On May 16, it was reported that Manchester City would soon achieve the fourth consecutive championship in the Premier League, which was unprecedented. The next comers were themselves.
To exaggerate, the championship of the English Premier League will belong to Manchester City forever in the future. Every season, the championship will be the Blue Moon. You can know it's him without kicking.
Why is there such a pessimistic conclusion?
We should start with the rules of fair financial competition.
UEFA began to implement FFP rules in 2009, and the Premier League's own PSR rules began in 2013.
The Abu Dhabi consortium completed the acquisition of Manchester City in September 2008. From the 2009-10 season to the 2017-18 season, there were 115 suspected violations of the PSR regulations of the Premier League.
These 115 allegations of violations mainly focus on the following aspects:
-Manchester City refused to cooperate in the review and investigation of the Premier League
-Part of Mancini's salary is paid by entities other than Manchester City
-Loss in early years exceeds the limit
-The sponsorship contract of Abu Dhabi consortium affiliated enterprises exceeds the market value
Everton and Nottingham Forest have both been deducted points, while Manchester City is safe and sound. The outside world doubts that the Premier League is bullying. The Premier League explains that the case is too complicated, and the first hearing will not be held until the end of this year.
The fact is that Manchester City has hired the strongest lawyers in the UK. Compared with the lawyers in the Premier League, they are much weaker. When converted into a football match, it is Manchester City versus Burnley!
In the past 16 years, the Abu Dhabi consortium has spent 5 billion pounds on Manchester City, of which 1.5 billion pounds was spent on transfers. The Mansur family, the owner of Manchester City, has 250 billion pounds of assets.
In 2020, UEFA imposed a two-year ban on Manchester City, but then Manchester City sued the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, CAS overturned the suspension punishment of UEFA, and finally UEFA slapped a fine of 10 million euros on Manchester City.
In fact, before the 2018-19 season, we can all see it as a process of Manchester City's brutal growth, crazy investment regardless of cost, and complete the original accumulation in a criminal way.
From the 2018-19 season onward, it is a process for Manchester City to gradually wash away.
Especially in the last four seasons, Manchester City has achieved net profits every year, the club management is scientific and rigorous, the youth training has become the benchmark of the Premier League, and the club's income has soared. From on court performance to off court operation, Manchester City can be regarded as a textbook of modern football clubs in any aspect.
Last season, Manchester City's revenue exceeded 700 million pounds, with a net profit of 80 million pounds, of which 300 million pounds came from commercial sponsorship. Many people questioned whether its commercial sponsorship contract was in compliance, and believed that the Abu Dhabi consortium affiliated enterprises had signed a sponsorship contract with Manchester City that exceeded the market value.
There are too many controversies around Manchester City. There are also too many mysteries that have not yet been solved.
Before 115 charges are settled, each title of Manchester City will be marked. "It is suspected of violating the regulations and may be canceled".
But even if the result is cancelled, it is before the 2017-18 season, and after that, there is no suspicion of violation. These champions should be retained.
The biggest tragedy is that Manchester City has already completed its primitive accumulation and become an invincible beast.
In the future, no matter how the financial fair competition rules of UEFA or the Premier League evolve, what will limit is that the midstream clubs will become stronger, while Manchester City will take advantage.
For example, Uefa allows you to spend 70% of your income on transfers and player salaries, while Manchester City has a large income base, and he still spends the most money, which also meets the requirements.
For example, if the Premier League is restricted by five times the income of the last team in the league, Manchester City can also spend 500 million pounds.
And the most frightening thing is that as the city football group starts to look for young players from around the world and send them to Manchester City, in the future, Manchester City will earn 100 million pounds even every season for the sales of young players, and that is who they want to buy.
Manchester City's lineup is already the strongest in the Premier League, and will be strengthened this summer. In the future, it will iterate with the aging of veteran players such as Debrouane, seat B and Walker. Is Gwadiol good at the back line? He is only 22 years old.
As long as Manchester City does not stop, other giants such as Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea cannot catch up with the Blue Moon.
Cup matches such as the Champions League and the FA Cup can be unexpected. You can take advantage of Manchester City's snooze to win a cold game. But in the 38 round long English Premier League, Manchester City occasionally makes mistakes, but the number of games is very small.
Arsenal is the closest to Manchester City in terms of strength, but Arsenal will also make mistakes and make more mistakes than Manchester City.
There may be incentive competition next season, which will drive the two teams to continue to improve, but Arsenal can't form a crushing lineup as quickly as Manchester City did in those years, and the current FFP and PSR do not allow it.
Liverpool will enter a long adjustment period after saying goodbye to Dirk Uncle. It will take time for Chelsea's youth team to grow. Aston Villa and Tottenham are actually at the second level, while it will take longer for Manchester United to revive.
Manchester City itself will improve a little every year, and they will not go backwards.
That is why every Premier League championship in the future will belong to Manchester City.
