[Football] Man City launch legal action against Premier League

[Triggaaar]

city are a horrible club who represent everything that’s wrong with football and i hope they lose. obviously a petulant tit-for-tat in response to the 115 charges
‘tyranny of the majority’? seriously??

But what do you really think?

 

[Curious Orange]

If the rules are unfair how comes they've won the league four times on the trot?

 

[macbeth]

A bunch of premier league clubs are siding with the premier league in this case.

Good.

I hope we’re one of them

 

[Triggaaar]

So basically an admission of guilt then.

Indeed. 'We haven't broken any rules. But on a totally separate point, we're suing you because we think that the rules that we haven't broken, are unfair on our club.'

If you haven't broken the rules, and you've managed to win an unprecedented 4 titles in a row, what exactly is your problem with the rules?

 

[Hotchilidog]

Apparently De Bryune now considering the Saudi league....rats lining up to leave the sinking ship?

 

[Triggaaar]

They’ll win

Why?

 

[Insel affe]

Why?

Because money corrupts

 

[HangletonGull]

Pre take over Man City where ok bounced up and down and had a proper stadium in the community, now they are nothing, as much I would love to win the premiership and European cup I wouldt want to win it how they have in fact I would go to Worthing if this happened to us

 

[Flounce]

Why?

Unlimited funds and the best lawyers

 

[Weststander]

This was inevitable.

Crooks in this case with limitless money, 'going on the front foot'. The oldest technique in the book.

 

[Beanstalk]

They’d obviously prefer an ‘Elite’ team dictatorship, which would mean the death of English football.

Let’s just let them f*** off to their European Super League and kick them out of the domestic game.

Spot on really. And I think if they win this and sue the league that's the end of the Premier League, and probably the end of domestic English football in general.

Half would f*** off to some tik tok streamed Super League funded by oil barons and New York financiers, whilst the other half would need to be re-absorbed into the Football League. Both sets of those clubs would owe hundreds of millions to TV companies and it would likely bankrupt those who weren't part of a new Super League, where those "super clubs" would be fine to cover it with their new windfalls.

The Premier League pretty much have to get through this, and punish City or that's that.

 

[Triggaaar]

Unlimited funds and the best lawyers

The PL has many millions available to employ absolutely top lawyers.

 

[Flounce]

The PL has many millions available to employ absolutely top lawyers.

Naive to think they’ll be able to compete and win against an oil state…imo

Of course I hope they do

 

[Deadly Danson]

Apparently De Bryune now considering the Saudi league....rats lining up to leave the sinking ship?

Yep, I mentioned elsewhere but imagine being so oblivious to the world you live in that, on £400k a week, you talk about how useful the Saudi money would be.

 

[Triggaaar]

Naive to think they’ll be able to compete and win against an oil state…imo

There comes a point where both sides are employing top KCs and spending more doesn't really do anything.

 

[Flounce]

Yep, I mentioned elsewhere but imagine being so oblivious to the world you live in that, on £400k a week, you talk about how useful the Saudi money would be.

Don’t most people tend to live to the limit and beyond their salaries? Although it would be hard to do that with the money top footballers earn I accept

 

[Stato]

If the rules are unfair how comes they've won the league four times on the trot?

Because they broke them?

 

[Flounce]

There comes a point where both sides are employing top KCs and spending more doesn't really do anything.

You’d hope, we’ll find out over the next few years no doubt

 

[Binney on acid]

Could be interesting. I refuse to watch any game of football that features Citeh, or Chelsea and Hove Albion. However, if Citeh are involved in a league match on TV against a team like Rotherham, or Dagenham and Redbridge, I might watch it.

 

[Insel affe]

The so called top English clubs were crying out for an elite league where they could make as much money as possible promising the highest quality football in the best league in the world, hence the Premier League was born. Along came Leicester and smashed the elite, oh they did not like their elitism challenged.
The Premier league money was not enough to feed the beast, so they duck and dive to keep within rules they initially agreed too, thinking they could not be challenged.
The world is not enough apparently, City and the rest are nothing but rat snakes, the only animal that will attempt and sometimes eat itself.