Manchester City face £49m fine and wage cap for financial fair play breach

[oldironside]

Manchester City are facing Uefa sanctions for breaching financial fair play rules which would see the club limited to a 21-man Champions League squad instead of the usual 25 players next season.

City, who are still strongly challenging the settlement offer from Uefa, are also facing a fine in the region of €60m (£49m) over three years, and a cap imposed for next season to ensure there is no rise in this season's Champions League A squad wage bill.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/06/manchester-city-face-49m-fine-wage-cap-financial-fair-play

Amazing, so Mansour can buy the league title, and next the European Cup, and all they are going to do is fine him pocket money. The game is dead and the presumptive English champions are nothing more than a front to deflect attention away from human rights abuses in Abu Dhabi. Sickening.

[Rambis]

1. Bob's yer uncle (NM)

[Ron Obvious]

2. And if they breach that cap next year...

they can expect a severe ticking off and a stern warning not to do that again, of course.

[Aquavit]

3. If they breach the cap again next year...

They should be forced to hire Pep Guardiola! His ego will have all the high-priced players jumping ship by Christmas!

[Lizzie Poppet]

4. Bitter scouser detected.

"The game is dead and the presumptive English champions are nothing more than a front to deflect attention away from human rights abuses in Abu Dhabi."

[oldironside]

5. Well, for all your pathetically juvenile attempt...

at a smart alec comment, you couldn't be more wrong. I ain't no Scouser. I was born and bred in Hampshire and would no more support Liverpool than I would Man U, Chelsea or Spurs (or Arsenal for that matter).

So, up yours.

[Lizzie Poppet]

6. Ah, so you have even less reason to post bollocks.

Good to know...

[oldironside]

7. Wooooh,

I've touched a nerve haven't I.

It's also very nice to see that someone who posts in what is supposed to be a progressive forum is willing to sell out their principles for the hollow joy of pretending that the Abu Dhabi All-Stars have anything to do with what used to be their football club.

[Lizzie Poppet]

8. No, what you're actually seeing...

...is someone who knows tinfoil hat bullshit when she sees it, that there's a group for that (Creative Speculation), and that it's actually prohibited in every other forum of group here. If you've "touched a nerve" (the hilariously predictable blurt of every internet forum troll ever), trust me, it's my funny bone.

I am a bad person, though: I find delusion and insane conspiracy theories hilarious. Sour grapes, on the other hand, are just pathetic.