Imagine the PR gaff of having to retrospectively strip titles from a club. All the PL will do is wait for a season where City win the league by 20 points and strip them of 19.
Imagine the PR gaff of having to retrospectively strip titles from a club. All the PL will do is wait for a season where City win the league by 20 points and strip them of 19.
The way football is nowadays, I suspect there aren’t that many clubs fully and truly above board. Every single club will have performed some ‘interesting’ accounting over the past 10-15 years with all of the TV money.
For city, retroactive punishment will create a logistical nightmare. If there is any on field punishment for city, such as a points deduction, we have to expect that it would be added to the following season so they start in the negative. Anything else really just causes an absolute mess for the years preceding and a PR nightmare.
I suspect it will be a hefty fine though. And by hefty, I mean a few million but that’s nothing to city.
You’re right, it would be ridiculous and ultimately fairly meaningless to go back to previous seasons and strip them of past honours. They already had the parties, the open-top buses, the ‘Agueroooooo’ moments, altering the record books years later is no real punishment.
All points deductions are a logistical nightmare and it’s depressing when league positions will become decided as much by matters off the pitch as on it. And relegating the likes of City and Chelsea would just make a nonsense of the Championship for a season giving other teams no hope of automatic promotion.
These are financial crimes, there should be financial punishments. Significant fines - like equivalent to the levels of overspending - maybe even payable to other clubs in the league to help level the playing field - are much better than footballing ones. They gained an advantage by overspending, they should now be disadvantaged financially as a result.
this is a terrible idea. it would either be so small its meaningless, or so large it destroys clubs. ffp isn’t just your oil clubs
I agree. Fine them £1 billion.
And rescind their titles.
Much fairer way of doing things