114 charges. What is "City" being accused of?

114 charges. What is "City" being accused of?

Now "City" could be stripped of points, face a transfer ban for several transfer windows, and in the worst-case scenario, be expelled from the English top division. Just like what once happened to "Juventus". Believe me, the current situation of "City" is even worse than that of "Juve" during the Calciopoli era.

Football has long been a game of billions: while being the most popular sport, it is also a massive business, a major source of income, and a powerful PR tool. In the last decade, especially wealthy individuals have started making a name for themselves through football and have turned to using this beautiful game as a "soft power" to project a positive image. In our country too, there have been many instances where regional governors allocated incredibly large sums from the budget to local clubs to boost their reputation among the public, and dozens of examples can be cited.

For Europeans, wealthy Asians pouring money into the continent's major clubs without looking back and gaining an edge over others in competition was seen as a serious problem, and UEFA came up with a rule called financial fair play. That is, investing money in clubs is not prohibited, but income must exceed expenses. A great rule, keeping both the skewer and the meat from burning.

But the wealthy Asians are not simple either; there is no one to match them when it comes to bypassing financial restrictions! For example, at a time when the best players cost 80-90 million euros, they shook the market by paying 222 million euros for Neymar. Since Neymar was offered a huge salary, they paid half of it from the club, and the rest "for being a tourism ambassador of Qatar." Roberto Mancini received even more money than his salary at "City" ostensibly "for being a consultant" at the UAE club "Al Jazira."

A very familiar scheme, isn't it? But for Europe, this is unacceptable fraud, a dishonesty contrary to democratic traditions. In the cases of PSG and "Man City," fans could see the violation of financial fair play without any investigation, while the Arab wealthy just smiled as if mocking the European lawmakers.

But they forgot that "what goes up must come down." Now, that day has come. The rule that money should not undermine competition in football has worked. Now "City" could be stripped of all trophies won over 9 years. Unless the Arabs manage to get out of this scandal too. After all, among people prone to corruption, in whose minds the dream of criminal money lives, the criminal phrase "what money cannot solve, big money will solve" did not spread for no reason.