Topic: Man City - cheating bastards rumbled

[newterp]

"Trustworthiness is our middle name"

Uh hu

the other middle name is "chop your head off"

[Currywurst]

the other middle name is "chop your head off"

Just get in Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler and he'll save them the trouble.

[BigCDump]

Just get in Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler and he'll save them the trouble.

[Skeeve]

Just get in Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler and he'll save them the trouble.

He would have far too much self-respect to be involved with such dodgy characters.

[wampa1]

They will somehow sign a goalkeeper and back 4 on loan from City the day after the draw, and proceed to lose 4-0 in both legs with Scott Carson diving the wrong way for every shot.

Nah, City will bottle it in the 2nd leg.

[Flaccido Dongingo]

When do we get our first crack at these cheats in the League?

[Terry de Niro]

When do we get our first crack at these cheats in the League?

15th of October at home.

[Barneylfc∗]

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[Barneylfc∗]

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[newterp]

All these neat companies founded in the last few years too.

Very logical they would have the revenues to strike a deal with City.

Nothing to see here.

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

An online bookmakers that doesn't even have a website but can afford to sponsor a Premier League football club. Right-o.

[Ray K]

Joey D'Urso  @josephmdurso
Man City's statement says this website "is licensed and regulated in Great Britain by the Gambling Commission" which is categorically false.

It's a "white label" website given a backdoor to the UK market via a very peculiar company in the Isle of Man. The website is not "regulated" in the UK in any way. We have no idea who runs it.

[Flaccido Dongingo]

https://www.8xbet.co.uk/

They have an "award winning sportsbook" before the website is built, that's some achievement.

[Crosby Nick]

Shonky twats.

[Hazell]

Joey D'Urso  @josephmdurso
Man City's statement says this website "is licensed and regulated in Great Britain by the Gambling Commission" which is categorically false.

It's a "white label" website given a backdoor to the UK market via a very peculiar company in the Isle of Man. The website is not "regulated" in the UK in any way. We have no idea who runs it.

Surely not?

[Tonyh8su]

How is this continuously ignored by the media and general football watching public?

[rob1966]

An online bookmakers that doesn't even have a website but can afford to sponsor a Premier League football club. Right-o.

They appointed Man Utd "legend" Teddy Sheringham as an ambassador in March, love to hear his thoughts on all this

Joey D'Urso  @josephmdurso
Man City's statement says this website "is licensed and regulated in Great Britain by the Gambling Commission" which is categorically false.

It's a "white label" website given a backdoor to the UK market via a very peculiar company in the Isle of Man. The website is not "regulated" in the UK in any way. We have no idea who runs it.

I was looking at that earlier, looks well dodgy, surprise surprise.

According to this website, they are sports writers based in Vietnam, its just a load of shite isn't it.

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[RedSince86]

It's like that Silver Lake partners deal they did who "bought" a %  of the club for £700 million raising the value of the club and CFG.

About 2-3 months later the Abu Dhabi state paid $2 billion for a % of Silver Lake.

 

[Wghennessy]

Are 8xbet linked to 1xbet at all?

[Flaccido Dongingo]

Are 8xbet linked to 1xbet at all?

They're 8 times better

[Egyptian36]

What about the obvious ones.

Two of thier sponsors, Alder and Masdar ( announced at the start of this year ) are part of Mubadala.
Mubadala Vice-Chairman is City's owner, the CEO is City’s Chairman !

How is this even allowed and why EPL clubs not doing anything,  it couldn't be more obvious

[Hazell]

What about the obvious ones.

Two of thier sponsors, Alder and Masdar ( announced at the start of this year ) are part of Mubadala.
Mubadala Vice-Chairman is City's owner, the CEO is City’s Chairman !

How is this even allowed and why EPL clubs not doing anything,  it couldn't be more obvious

Not sure what the clubs can do right now? As far as I'm aware, there's an ongoing investigation by the PL. Okay, nothing will probably come of it but their hands are tied right now. Short of voting to kick them out or refusing to play them (won't happen unfortunately), what can they do?

[rob1966]

Not sure what the clubs can do right now? As far as I'm aware, there's an ongoing investigation by the PL. Okay, nothing will probably come of it but their hands are tied right now. Short of voting to kick them out or refusing to play them (won't happen unfortunately), what can they do?

I'd loved to see that. Abu Dhabi playing 2 competitive games all season, Saudi home and away and winning the league with Maximum points, that would destroy the Premier League.

[Dougle]

"Established in 2013, the group has secured total or partial ownership of twelve clubs across the world: Manchester City, New York City FC, Melbourne FC, Yokohama F. Marinos, Montevideo City Torque, Girona, Sichuan Jiuniu, Mumbai City FC, Lommel SK, Troyes and, now, Palermo."

I watch a bit of Brazilian footie and the word there is they are buying Bahia, the biggest club team in the state of Bahia. It kind of makes sense as far as making the process of extracting Brazilian talent at cheap prices is concerned. Making Bahia successful would also give them the opportunity of "selling high" as well as buying low.

[Egyptian36]

Not sure what the clubs can do right now? As far as I'm aware, there's an ongoing investigation by the PL. Okay, nothing will probably come of it but their hands are tied right now. Short of voting to kick them out or refusing to play them (won't happen unfortunately), what can they do?

I have no idea but it's 18 football clubs aginst 2 surely they can do something ? clubs need to do a big move like refusing to play aginst City and Newcastle like you said or anything, who will punish 18 clubs ? because whats happening is a joke even after the concerns they had and meetings about Newcastle yet Noon which is part owned by Newcastle owners sponsored the club.

[JRed]

Said many times but these are the biggest cheats sport, any sport,  has ever known. They are absolutely killing the game we all love, to the point where in the next 5 years I expect many long standing football fans to just give up on it.
There is one very simple solution: Fans just stop going to games involving state-owned clubs. That would force the authorities and clubs to do something about it.
I would love for clubs to just concede games against them and refuse to play, by all means give them the points and make a mockery of the league, that is what these are doing anyway.

[Hazell]

I'd loved to see that. Abu Dhabi playing 2 competitive games all season, Saudi home and away and winning the league with Maximum points, that would destroy the Premier League.

I have no idea but it's 18 football clubs aginst 2 surely they can do something ? clubs need to do a big move like refusing to play aginst City and Newcastle like you said or anything, who will punish 18 clubs ? because whats happening is a joke even after the concerns they had and meetings about Newcastle yet Noon which is part owned by Newcastle owners sponsored the club.

Yeah, it would be great if clubs flat out refused to play them, but that's not happening unfortunately. Like I said, I don't hold much hope for the PL investigation either but I'm hoping they surprise me.

[Barneylfc∗]

Getting £12m from Southampton for Ireland's back up keeper. Nothing dodgy about that at all.

And another £14m from Southampton for an 18 year old with a total of 0 minutes of first team football.

[JRed]

And another £14m from Southampton for an 18 year old with a total of 0 minutes of first team football.

It’s truly amazing how they manage to get such transfer fees for young players that no one has ever heard of. It’s almost as if they are making it up.

[-Willo-]

It’s truly amazing how they manage to get such transfer fees for young players that no one has ever heard of. It’s almost as if they are making it up.

You can hardly make up finances from other clubs.

The sponsorships are a joke but lets not pretend other premier league clubs are in on the scam too

Their youth teams have dominated for the last few years so its hardly surprising they have loads worth a few bob, Southampton did the same with Livramento from Chelsea a year or so back and it worked so they're doing it again.

[Barneylfc∗]

You can hardly make up finances from other clubs.

The sponsorships are a joke but lets not pretend other premier league clubs are in on the scam too

Their youth teams have dominated for the last few years so its hardly surprising they have loads worth a few bob, Southampton did the same with Livramento from Chelsea a year or so back and it worked so they're doing it again.

For £5m

[El Lobo]

You can hardly make up finances from other clubs.

The sponsorships are a joke but lets not pretend other premier league clubs are in on the scam too

Their youth teams have dominated for the last few years so its hardly surprising they have loads worth a few bob, Southampton did the same with Livramento from Chelsea a year or so back and it worked so they're doing it again.

Dyou think David Luiz was legitimately worth £50 million when PSG signed him from Chelsea....?

[-Willo-]

Dyou think David Luiz was legitimately worth £50 million when PSG signed him from Chelsea....?

Prices aren't tangible to anything though, its just all dependant on how badly a team wants a player, how badly a team wants to keep a player, how rich the club is, etc..

Was Andy Carroll worth £35 million when Liverpool signed him from Newcastle?

[JRed]

Prices aren't tangible to anything though, its just all dependant on how badly a team wants a player, how badly a team wants to keep a player, how rich the club is, etc..

Was Andy Carroll worth £35 million when Liverpool signed him from Newcastle?

Was the Emptyhad naming rights deal worth £400m?

You cannot trust a single thing that club says or does.

[-Willo-]

Was the Emptyhad naming rights deal worth £400m?

You cannot trust a single thing that club says or does.

No, I believe they are completely made up, I am just on about players moving to other Premier League clubs, really can't see them prices being inflated

 

You can hardly make up finances from other clubs.

The sponsorships are a joke but lets not pretend other premier league clubs are in on the scam too

Their youth teams have dominated for the last few years so its hardly surprising they have loads worth a few bob, Southampton did the same with Livramento from Chelsea a year or so back and it worked so they're doing it again.

[El Lobo]

Prices aren't tangible to anything though, its just all dependant on how badly a team wants a player, how badly a team wants to keep a player, how rich the club is, etc..

Was Andy Carroll worth £35 million when Liverpool signed him from Newcastle?

These sorts of conversations go absolutely nowhere, because you get some people who are just so steadfast that absolutely nothing could possibly be dodgy in the world of football. And of course none of us have actual 'proof' that anything dodgy is going on here.

Andy Carroll was a flavour of the month, homegrown hero type, at the arse end of a transfer window. David Luiz had just had a comedy season at Chelsea where he couldn't get in the team ahead of Gary fucking Cahill, and PSG then randomly felt that was the sort of player to dismantle the world record for a defender, and you genuinely don't think there was anything fishy going on with that and the subsequent return?

[Chris~]

Southampton's new head of recruitment has just finished as head of acadmey recruitment for City to either fuel a conspiracy or explain their recruitment

[-Willo-]

These sorts of conversations go absolutely nowhere, because you get some people who are just so steadfast that absolutely nothing could possibly be dodgy in the world of football. And of course none of us have actual 'proof' that anything dodgy is going on here.

Andy Carroll was a flavour of the month, homegrown hero type, at the arse end of a transfer window. David Luiz had just had a comedy season at Chelsea where he couldn't get in the team ahead of Gary fucking Cahill, and PSG then randomly felt that was the sort of player to dismantle the world record for a defender, and you genuinely don't think there was anything fishy going on with that and the subsequent return?

No I don't, what do PSG get out of pretending to have paid more money for Luiz.

It is really obvious their sponsorship deals are fake but I can't see clubs doing it between players, it is too messy to do that, and I can't see any benefit for the buying club.

Teams just sometimes spend a lot of money on shit, we've benefitted from idiot clubs lots in the past few years who do just that.

[Dim Glas]

I don’t really see much wrong with these Southampton signings from Sportswash FC. In fact, signing talented young players seems to be a wise choice for them. The initial fee for Lavia is 10 mill.  Abu Dhabi have a 40 mill buy back in the clause too apparently.

The goalie they signed is legitimately meant to be very good too, so again, signing a talented young goalie, when they did in fact need a new goalie - probably a good idea    Good goalies cost money! (Even average to poor goalies cost money).

I love a good dig at Abu Dhabi, but the only dig here for me is why yet again Guardiola has zero interest in helping develop young talents in his first team (bar Foden).  Rhetorical question by the way! We all know why, his only concern is ‘winning’ trophies and for that you need players ready to step in, he has no interest in building or helping players grow.

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

No I don't, what do PSG get out of pretending to have paid more money for Luiz.
.

Given that they ended up selling him back to Chelsea, also for an inflated fee, I imagine it was all very helpful on both sides for book balancing. Similar to the Arthur/Pjanic deal.