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anchester City’s two-year ban from all UEFA competitions for breaching European financial fair play regulations might help West Ham in advance of the rescheduled game on Wednesday night.
With the Premier League championship all but out of reach City were playing a Champions League place which they are now banned from taking up.
The Manchester side could also face sanctions from the Premier League including a ten-point deduction or even relegation to League two in an extreme outcome.
City manager Pep Guardiola job remains in question and the club is embroiled in a global media frenzy over alleged concealed payments to inflate sponsorship deals, which allowed the club to falsely meet financial fair play regulations.
Manchester City have two Premier League games before a Champions League game in Spain against Real Madrid one week after they play the Hammers.
David Moyes will be hoping that Guardiola uses the West Ham game to rest some senior players or try out some of his youngsters.
I think that’s what you call “clutching at straws”sean.
Don’t mind a bit of straw clutching 🙂
Ha ha ha was just about to put that myself..but as hugh says well take anything 😂
I can see where you’re trying to come from with this article Sean , clutching at straws comes to mind IMO Only a couple of weeks back we couldn’t beat Leicester’s reserve team and that was on our own turf ?? Our squad is going to step up quite a few levels to realise the pickle we are in ? So like you we can only hope they give it a good go and not depend on other aspects!!!
Let’s get even more optimistic – if City are sent down, there will only be two teams relegation spots….
Now this idea I like the sound of…
if City go down can we just swap squads? 🤷🏻♂️
It might be hard for City players to be 100% focussed on the game – but the only thing we can control is the performance that we put in – how about two draws (Liverpool will probably drop points at some stage this season) and a win over the Saints
COYI
ROFL Squad yes stadium er nope. Manger yes owner naaaaaaaah. Build up that famous WH Academy.
Pipe dream, depending on what you smoking of course… Citeh reserve side far, far better than us… We need that reserve side to be at 50%, get a red card. hit the woodwork 3 times and then we may get a draw… LOL and of course miracles do happen.. 🤣😅😂
Can we please stop the sarcasm and give our players credit they did play very well , and we aren’t very far and everyone is talking in a demoralizing way, please let me remind you that the game of Sheffield United we lost a well deserved point … but they said that The ball hit Declan’s hand …. we lost two points because Glen Murray Scores using his arm, so in total that’s 3 points lost, has anyone realized that penalties given on us are hardly penalties var or no var…. shall I go on ???? But for us to get a penalty we have to get injured and go out for a few months ….then we get awarded a penalty…. it’s a shame that we have reached this stage ,4 years we have always been close to relegation… I just hope that Saudi or Red Bull own us maybe then we can be considered probably as one of the permanent top six