or in the worst case relegation or expulsion) will be decided in further proceedings. This case is often confused with Juventus’s match-fixing scandal, but this is a financial rules violation — a different kind of case entirely.
*This article is an excerpt and summary of a 5ch (Geisokuho+) thread, “[Football] Man City could be expelled from the Premier League in the worst case — ruled guilty of financial rule violations.”
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