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Who are the world class players bought during this period?
Players like (i've listed the significant buys, they range from just over £10million to £65million from 2013 onwards): Fernandinho Stevan Jovetic Álvaro Negredo Jesús Navas Eliaquim Mangala Wilfried Bony Kevin De Bruyne Raheem Sterling Nicolás Otamendi Fabian Delph John Stones Leroy Sané Gabriel Jesus Ilkay Gündogan Claudio Bravo Nolito Aymeric Laporte Benjamin Mendy Kyle Walker Bernardo Silva Ederson Danilo Douglas Luiz Riyad Mahrez Rodri João Cancelo Quite a list, this go's back to 2013/14 season when City are accused of misreporting income/sponsorship from the Der SPiegel emails, FFP came in 2011, interesting article here: https://www.theguardian.com/football/202...obox=1581708883
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Who are the world class players bought during this period?
Players like (i've listed the significant buys, they range from just over £10million to £65million from 2013 onwards): Fernandinho Stevan Jovetic Álvaro Negredo Jesús Navas Eliaquim Mangala Wilfried Bony Kevin De Bruyne Raheem Sterling Nicolás Otamendi Fabian Delph John Stones Leroy Sané Gabriel Jesus Ilkay Gündogan Claudio Bravo Nolito Aymeric Laporte Benjamin Mendy Kyle Walker Bernardo Silva Ederson Danilo Douglas Luiz Riyad Mahrez Rodri João Cancelo Quite a list, this go's back to 2013/14 season when City are accused of misreporting income/sponsorship from the Der SPiegel emails, FFP came in 2011, interesting article here: https://www.theguardian.com/football/202...obox=1581708883 Cant see who was world class before he came to City in that list except probably Mahrez who had won player of the year once, who else?
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Agree snakes but money talks and they’ll buy their way out of this. Doesn't look like they managed to buy their way out with the UEFA, did they? They have an appeal to go through so we’ll see. The point is though that UEFA (and the EPL) won’t do too much to harm their income. Banning City for a few seasons doesn’t hit UEFA in the pocket too hard. Any harsher punishments like relegations etc. from the EPL (if indeed that were a possibility) would so won’t happen.
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Who are the world class players bought during this period?
Players like (i've listed the significant buys, they range from just over £10million to £65million from 2013 onwards): Fernandinho Stevan Jovetic Álvaro Negredo Jesús Navas Eliaquim Mangala Wilfried Bony Kevin De Bruyne Raheem Sterling Nicolás Otamendi Fabian Delph John Stones Leroy Sané Gabriel Jesus Ilkay Gündogan Claudio Bravo Nolito Aymeric Laporte Benjamin Mendy Kyle Walker Bernardo Silva Ederson Danilo Douglas Luiz Riyad Mahrez Rodri João Cancelo Quite a list, this go's back to 2013/14 season when City are accused of misreporting income/sponsorship from the Der SPiegel emails, FFP came in 2011, interesting article here: https://www.theguardian.com/football/202...obox=1581708883 Cant see who was world class before he came to City in that list except probably Mahrez who had won player of the year once, who else? I'd say quite a few were world class or on the verge of it, which was reflected in their transfer fee/wages, quite allot dropped down in quality when at City: Kevin De Bruyne Raheem Sterling Aymeric Laporte Benjamin Mendy Kyle Walker Bernardo Silva Mahrez I'd also add to that Pep, Pellegrini & Mancini who were brought in/paid using that money.
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Probably two world class players then.
Some of the defensive signings have disappointed.
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Who are the world class players bought during this period?
Players like (i've listed the significant buys, they range from just over £10million to £65million from 2013 onwards): Fernandinho Stevan Jovetic Álvaro Negredo Jesús Navas Eliaquim Mangala Wilfried Bony Kevin De Bruyne Raheem Sterling Nicolás Otamendi Fabian Delph John Stones Leroy Sané Gabriel Jesus Ilkay Gündogan Claudio Bravo Nolito Aymeric Laporte Benjamin Mendy Kyle Walker Bernardo Silva Ederson Danilo Douglas Luiz Riyad Mahrez Rodri João Cancelo Quite a list, this go's back to 2013/14 season when City are accused of misreporting income/sponsorship from the Der SPiegel emails, FFP came in 2011, interesting article here: https://www.theguardian.com/football/202...obox=1581708883 Cant see who was world class before he came to City in that list except probably Mahrez who had won player of the year once, who else? I'd say quite a few were world class or on the verge of it, which was reflected in their transfer fee/wages, quite allot dropped down in quality when at City: Kevin De Bruyne Raheem Sterling Aymeric Laporte Benjamin Mendy Kyle Walker Bernardo Silva Mahrez I'd also add to that Pep, Pellegrini & Mancini who were brought in/paid using that money. None of them were already world class when they came to City, only Mahrez had won the player of the year once. In fact they were not spending record fees on particular players but built a squad quickly, ie, spending on a lot of players
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If the 2 year CL ban stands than at the very least Man City need to be relegated, and if football league rules are followed then that means League 2.
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The FA haven’t the balls though welshie. They’ll do nothing even if City’s Nan is upheld.
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The FA haven’t the balls though welshie. They’ll do nothing even if City’s Nan is upheld. According to UEFA FFP rules clubs need to break even whereas EPL clubs are allowed to make 105m loss per season but financed through shareholders funds. We were making losses as well a few years back
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