The City verdict deserves a conversation about the reputations of the various parties involved. City's for organising the fraud, the Premier League's for taking eight years and letting itself be outmuscled by lawyers, and Pep Guardiola's, since virtually everything he won at City was built on financial cheating he spent years publicly denying.
There's an awkward political dimension too. City are owned by the UAE, a UK security and investment partner, and there’s scepticism that the other 19 clubs would vote for expulsion given how many owners have their own business ties to the Gulf. Given that, how might any punishment be constructed, and what might be just?
On Pep specifically, there’s a pattern running from his playing days through Barcelona to City. The drugs, the money, the lies, the denial. His legacy is now inseparable from the fraud that funded it.
Then there are the broadcasters who’ve pretended none of this was happening. Shame on them.
0:27 114 of 115 charges
2:32 Reputations in the toilet
4:52 Why spending limits exist
9:27 Can City rebuild?
14:17 Nation-state ownership and the UAE
19:36 Would clubs vote to expel City?
27:00 What punishment actually fits
32:57 Charge stacking and precedent
38:28 Getting the owners out
39:24 Pep's legacy
45:30 Sudan, sportswashing and silence
47:50 How the media cover it
55:04 Fan reaction
58:04 What happens next
1:00:06 Wrap
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