The least we can say is that the list is long. On Monday February 6, the Premier League detailed, in a press release, the potential breaches of financial rules alleged against Manchester City between 2009 and 2018 – or during the first nine seasons following the takeover of 80% of the club by Abu Dhabi. In total, a hundred violations that an independent commission is now responsible for examining, said the organizing body of the English football championship. The debates within the latter will be “confidential” and there will be no comments on this file ” until further notice “adds the Premier League.
From 2009 to 2018, the Mancunian formation won three titles of champion of England (2012, 2014, 2018), the most successful sequence of its hundred and forty-three years of history. During this period, she would also, in particular, have violated the league regulations requiring the supply “in good faith” d’“accurate financial information giving a true and fair view of the financial situation of the club”. Among the information required: “receipts (including sponsorship income), its related parts and operating costs”.
The Premier League also reports alleged violations of the rules of financial fair play (FFP) enacted by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), to which members of the English championship must comply. In February 2020, UEFA banned Manchester City from its competitions, for a period of two years, because of “serious offences” at FFP. But the sanction had been canceled by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in July of the same year. The CAS considering that the elements gathered by UEFA were not established or were prescribed.
The formation is also accused of not having respected the obligation to include “all the details of the manager’s remuneration” between the 2009-10 and 2012-2013 seasons, when the Italian Roberto Mancini, current coach of the Nazionale, held the reins of the Citizens. Ditto for the requirements, imposed on a club, “to include full details of players’ remuneration in the relevant contracts”.
From a simple reprimand to exclusion from the championship
The icing on the cake: the Premier League criticizes Manchester City for not having complied, since December 2018, with the rules which require its members to cooperate and assist the body in its investigations.
Of the “allegations” who have ” surprised “ the interested. Mancunian leaders say having delivered “a large quantity of detailed documents” and specify welcoming “ favorably the examination of this matter by an independent commission in order to impartially consider all the irrefutable evidence that exists in support of its position”.
Under Premier League regulations, the North of England outfit face penalties ranging from a simple reprimand, exclusion from the league, and point(s) deduction, if found guilty by the Premier League. commission. This can also condition the sanctions, subject to appeal, to the realization of corrective actions within a given time.
In the spring of 2022, Manchester City won their sixth Premier League title since taking over the Abu Dhabi United Group consortium, owned by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in 2008. Pep Guardiola’s Citizens currently occupy second place in the standings, five points behind leaders Arsenal.
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But despite dominating English football, the outfit have yet to win the Champions League, reaching the final only once, in 2021. In 8es first leg of the C1, they will travel to Leipzig on February 22.
Crowned club of the year at the 2022 Ballon d’Or ceremony, Manchester City announced last November that it had achieved a record turnover of 613 million pounds (685.9 million euros) and a earnings of £41.7m (€46.7m) in the 2021-22 season. Its chairman, Khaldoon Al Mubarak, said at the time that City were pursuing “unprecedented goals”.
« [Dès 2008], our goal was clear: to one day be the club that sets the benchmark for others. The statistics and results show that, in many ways, we are beginning to realize our long-term ambition. »
On the sidelines of the Premier League procedure, the Spanish league announced in June that it had lodged a complaint with UEFA against the English club, targeting the conditions for the transfer of Norwegian Erling Haaland, as well as against Paris Saint-Germain, supported him financially by Qatar, for the extension of Kylian Mbappé.
