29 Sep 2026 22:57:35
With all this with City, it appears that the league,are really looking to punish them. When you see the scale of their fiddling, it was on an industrial scale, talk of at the moment £900m. When and if the Premier do punish them I wouldn't be surprised, if UEFA get involved, because your going to get Euro teams claiming foul as well. The rumours of the amount of money, the owners have tried to slip them illegally is incredible, no wonder Pep decided to do a runner.
Premier and Euro teams will be queuing up with their individual claims against them, you can bet Liverpool and Arsenal will have their say. Villa should be looking at sorting our out, during that time, we've had lots of close ones with them, remember the cup. UTV.
30 Sep 2026 07:40:10
Unfortunately the investigation was only up to 2017/18 season so probably wouldn't affect our cup final.
Even if they are stripped of titles, they probably won't pass them on, similar to Armstrong's Tour de France wins.
Unless we finished 1 position away from something during that time (survival, title, champions league) where they could be considered a direct reason then we won't get anywhere.
I could be wrong but I think the best we'd have done without them above us during those years is an extra UEFA cup spot towards the end of O'Neill's time, Spurs would still have beaten us to Champions League.
01 Oct 2026 12:11:35
Yes but they overspent and laid the foundations for a deeper squad. Without the overspend they wouldn't have had the bigger sponsorship deals etc later on to make them sustainable.