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[stealthpapes]

Elabor8....

By your logic, if a team has reached the last four of the top European club competition, they are one of the top four clubs in Europe.

Therefore if a team reaches the top of the league, they must be the best squad in the league.

The one that leads the table is the best team, not necessarily the best sqaud.

That makes even less sense, imo.

[Royalclapper]

Despite a change in management and loads of investment there's still something about city which makes them look far from the finished article. Their seemingly unstoppable run of goals and form made them look title winners all the way at one point - Aguero's injury was a blow obviously, but still.

Think they're lacking a bit of cohesiveness overall that's costing them, just buying everyone you want and hope they gel isn't enough. Mourinho & Rodgers have what arguably is a weaker squad of players but have more of a purposeful direction of shaping their team's systems. Pellegrini has only marginally (if at all) improved on what Mancini did, although he could well achieve more, it's not that certain atm.

[Whatevs]

still think City can nick the title

[TBM]

still think City can nick the title

I'm not gonna predict until after Sundays game between Liverpool and Chelsea

[leww_rfc]

I'm not going to predict till one of the 3 teams at the top of the table have the trophy in their hands.

[TBM]

I hope it goes to the last game, like when City won it a couple of years back

What i would like to happen is

Chelsea to beat Liverpool and City to beat Palace - which will see the table

Liverpool - 80
Chelsea - 78
City - 77

Then Liverpool Chelsea and City all match each other next weekend - City then win their game in hand........taking it to the last game of the season, with 3 teams capable of winning the league

[No Fixed Abode]

I hope it goes to the last game, like when City won it a couple of years back

What i would like to happen is

Chelsea to beat Liverpool and City to beat Palace - which will see the table

Liverpool - 80
Chelsea - 78
City - 77

Then Liverpool Chelsea and City all match each other next weekend - City then win their game in hand........taking it to the last game of the season, with 3 teams capable of winning the league

Would be a great last day. If we beat Liverpool, I can see City winning it on goal difference, although Everton away is the key game for them now......

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Manchester City and Paris St-Germain are facing sanctions after breaching Uefa's financial fair play (FFP) rules.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27198306

[Whatevs]

so Liverpool could be cheated out of a title that was rightfully theirs. I think morally Liverpool have already won it

[sandman]

The likes of Liverpool and Man United voted for these oppressive trade restriction methods based on income to make sure they stayed as, or in Liverpool's case got back to being, part of the elite. Thus trying to close down the opportunities for the likes of Man City and Chelsea to chase the dream through ambitious owners. As Neville and Carragher said last night, it's wrong and destroys any challenge the elite establishment clubs might face.

I think we know who the real villains are and it ain't Man City or Paris St Germain.

[Sanguine]

The likes of Liverpool and Man United voted for these oppressive trade restriction methods based on income to make sure they stayed as, or in Liverpool's case got back to being, part of the elite. Thus trying to close down the opportunities for the likes of Man City and Chelsea to chase the dream through ambitious owners. As Neville and Carragher said last night, it's wrong and destroys any challenge the elite establishment clubs might face.

I think we know who the real villains are and it ain't Man City or Paris St Germain.

You're trying way too hard now.

[sandman]

Don't need to 'try' at all to wind up Liverpool fans as anything said against them, no matter how true, is pounced apon by your militant fan base.

However, this is a view on FFP I have had for a while and it is a view that was echoed last night on SKY Monday Night Football by Gary Neville and your own club legend Jamie Carragher.

FFP restricts the likes of Chelsea and Man City from challenging the football establishment. If it was in place in the 90's it would have stopped a club like Blackburn winning the PL. In fact it may well have stopped a certain club from Berkshire from being promoted to the top division of English football.

FFP is a noble idea but it is very poorly executed.

[Brum Royal]

Plus fining a club who are prepared to lose £100+m a season is likely to have little impact anyway, regardless of whether it's City, Chelsea, PSG, Real or whoever.

[Sanguine]

Don't need to 'try' at all to wind up Liverpool fans as anything said against them, no matter how true, is pounced apon by your militant fan base.

However, this is a view on FFP I have had for a while and it is a view that was echoed last night on SKY Monday Night Football by Gary Neville and your own club legend Jamie Carragher.

FFP restricts the likes of Chelsea and Man City from challenging the football establishment. If it was in place in the 90's it would have stopped a club like Blackburn winning the PL. In fact it may well have stopped a certain club from Berkshire from being promoted to the top division of English football.

FFP is a noble idea but it is very poorly executed.

Pretty pathetic use of 'your'. And you might want to look up the difference between 'income' and 'operating losses'.

Chelsea have won 3 PL titles, 6 cups and two European trophies including the Champions League in the last decade. City won the league in 2012 and have also picked up 2 cup wins in the last three seasons. FFP doesn't stop them 'challenging the establishment', they have become very much part of it by weight of their financial backing.

If United (for example) can win countless titles whilst remaining 'solvent' (as decreed by UEFA's FFP regulations) and City can't; why is that English football's problem?

The problem - I am pre-empting - with FFP is not the execution of its structure but the implementation of its 'punishments' which, if rumours are anything to go by, won't go far enough.

[Sanguine]

Plus fining a club who are prepared to lose £100+m a season is likely to have little impact anyway, regardless of whether it's City, Chelsea, PSG, Real or whoever.

If a £10m fine (say) counts towards their accumulated losses then I'm all for it, as much as I would also prefer competition sanctions.

[No Fixed Abode]

Plus fining a club who are prepared to lose £100+m a season is likely to have little impact anyway, regardless of whether it's City, Chelsea, PSG, Real or whoever.

Hey, we're not in breach. HTH.

[Sanguine]

Telegraph says that the offer made to City is a fine plus a reduction to their CL squad size for next season.

[Mr Angry]

The ONLY way clubs will fall into line with the FFP rules is if they are banned from competing in the Champions League; anything else is just meaningless.

[stealthpapes]

Telegraph says that the offer made to City is a fine plus a reduction to their CL squad size for next season.

That struck me as a half-decent way of penalising clubs over this.

[Sanguine]

Manchester City are facing Uefa sanctions for breaching financial fair play rules which would see the club limited to a 21-man Champions League squad instead of the usual 25 players next season, Press Association Sport is reporting.

City, who are still strongly challenging the settlement offer from Uefa, are also facing a fine in the region of £49m over three years, and a cap imposed for next season to ensure there is no rise on this season's Champions League squad wage bill. The reduction in the size of the Champions League squad to 21 would potentially hit the club hardest, and City would also have to ensure that there are still eight locally-trained players in that A squad.

City have until the end of the week to reach an agreement with Uefa over the sanctions.

All seems very well done by UEFA.