• TheBatPencil@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Or it could be that they backchanneled the money required to pay Hazard’s agent, through these holding companies, so that a) they could avoid paying any tax on it and b) they wouldn’t have to declare it to football’s governing bodies

    Hey, this is awfully familiar.

  • WeSavedLives@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    All well and good while he as still pumping money into the sport. Now he’s gone its a problem, huh?

  • NotClayMerritt@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Just going to quickly editorialise here, but I have no idea why you’d tell on yourself like that

    He says as he’s writing an entire article that have Chelsea linked to a bigger International scandal that the Premier League would have undoubtedly found out about anyway and triggered an inevitable investigation.

  • calewis10@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Morality aside, to me it doesn’t seem like the amounts would be enough to put them in the red and fall foul of FPP?

  • lucash7@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Right.

    Points deduction for CFC, but a bank account and routing number for Man City….

    🙄

  • Luke92612_@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Let’s see:

    In 2045, City will be in the National League North; Man U will be in the Championship; Chelsea will be in League 1, and Everton will be in League 2.

  • MikeoPlus@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Yeah right next thing they’re gonna try and say is that the British invented the term soccer

  • bhodrolok@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Point deduction is hilarious, their league titles should be rescinded. Where’s the integrity of the competition for those seasons?

  • treq10@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I’ll take the points deduction if it means City get blasted back to the Stone Age