Football The 2026-27 Football Thread

[Embattle]

Good god they talk bollocks:

Soccer superstar Kylian Mbappé on ending 20-year journey with Nike: 'It was time to change'

Soccer Champion Kylian Mbappé said he was ready for "change" after ending his association with Nike and entering a deal with Swiss sportswear brand On.

www.cnbc.com

 

[Raven]

oof @City.

 

[Raven]

Being a Football manager player, I wonder if any of the players have relegation release clauses in their contracts? It always used to be a nice little bargaining chip in the game, I often wonder how many players actually have them.

 

[Gray]

Worrying time for Everton!

 

[Embattle]

oof @City.

Once properly announced, the legal case will continue.

 

[Raven]

Once properly announced, the legal case will continue.

It's going to roll on for years. Not just any FA punishments, but civil cases being brought by other clubs. Then there is the real world financial shenanigans, money being hidden on the balance sheet etc. They could be completely anhilated.

 

[Ormorof]

Should be the folks at FA who approved this nonsense to begin with that should be thrown under the bus. They knew exactly what was going to happen when they approved the take over. They can’t act all indignant and shocked when it happened exactly as predicted.

Man City was breaking the rules, and everyone knew it. Was not exactly a secret they were spending bucketloads of cash.

They will get a slap on the wrist and everything will move on is my prediction. They are too important to the money making side of the premier league to punish harshly

 

[Scouse]

They'll get some sort of punishment that will be percieved as "harsh" but they'll bounce back in a couple of years.

The rules around spending are based on income, no? And generating income means a large fanbase generated by being a serial winner. So after their "punishment" they'll be able to spend like clubs that have generated their base over multiple generations.

 

[Scouse]

So:

Rui Pinto: The hacker who tried to take down Manchester City

BBC Sport travelled to Portugal to find out more about Rui Pinto - the computer hacker who sparked the Manchester City investigation.

www.bbc.co.uk

The article hints at the majority position is that he's a criminal. What's yooz's positions?

I've spoken about whistleblowers on FH before and often been surprised at the depth of feeling against them.

It's clear he's no angel, but my opinion is if you uncover wholesale institutional criminality you should be immediately be made immune from prosecution and/or deportation no matter how you obtained your evidence.

 

[Gwadien]

Isn't a whistleblower someone that works for the company involved?

 

[Deebs]

Isn't a whistleblower someone that works for the company involved?

That is my understanding. I fully support white hat hackers as they do help ensure software/systems are robust and not prone to the millions of kiddy hackers.

 

[Deebs]

So:

Rui Pinto: The hacker who tried to take down Manchester City

BBC Sport travelled to Portugal to find out more about Rui Pinto - the computer hacker who sparked the Manchester City investigation.

www.bbc.co.uk

The article hints at the majority position is that he's a criminal. What's yooz's positions?Um

I've spoken about whistleblowers on FH before and often been surprised at the depth of feeling against them.

It's clear he's no angel, but my opinion is if you uncover wholesale institutional criminality you should be immediately be made immune from prosecution and/or deportation no matter how you obtained your evidence.

I cannot agree with your last sentence.

I kill some fucker and obtained the evidence you required I am now immune from prosecution as I did get the evidence you wanted. Nah. I know that is taking it to the extreme but this is just one interpretation of your

be made immune from prosecution and/or deportation no matter how you obtained your evidence.

 

[Scouse]

I kill some fucker and obtained the evidence ..

Exactly where my mate went at breakfast.

So, to indulge your silly extreme argument: if you're stood in front of a guy who's willing to pony up all the evidence required to bust open and prosecute a conspiracy, involving over 100 people in two countries that deceived a country into going to war, killing 500,000 innocent civilians and paupering a country in the war effort, only to enrich themselves and their families, which also caused 40,000 deaths of civilians in their country because health spending was tradjuced, but he'll only give it you if he can watch you kill a baby with a hammer, whilst he has a wank...

Yeah. Do it.

But it's a bullshit argument anyway - he hacked shit, found loads of criminal wrongdoing - not limited to city - also wholesale tax evasion in multiple countries by multiple clubs and individuals - and he didn't kill anyone.

Last point: The only two people who went to jail for the 2008 financial crash were the two guys who whistleblew that they were instructed to fix the libor interbanking rates by their bosses.

We sent those guys to jail. Not anyone else.

 

[Deebs]

Exactly where my mate went at breakfast.

So, to indulge your silly extreme argument: if you're stood in front of a guy who's willing to pony up all the evidence required to bust open and prosecute a conspiracy, involving over 100 people in two countries that deceived a country into going to war, killing 500,000 innocent civilians and paupering a country in the war effort, only to enrich themselves and their families, which also caused 40,000 deaths of civilians in their country because health spending was tradjuced, but he'll only give it you if he can watch you kill a baby with a hammer, whilst he has a wank...

Yeah. Do it.

But it's a bullshit argument anyway - he hacked shit, found loads of criminal wrongdoing - not limited to city - also wholesale tax evasion in multiple countries by multiple clubs and individuals - and he didn't kill anyone.

Last point: The only two people who went to jail for the 2008 financial crash were the two guys who whistleblew that they were instructed to fix the libor interbanking rates by their bosses.

We sent those guys to jail. Not anyone else.

So if you commit a crime to whistleblow on a crime that is ok? Let's take that and expand, the whistleblower commited a hacking crime and made it public, one of those named then killed themselves, it is ok he had it coming? Nah keep on frothing. And your extreme "similar" crime is not even the same but hey ho.

 

[Scouse]

So, if, for example, this whistleblower made public evidence of tax evasion (which happened in this case) - but instead of getting prosecuted by the authorities and getting a big fine, the tax evader killed himself?

Yeah. I'm OK with that.

 

[Embattle]

PL has announced:

Premier League Statement: Manchester City FC

www.premierleague.com

 

[Deebs]

PL has announced:

Premier League Statement: Manchester City FC

www.premierleague.com

Just reading that and I know it is the PL but falsifying accounts does that mean HMRC will want to take a gander at all the stuff the PL has and what Manchester Cheaty has filed?