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Sweeping the buying of players through mass financial cheating, under the carpet. Guardiola should not have that squad of 25 talents.

My thoughts exactly. We've had a lucky run where the cheating petrostates failed. The PSG case is ridiculous. In a Mickey Mouse league, in a short space of time they bought Neymar, Messi and Mbappe, on astonishing wages.

Real Madrid cheated. Discount the years under Franco. Spain was poor but somehow his club hoovered up the world’s best players. Early sports washing / a fascist’s vanity project. Then every time they got into financial trouble in the last 25 years, a standing joke, they’d sell the same real...

I can even remember some of the reasons why. Fiorentina reckoned corruption gave Juve a narrow title win, was it in the 80’s? Probably true in hindsight!? The Baggio transfer added fuel to that. Napoli …. a Mezzogiorno loathing of the wealthy north, exemplified by Juve.

I forgot about tribal hatred within Italy :lolol: . Fiorentina, Roma, Napoli and AC Milan fans would all love Juve to crash down the divisions.

Proven cheats, only off the hook at CAS because they used several top firms of lawyers to drag it out for years. Of illegal payments to UK staff in the Middle East, with commercial income seasons back that mysteriously was greater than each of Bayern, Barca, Real and Manure …. yeah right. City...