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″Thanks to the Football Leaks revelations″

The investigated period covers the 2009/10 to 2017/18 seasons, the first nine seasons that Manchester City spent under the ownership of the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi,

Manchester City, two-time Premier League champions, will have to answer to an independent Premier League commission for numerous breaches of financial regulations during the period between 2009 and 2018, the organization announced.

A piece of news that Rui Pinto published on Twitter. “The Premier League has just accused Manchester City of various financial irregularities, in an investigation that began thanks to the Football Leaks revelations,” said the whistleblower.

The Premier League forwarded the alleged irregularities to an independent commission, which include failures to provide mandatory detailed financial information, such as remuneration of players and members of the technical team, led by the Spaniard Pep Guardiola, in addition to failures related to compliance with fair rules Financial -play.

The investigated period covers the seasons 2009/10 to 2017/18, the first nine seasons that Manchester City spent under the ownership of the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi, during which the “citizens” won three titles of English champion, in 2012, 2014 and 2018.

Manchester City, runners-up in the English league for the 2022/23 season, behind Arsenal, has one of the most valuable squads in world football, keeping three Portuguese international footballers under contract: João Cancelo, loaned to Bayern Munich in January, Rúben Dias and Bernard Silva.

In February 2020, the club was provisionally suspended by UEFA from participating in European competitions for a period of two years, for breaches of financial fair-play rules, but the sanction was overturned after appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, in July of that year.

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