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Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher says Reds were robbed of titles by Man City breaches

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They said that, for years, they had that type of income coming in - it's impossible for that to ever happen, no matter how successful Manchester City are."Number two - the fact that they've said, continuously over this period, that they've done nothing wrong and that they've got irrefutable evidence. This has dragged on for years."The reason I'm shocked is because I never believed the Premier League would be able to beat them in a court of law, because of the power and the finances that Manchester City have behind them, so a huge well done to the Premier League for the result they have."The £900m Paperwork Scheme and Anfield's Legal RecourseThe independent commission’s findings detail how City concealed operational expenses and overstated commercial income to bypass both Premier League Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR) and UEFA Financial Fair Play (FFP) limits.



Now, one of those reasons he may have chosen, maybe was his wages, that maybe were inflated because of the situation around Man City and what they've been charged with."But if he sits there at the end of his career now and the whole world looks at his Manchester City career of 10 years of service and look at it as a sham, and I keep using that word, that's the word the Premier League used, I'd be furious. But I've actually been thinking about the Manchester City players and how they feel.

What Manchester City's hierarchy are coming out with in the last couple of days as well, they're just gaslighting the players, their ex-players, their supporters, because those people want to believe them so much. They've got such strong relationships with them, they want to believe it right now."I think the longer this goes on, the more you'll see less support from maybe ex-City players and more frustration about maybe how their careers are going to be viewed by the outside world."An unprecedented shadow over the upcoming Anfield clashThe fallout from the independent commission's 115-charge finding comes at a volatile moment on the pitch.