Surely it would place a massive asterisk on all the trophies won during his time at Man City? In future discussions on the greatest manager would this be a talking point which stains our perception on him? Or will he still be lauded as the greatest by some despite the wider context?
It would make all his achievements at city null and void. If you can’t win within the rules, you are effectively a cheat.
Come on now, how’s Pep got anything to do with the financials. He’s got no clue if they’ve been breaking FFP rules.
Pep had the bank account in Andorra to hide income as alleged by the Spanish tax authorities. The SkySports article re the Man City FFP violations says:
“Allegedly, they did not fully disclose the financial remunerations that were made to one of their managers over a four-year period. The suggestion is that there was a secret contract so one of the managers was getting paid much more than officially stated.”
Who do you suppose that one manager was? One of the assistants probably wouldn’t be getting paid enough to matter. https://www.skysports.com/amp/football/news/11679/12804623/man-city-premier-league-charges-explained-what-are-they-what-could-punishment-be-whats-the-timescale
Like Liverpool hacking Man City’s scouting data illegally and then going on to win success.
Glad we can call everyone out for cheating, cheating is cheating and if you can’t play by the rules then your success means nothing.
Well the Liverpool league win already means nothing because of Covid. I often forget it even happened.
You mean the season we had amassed enough points, pre-Covid, to win the league? Literally 25 point ahead in February but ours gets called the Covid title. City in 20-21 played in empty stadiums for about 30 games and it barely gets questioned 😂
The league win that we had wrapped up by Christmas doesn’t count because a literal deadly force of nature tried (and failed) to stop us?
Can I get the number for your copium dealer? Cause it looks like good shit.
We all knew they were cheating even before he got there and he was part of various scandals, being it with referees, corruption, players, shady deals and so on, even from his time at Barcelona and even form his time as a player.
I never considered him the best manager. He is the one willing to do anything it takes and to make his hands dirty, yes.
Agree. He would never take on a lower half PL team, because he would be found out. They can’t afford the bribes and rule breaking to secure success.
No, it’s because he’s way too good for any of them. He’s even way too good for ol’ Yanited, who have a shite Pep wannabee rn. Do you also cry that Messi and Ronaldo are frauds because they only played for the biggest richest clubs and that they would be found out at a smaller club?
He’d walk away unscathed to the next club with an endless pot of oil money.
I am biased but why would this taint anything?
The club have been questioned, not the manager or the players.
The manager and players still did everything they did last season, regardless of the money within the club. It has nothing to do with the individual achievements but the achievements of the club.
It would void everything that was achieved during the relevant periods. Financial doping is what it is, doping. If you cheated to win in a sport, you didn’t win, and you may as well have not played at all.