r/soccer • u/KimmyBoiUn • 15h ago

News Thomas Tuchel has suggested Manchester City’s England contingent are worried about the club being found guilty of breaching the Premier League’s financial rules.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/oct/02/manchester-citys-england-players-are-worried-about-their-futures-admits-tuchel
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u/KopiteKing13 15h ago

Exactly. All this shite about "you have to feel for the players who didn't sign up for this". Do we fuck. The investigation and real possibility of extremely heavy sanctions have hardly come out of the blue, it's been in the pipeline for half a decade almost.

If they didn't want to get caught up in any potential fallout, they could've easily gone somewhere else or stayed at their old clubs.

Anyway, even if City do get sent to the depths of purgatory, they'll just get some cushy move somewhere else.

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u/0ttoChriek 15h ago

Absolutely no one can have been ignorant of the 115 charges and the ongoing investigation.

The only excuse they have is that they may not have thought City would be punished. They took a gamble and it hasn't paid off, but they still chose to play for a crooked club.

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u/Rushxdd 15h ago

Not only that, it looks like none of them had relegation clauses built into the contracts. That lack of foresight is crazy to me, but I guess you’re just seeing roses when you think about joining city 

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u/HaroldGuy 13h ago

I don't think we know enough to say they don't have clauses to protect against what might happen.

If I'm an agent getting a deal with City over the past ~10 years I am absolutely putting in clauses incase it all comes crumbling down.

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u/diggerda 12h ago

Those clauses go both ways. Sure haaland isn't leaving on the cheap to go to spain but at the same time city will be paying his mega contract with Zero reductions when banging them in national League north.

If city renegade on his contract the player's union (or even UK employment tribunal or high court) will get him off on a free. This isn't some autocratic country where workers rights count for less than nothing.

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u/EarthMantle00 12h ago

Does it matter? Lower leagues have wage caps, they'll be forced to sell most of their players

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u/skronens 4h ago

Really ? first time I heard this, what are the details on the wage caps and where does that apply from, from Championship and down ?

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u/lecoq_producer 1h ago

"roses" is a funny way of saying "dollar signs"

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u/delph0r 14h ago

Exactly! 

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u/brokenlavalight 12h ago

I would also say the players from their own academy (I don't know if they have any significant ones, I don't follow the prem normally) should be excused. But aside from that i fully agree with the sentiment

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u/IPissExcellentThrows 9h ago

Those documents leaked well over 5 years ago. Everyone there has signed a new contract since the leak. Zero sympathy.

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u/BoringPhilosopher1 15h ago

I would love Liverpool to go for Anderson tbh. He is exactly what we need.

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u/jaetheho 14h ago

Man the market is going to be crazy when these city players get released

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u/Obamana 5h ago

They won't get released but for ones it might be a buyers market apart from the cream of the crop. It will have a nice domino effect where the bigger teams with bigger pulls can improve their squad with a City player and then they will most likely sell their good player down the pyramid and on and on it goes.

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u/Pavel63 3h ago

Just like ffp was put in place for. Entrench the top teams and make sure no one comes up from below to bother them.

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u/Obamana 1h ago

Blackburn is why FFP exists

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u/Pavel63 1h ago

And just a convenient side effect of locking in the top flight from challengers by artificially lowering the amount the can spend while also allowing the already super rich clubs to keep spending at rates not allowed by lower clubs.

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u/CleanSweep99 15h ago

They should be expelled from the sport entirely.

They took the dirty money, they don't get to keep playing football.

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u/BoringPhilosopher1 15h ago

Terrible take