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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9478704" data-attributes="member: 7023840">If you had to boil it down, the gist of it is this-While soccer (football) doesn't have "caps" like we do in America, there are stringent rules regarding financial disclosures, and in the P.L., requirements that you don't spend more than you are fairly earning (subject to lots of legalese, because of course).The evidence/allegations are that Man City, since 2009, has been falsifying the financial data and engaging in all sorts of shenanigans in order to funnel money to the team far in excess of what they were bringing in; in effect, allowing the owner and affiliated entities of the owner to dump money into the team for players, coaches, etc., that other teams weren't allowed to do.Which has been kind of an open secret if you pay attention to the money spent (even disclosed) and the players they have acquired. I would say that, like most things, it's not just the crime, it's the coverup. The past six years of stonewalling and lying to investigators will likely be the reason (assuming the allegations are accurate) that Man City gets a major punishment. But we will see! I will defer to someone with more expertise on this ... you know, someone who doesn't default to calling it soccer. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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