Soccer (Closing)

When Man City

115 charges - silence
1 charge - docked 10 points

A non-punishment when the promoted teams are so bad. Everton will still stay up. This just sends the message that teams can do what they want and get away with it.

If they were actually serious, then this would have happened last season. Everton being relegated as a result of breaking the rules would have sent a much clearer message to every other club.

At least Everton are not so bad this season and this should not be fatal. But fucking hell if that's their punishment, then the gruesome bluesome should be relegated out the Football League.

If this had happened during the last few seasons, Everton would be a Championship club right now. Thankfully for them and despite the points deduction, there are far worse teams heading for the drop.

This might be the season where there are three teams worse than Everten.

So they had the money to spend, but broke PL rules which permit some clubs to spend more than others? Got it. Calling a closed shop "sustainability" is like an oil company using "environmentally friendly"

And nothing to city?!

But not City 🤣

This is actually mad. City has 115 charges, Everton has 1. Yeah they broke spending rules, but fuck me, this is awful. Chelsea did similar with transfers but got a 2 window ban?

I actually feel bad for Everton, so many top sides, City, Chelsea, Barca maybe even RM have all had dodgy finances or in Barca's case, even evidence to suggest paying refs, yet 0 sanctions except a fine that's a drop in the bucket. One rule for them, another for everyone else I guess.

People are screaming bloody murder about City and Chelsea but i think this punishment, is really bad news for both. Im much more confident now, that they will face deductions

Spurs, Arsenal and Liverpool might very well be fighting for the title as we speak.

Cool. Now do City

I would NOT want to play Everton at Goodison Park now

If ever there was a season to get a points deduction this is the one.

Man City when?

If they do end up going down, yikes. It’s easy and fine to meme on them as rivals, but they would be terrible for the city of Liverpool.

How’ve they been given more than we got 😭😭

And City will walk away with zero consequences because you've even got the foreign office discussing City's charges with the UAE.

Corrupt, disgusting club.

https://theathletic.com/4889001/2023/09/22/man-city-charges-premier-league-abu-dhabi/

joke league

Very lucky for Everton that the bottom of the league is absolutely woeful this year. They'll probably still survive relegation.

We deserve it for how awful we’ve been run recently but the team is playing great right now so I don’t feel that bad. If we play even close to the level we’ve been showing recently we should still be pretty comfortably safe

Survive this year and we can finally put all of this awful Moshiri era nonsense behind us and hopefully we’ve learned a lot from it

The league is a joke.

Absolutely crying laughing about an article being about Everton and then looking at the comments being about City. I thought nobody cared about them? Amazing how rent free they live in your heads.

I look forward to seeing my beloved City on Welcome to Wrexham once we've work our way back up to League 2

Do Man City now

A certain club has 115 charges I’m guessing the get chucked in the national league or?

Great, do City next

Hahahahahaha fuck you toffees

Breaking News - Man City to be awarded 10 points

They'll still survive with how bad the original bottom 3 are. Still Bullshit with City and Chelsea doing what they do.

Nah screw this

I don’t understand why Everton can’t buy a few players when Chelsea spends 8 figures on any soccer player with two legs

Premier league. Strong on the poor. Weak on the rich.

No way in hell city actually loses points. Those lawyers are going to be heading into overdrive

They're not being punished because you spend too much. They're punished because they did not spend enough.

Man City - 115 charges. 115 X 10 points = a lot of points.

Wait so what about man city then?

Cool now strip city and chelsea of all their filthy "trophies"

Sean Dyche voice gets deeper

If this is the standard they're going to set for minimal financial mismanagement I expect, as should everyone else who follows the league, that a club like City will be expelled from the Premier League. If they are found guilty on even a fraction of their 115 charges the PL cannot hold back simply because of the revenue the club's corrupt tyrant owner brings to the league. If City is ignored, I'm not sure how the PL and FA have any ounce of integrity or trust left, and how anyone watching the league thinks the outcome of any proceeding season is meaningful.

Am gutted for them seems crazy harsh unless City get nuked (fingers crossed)

lol, City going straight back to sunday league if anything comes out of these charges then

Damn, the utter shamelessness by the FA. Sure, send Everton to second division while Man City or Chelsea laugh their asses off... I'd expect far better from the "best league in the world", but I guess corruption is also rampant there.

Should have deducted the points last season.

Hope City get docked 75 points just for the experiment to see if they stay up. This season probably likely.

Stripping of a title is basically meaningless, no one cares IMO. It still happened and the fans had their moment, that wouldn’t change that. It would still be ‘their title’ regardless of how you spun it.

Damn, they’re going down

Tbh this might be the best year for Everton to incur this penalty

They haven't even gone into last place with the deduction, so I think they should be fine

Game's gone if little Everton are punished while big Emarati Man Citeh still wins titles despite being massive fucking cheating scumbags.

an appeal must be heard, and concluded, before the end of the season.

Important, not having to choose between taking the hit now or risking a deduction in a tougher relegation fight next season