Man City Verdict - What should happen next?

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  @mrfog9791 · 1 day ago

  Joe has missed the point when trying to separate the "board" and the team. If they dont cheat then Mancini doesnt go to city, half the players they bought dont go to the club and then Pep doesnt go to City. The whole success of City is built on cheating so they dont deserve any of it.

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• NO

  @nomoreheroes93 · 1 day ago

  Joe Devine Intro Rating: a fine intro, 115/10

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• SA

  @savethetowels · 1 day ago

  My biggest problem with the sponsor is that it throws off the "I'm Joe Devine" cadence.

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• BO

  @bobp4 · 1 day ago

  My question is whether the HMRC are going to investigate if Man City are found guilty of (allegedly) paying their manager under an offshore tax free contract for work actually performed in the UK. If that is the case it is tax evasion which is tax fraud. It therefore becomes (if true) a criminal case and not just a breach of PL rules.

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• YA

  @yamanoorzad1526 · 1 day ago

  Separating the players/coaches and the executive doesn&apos;t make sense.<br><br>We win together and we lose together<br>When Haaland scores they&apos;ll say &apos;we win together&apos; when he misses and they lose they&apos;ll say &apos;we lose together&apos;<br>how many times did Pep say this after a title win - something along the lines of &apos;this title belongs to all of us&apos;<br><br>Why can&apos;t it apply to cheating<br>When the board/executives cheats &nbsp;they&apos;re &apos;cheating together&apos;

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• PR

  @procsorted · 1 day ago

  Where else to begin but Manchester City 1 - 114 Justice

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• AR

  @arkadye · 1 day ago

  I&apos;m much less sympathetic to the &quot;don&apos;t punish the fans&quot; attitude. This clearly means &quot;don&apos;t impose a [harsh] sporting sanction&quot;. But plenty of teams have had points deductions. I&apos;ve watched my team (Leicester City) miss out on Champions League football because of Man City&apos;s rule breaking, cripple ourselves in the transfer market to try to keep in line with the rules (we could have had Ademola Lookman for &nbsp;a bargain!) get relegated as a result, and not only not recover, but have the rules follow us down a division to relegate us again. We&apos;d have stayed in The Championship last season without it. <br><br>If fans of the other clubs can suffer, both watching their teams get season-altering points deductions, and missing out on prizes on opportunities they might otherwise have won, Man City fans cannot be mollycoddled.

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• ZA

  @zambianguy8251 · 1 day ago

  Really loved Colin Millar insisting in the titles being stripped because i genuinely don’t think people understand the magnitude of the cheating and the scandal we are dealing with. There has to be deference to the point where clubs in the future shouldn’t even contemplate it

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• AA

  @Aadi-du9ut · 1 day ago

  &apos;Why punish the whole club when this stuff happened at the executive level&apos;?<br><br>&apos;The whole club&apos; won stuff on the back of this financial doping. This while others operated under constraints, to the point where it affected these clubs for seasons. <br><br>Just relegation would actually be mercy!

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• DA

  @Davidbaratunk · 1 day ago

  The punishment needs to be bigger than the benefits of their cheating, or else it is just the cost of business. And City have won everything. And as Man City are a soft power project by a foreign actor, the punishment needs to be big enough to prove the EPL&apos;s &apos;sovereignty&apos;.

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• KI

  @killerbean2 · 1 day ago

  Saying &quot;Man City didn’t benefit that much&quot; misses the point. If you rob a bank and lose the money, you still committed bank robbery. Plus, CAS didn&apos;t clear Man City on merit—the UEFA ban was overturned because charges were time-barred by a 5-year statute of limitations, and City was fined €10M just for obstructing the investigation. Getting off on a technicality isn&apos;t an acquittal.

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• JJ

  @jjdriessen · 1 day ago

  I disagree with the sympathy for players who chose to sign a contract with a club that they knew was under investigation for cheating. Elliot Anderson knew this when he signed; whilst it doesn&apos;t make him complicit in the cheating, it says a lot about him as a person. If he suffers the consequences of his actions, so be it. He chose a payday and the risks that came with it.

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