{"id":1213,"date":"2026-04-01T05:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2026-04-01T05:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:22:07","slug":"115-charges-illegal-payments-to-agents-1-3bn-in-debt-match-fixing-and-accountancy-fraud-but-arsenal-are-the-bad-boys-of-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/?p=1213","title":{"rendered":"115 charges, illegal payments to agents, \u00a31.3bn in debt, match fixing and accountancy fraud. But Arsenal are the bad boys of football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-25061\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arsenal are the biggest problem in football right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\ud83d\udd34 Not Manchester City with their 115 charges<br \/>\u26aa\ufe0f Or Manchester United with \u00a31.3bn of debt<br \/>\ud83d\udd34 Nor Aston Villa with their 96% wage to turnover ratio<br \/>\u26aa\ufe0f Liverpool won the league last season at a canter, spent over \u00a3400m and are 21 points off top<br \/>\ud83d\udd34 Chelsea have just admitted to making \u00a347m of undisclosed payments<br \/>\u26aa\ufe0f Everton have twice been found guilty and hit with points deduction for breaching rules<br \/>\ud83d\udd34 Fulham are pointless (as is every other club not mentioned)<br \/>\u26aa\ufe0f Brighton\u2019s owner is faces numerous allegations around secret gambling syndicates and bets on his own team<br \/>\ud83d\udd34 Sunderland have borrowed a lot of money against future TV revenue to ease cash flow issues<br \/>\u26aa\ufe0f Newcastle are owned by a murderous regime and form part of a sports-washing project<br \/>\ud83d\udd34 Bournemouth refuse to develop a stadium suitable for the PL<br \/>\u26aa\ufe0f Crystal Palace were kicked out of the Europa League<br \/>\ud83d\udd34 Nottingham Forest are owned by a man alleged to be involved in match fixing, drug smuggling and gang violence in Greece<br \/>\u26aa\ufe0f Tottenham reemployed a manager director who had received a worldwide ban by FIFA<br \/>\ud83d\udd34 West Ham\u2019s (REDACTED)<br \/>\u26aa\ufe0f Wolves financed a PL side based on high interest loans, with relegation set to be an existential threat<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Arsenal are the problem for scoring goals from corners and having players sent home from international duty due to fitness concerns\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Keenos<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"wordads-inline-marker\" style=\"display: none;\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\">\n<p>\t\t\tThis entry was posted in Arsenal on <time class=\"entry-date\" datetime=\"2026-03-31T08:04:00+01:00\">March 31, 2026<\/time><span class=\"by-author\">  by <span class=\"author vcard\">bring us<\/span><\/span>.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-meta -->\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arsenal are the biggest problem in football right now. \ud83d\udd34 Not Manchester City with their 115 charges\u26aa\ufe0f Or Manchester United with \u00a31.3bn of debt\ud83d\udd34 Nor Aston Villa with their 96% wage to turnover ratio\u26aa\ufe0f Liverpool won the league last season at a canter, spent over \u00a3400m and are 21 points off top\ud83d\udd34 Chelsea have just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportings.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}