Been playing Conte terrorist football for 2 years, so no fitness required for a 6 yard box low block. Dier gets nosebleed if he goes beyond his penalty box. Being asked to step into their opponents half to press and do some running has worn out the poor dears.

Yes, if you have broken the rules.

While I can’t disagree with the above, you aren’t comparing like for like periods and specifically the stadium build era until around 2013.

If you look at Wenger, he spent alot post 2013, when Fergie was retired and other managers were spending at old Trafford. Likewise Wenger started late 1996 so Fergies transfers pre Wenger were cheap compared to modern transfer fees.

One day somebody will calculate the quality of the squads he had compared to Fergie in the latter years and realise he worked miracles.

If they were found guilty, you can assume they will be fined or sued and be banned from accessing certain sponsors, not to mention the club would struggle to attract high-paying sponsors. This means selling players to balance FFP or whatever bills they have to pay, would become a priority in the short term, thus relying on academy/free transfers to get the team up again. The good news is even in a potential fire sale City will net hundreds of millions, but on the negative side, any damages might also be of a similar magnitude. Whether they could spend once back in the PL isn’t certain either. The PL could be required to sign off on transfers and they might still have bills to pay.

I don’t think they have done anything wrong because the PL has reigned then in early.

They have every right to sue. The PL didn’t deal with the matter in the season it happened and they lost money as a result of relegation. The proof is in the deduction, subject to appeal and I don’t think Everton can argue otherwise.

That said I imagine they will look to settle before it sees the inside of a courtroom.

Roll on Chelsea and Man City, they might be looking at a more substantial bill.

It would be a true popcorn moment.

City would be looking at hundreds of millions, if not billions of damages. Imagine if City had pushed you down a spot and you lost £1m a season, that’s 20 clubs X £1m per year. That’s before relegation, missing out on European football, TV money/competition prize money. Even if City settled, it would push them into financial oblivion and probably administration - if FFP hasn’t already.

City have to win, losing even small will destroy them.

Reporting it might lessen some aspects but they are still benefitting now from investments made in players when they breached FFP. Just like City, you build a team with money you don’t have and then profit from sales to further reinvest. Chelsea made alot of money from youth products sold for good money.

I would expect the same example as Everton, points deductions for each year they broke it. 6 points per breach. They might remove the points deductions for the amount of the breach or maybe not fining them.

1. FFP would mean most of their players would leave. The remainder would have to be sold to cover payouts to the PL for fines and other clubs for damages IE. Everton are facing a £300m lawsuit for 1 £20m overspend.
2. How will they pay for all the resources? No sponsor is touching them for years, so only gate money. I doubt the owners would be deemed fit to carry on and most youth products would want to move to a top flight club.
3. Possibly, if they have the gate revenue to do so.
4. They won’t if the owners are barred and no sponsor touches them.
5. True but they haven’t lied about their revenue. Being a big club with big grounds/support and legitimate sponsorship isn’t breaking FFP. Lying about payments to get an unfair advantage is. The big clubs will be the first to sue, but most of the premier league and anybody relegated in the last dozen years will be seeking damages.
6. Possibly but it depends what happens to City.

I think yes, but after Chelsea.

I think the PL wants to make an example of anybody who breaches FFP. They don’t want the UK Gov appointing a Football Regulator and putting their house in order. Also partly because “public interest” may come into TV deals (politicians love a vote winner) and the whole gravy train could come to a shuddering halt.

As much as Oil money talks, I don’t think City will get all 115 charges dropped and perhaps this is the trial run. I don’t think they’ll be getting off likely, if anything this might be a convenient way to solve another problem, linked to Chelsea:-

Foreign Office Investigation

Another thing to bare in mind is teams being sued. It’s not going to take many charges for City to be looking at hundreds of millions in damages from other clubs. FFP may not do for City but litigation could. West Ham paid off Sheffield Utd due to dodgy transfers a few years ago, and that was rumoured to be “only” £20m.

City will be doing well to get all 115 claims dismissed.

It’s only going to take 1 year of FFP breach to get multiple claims, £70m for missing out of CL. £30m for Europa, position money, possible subsequent year claims.