Saint86

Three immediately prominent answers are Gomes (we got £170K for a potential generational talent on that one), Ballard, and JJM. The last 2 would be playing for us this season 😄.

They've been found guilty by the independent panel. They have 14days now to appeal. If unsuccessful they must then accept the punishment or take it to the high court. At the high court - they would seemingly now be reliant on the same witnesses they used in the premier League defence... The same witnesses the premier league has directly accused of lying. Will those witnesses take that to the high court and risk being found guilty of fraud? I would say they are in serious/existential trouble. At what point does a new club starting a the bottom becomes preferable? Also, if they remain in existence, I would imagine every club that is able will bring a legal case against them. Any form of long term transfer ban will ruin them. And their players will presumably be able to sue them or tear up their contracts, including the academy side. And then SCR rules in the EFL (which is where they are heading) will hamstring them in the face of fines and legal cases.

We won't be playing Man City for a very long time (if indeed ever) after this... £900M and criminal fraud alleged. Thats the end of them, swindon will look like a slap on the wrist.

Really should have had more than 3000 for this... Maximum away allocation (without spacial segregation measures) is about 6000 there. Its relatively easy to get to, and a big game - at least another 1000 should have been taken i feel.

Hopefully not another one that we let go and end up regretting... sadly been a pattern under SR.

What may weight against us here, is that there is likely at least a year still to run on the man city case. Hopefully the Tonda case is resolved this side of Christmas... the longer it goes on i can also see a scenario where they ban him for the playoffs... even seeing it as a poetic justice.

I think the Man City leak is a serious fly in the ointment for the football authorities. Go any harder on an already draconian sanction for Southampton, and they'll leave themselves previous little wiggle room for Man City... And people like Mancini (as just one example) who this week have said that any illegal payments made to him are "man city's problem" will likely need to face significant long term bans from football if Eckert gets a ban for a couple of spying incidents.

The whole thing is embarrassing by Bazunu.

2026 has made it very obvious that he is just a journo for hire these days - no integrity and will just come out with whatever side pays him the most wants.

I am surprised Azaz didn't play, good news for us though i guess.

Reading some of those comments, that could be it for his Ireland career... Tolerant bunch aren't they.

The scale of city's breach puts spygate in perspective... Sadly too late for us to be given a reasonable sanction.

Its hard to make a case that they won't get expelled surely 😅

Yeah, they are fucked. Sporting sanction wise though, isn't just the EPL? So the worst they can do is enforce a points deduction / demotion, possibly strip them of all titles, and potentially a transfer ban? The reason they are fucked is because every man and his dog is going to sue the living daylights out of them, they will win, and man city will have to cover those costs out of the SCR regulations. We're talking hundreds of millions... several hundreds of millions. Miss out on champions league footy... you can sue. Miss out on europea league... you can sue... Knocked out the FA cup semi final... you can sue... Stoke and Watford have both just won an FA cup and are due compensation for missing out on europe... Any European side that they knocked out during the period when they breached Uefa FFP rules... you would imagine they may also have a case... They have also financially doped their squad through illegal hidden payments and raised the cost of all teams in the premier league (and wide football league) over the period of a decade (give or take)... Goes on and on. Saints can make a claim that they damaged our champions league chances (we finished 3 points behind them in 4th)... equally they've poached youth academy starlets off of us through inflated wages and raised the cost of competing in the premier league. On the most simple level. Every single club in the league will be able to claim along the lines that they have missed out on one position's worth of prize money for each season where city broke the spending rules...

Plus side, 3 automatic spots this season...