Whale.io 🐳 | ⚽ English Premier League Season: 2026/2027

[igebotz]

Without a doubt their main concern must be to avoid being relegated or being expelled from the football league entirely. Regarding the commission, several ex-footballers that have demanded strong action is taken against Manchester City are also stating that nobody knows who the panel of experts were in the independent commission and why it was held in secrecy. I am still quite sure the commission will not be pressured before they announce the punishment, they will hand out an appropriate sanction.

Maybe relegating them outrightly may may cause some controversy I'd suggest they deduct 60 points from the team this season and allow them to decide their fate. That alone is enough to relegate any team unless they can pull 100 points which is impossible.

Someone from Portugal isn't happy and decided to kick him out to expose him to more danger - either they got paid to kick him out or someone was benefiting from City's fraudulent deals

They don't even need to get paid for that. It could just be another extremist fan who was supposedly going to make billions from the clubs, say prediction sites. Ehh, that says a lot about his people--- if your own can rat you out for a foreigner in a life and death situation like this, it says a lot about the Portuguese.

About $27k donations so far https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-rui-pintos-life-football-leaks-whistleblower

[tokeweed]

Finally we have the EPL back this coming weekend.  I mean wtf is it with a couple of weeks of international football that nobody really cares about most of the time.  Maybe do a week...  But two? 

But yeah, I've started using AI for making my degen parlays for me in the UFC thread.  Lol.  Might start doing the same for the EPL too.  Just gotta find the right sites to get the stats to feed AI.

I've been using Grok AI on Dota and Tennis parlays and it's x3 better than I am on those markets/sports - I sometimes use it on a 50-50 football games  to get some good markets out of it. But there's no fun in that...

The fun part is the process of developing your model via AI. 

Anyway I made my bets for the EPL with 'my little helpers'.    So what I do is run the same prompt on ChatGPT, Claude, Qwen and Gemini.  If 4 of them have the same pick on a particular match then I bet on it.  For this weekend I got only a couple of matches that came out.  Arsenal to win at 1.39 and Brighton to win...  But for the Brighton match I bet on 'Sunderland winner = No' at 1.45.

I just hate the chance of a draw with that match.

[JollyGood]

Football fans from across the world are waiting for the sanctions to be announced. All sorts of possible punishments are being mentioned from a massive points deduction as you mentioned to a fixed points deduction every year for each of the years they had been cheating. Also, immediate relegation is another alogn with a financial penalty and transfer bans.

Pochettino mentioned that after the new Tottenham Hotspur Stadium was announced and under construction, he was unable to buy players that he wanted to strengthen the squad because the then chairman (Levy) told him they could not allocate funds for players because they had to stay within the fair play rules. I think Tottenham have a strong case as had Manchester City not cheated they finished 2nd by seven points in 2016/17 behind Chelsea. They also finished third and fourth in some seasons.

Everton also have a strong case as they finished 5th in the Premier League on one occasion and missed out on the Champions League because Mnachester City were occupying one of the top four positions. Other teams that could have played Europa League football  (including Everton) but missed out because Manchester City were cheating, also have a claim.

This is going to get very interesting because as soon as the independent commission announce the punishments, Manchester City will make an immediate appeal. I think regardless of how long the appeals could take, Premier League players will get together to make a class action against Manchester City for loss of earnings and without a doubt the clubs will be lining up to take action. In both cases, they will want financial compensation.

Maybe relegating them outrightly may may cause some controversy I'd suggest they deduct 60 points from the team this season and allow them to decide their fate. That alone is enough to relegate any team unless they can pull 100 points which is impossible.