Imagine crying about a fictional "cartel" asset-stripping Bournemouth when your own club is the only one that actually spent £105M to gut their squad (Aké & Semenyo). But let's talk about the real delusion here: focusing on the rules is a classic deflection to distract from industrial financial fraud. Complaining about spending rules is not a defense for cheating. Bournemouth has achieved its historic success by working hard, scouting brilliantly, and completely following the rules. They didn’t need an underground £830M disguised funding scheme or "sham" state contracts to build a squad capable of smashing elite European clubs. The real tragedy? If certain clubs hadn't fraudulently pumped artificial state money into the system, creating a toxic hyper-inflation of player wages and transfer fees organically run teams like Bournemouth would be even further along. Sovereign state doping didn't "save" football, it broke the economic ladder for the clubs that actually play by the book. Stop using whataboutism to shield your dirty conviction on 114 counts of corporate deception.

They weren't found guilty of "trying to match spending" you were convicted of system-wide industrial corporate fraud that has irreversibly damaged English football. City used fraudulent quantitative easing to inject close to £1B of disguised state cash into the system. That artificial monopoly money is exactly what triggered the hyper-inflation of player wages and transfer fees across the entire pyramid. Football clubs, just like banks, car manufacturers, airlines, and utilities operate under strict regulatory limits. Every major multinational is restricted by how much external capital can be dumped into them by super-billionaires and hostile nation-states to protect market competition. Dressing up systematic sports fraud as a "Robin Hood story" is absolutely laughable. Stop parroting these desperate lies to protect a multi-billion-pound scam. What you did to the game is vile.