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Manchester City post Premier League record revenue of £712.8m (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (26 children)

Add this to the 115 reasons we already know that this club is a cheating and illegitimate state run machine with no morals. How they can continually be allowed to get away with this and face no punishment while playing with 2 first XIs with a completely empty stadium and no fans I don't know. Someone at the Premier League needs to wake up. Has anyone ever actually seen someone wearing a City shirt in public? You'd think they'd want to keep a low profile right after paying off the referees in the Liverpool Vs Spurs game. Shameless

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (7 children)

    I’ve seen a fair few kids wearing City shirts lately. They’ve definitely made a huge dent in capturing the next generations fandom with their on field success.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I don't want to be that guy but this is exactly what Chelsea were doing ten years ago under Abramovich

    City in 2023 and Chelsea in 2013 have a lot of similarities when you think about it. Clubs that were largely irrelevant at the very top level for a long time and then both clubs were bought by foreign entities where the money being funnelled into both clubs attracted a lot of criticism due to the questionable morals that the owners represented

    Both clubs started to immediately find success not long after the respective takeovers and just after winning the European cup for the first time, both clubs are starting to cement themselves as established football clubs amongst younger generations

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    I spent the whole summer in a resort town in my country and from my (admittedly anecdotal) experience the overwhelming majority of kids wear PSG and City shirts. And it's mostly tourists from different parts of Europe. Basically kids from countries without big clubs tend to flock to the current generation of stars.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    95% of the ‘Old team’ flairs here are that. I’m an American and tons of people are United fans, did they just draw United out of a hat to support? No they were good and wanted to watch good football when they were younger.

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    Like a test run of a 17 yr old spouting incorrect things he heard online. 115 charges of which 95% are connected to the same charge of false accounting 14 years ago, there are no moral billionaires running Premier league clubs, just those in different parts of the world with different rules. Mate, please everyone and their sister knows city doesn’t have two 11s. The stadium has over 50k people for 60 games a year.

    I will say it’s entertaining to watch some people just break down mentally over all of this. Paid the ref for other teams games? lol

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    I’m very new to football. What are the rules around sponsorships? A team can take funds from literally any company as a sponsorship? I assume there are rules around this (and sounds like City has broke the rules) but I find it hard to believe that everything they’ve done to get here is illegitimate?

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  • [–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

    The funniest thing is that they don't even try to hide it.
    In one season they were the club with the most income!
    more than real madrid!
    They behave like cheaters. When you don't punish cheaters, they will continue cheating!.

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