h_m_boro
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Making it worse is the fact they are state owned. It's expressly forbidden. You can't do it. Everyone knows they are owned by Abu Dhabi. Wrong on every level, but FIFA have allowed it to happen ($$$$$).It's no different. It's just scale. We tried to catch up to the top by out spending others. City do that now. They might spend £100m on a player and pay them £300k but so do all the teams they are competing with. All the money from the TV deals and champions league lets them do that.
I don't disagree that the amount of money in football is terrible and it's not a fair competition but I do disagree that Man City are a special case and them winning is any worse than Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea, Madrid or Inter.
They then cook the books. Inflate sponsorships/income. Creatively manage transfers. And then get walloped with 115 cases of scullduggery.
The TV money and CL money allow them to compete at that level, blitzing what normal clubs bring in. But then the petro dollar chucked in on top of this.......just pushes them into an untouchable bracket. And before we know it the EPL has become the SPL with the only difference being the runner up changes every so often. How long before City are clean sweeping every domestic trophy, winning the treble on a frequent basis.
Meanwhile clubs are struggling financially and going bump just trying to keep up and exist.
It's not all City's fault, and they are most definitely not the only ones in this exclusive club. But it's been allowed, has massively skewed the competitiveness of our domestic game and created an unbreachable financial gulf.
Quicker they all f*ck off to their European/ World Super Duper League the better