Just as in life, you may not like the laws of the land, but as a citizen (no pun intended) you are obliged to follow the laws. City’s punishment could be postponed pending a final outcome.įFP is a farce and Manchester City shouldn’t be punished for bucking the rules. The process could be expedited but if City lose they will almost certainly fight on by any means necessary. When you get down to it the two charges are very fact based and there seems to be very little room for nuance.Ī decision has to be reached before July 15 so England’s representation can be submitted for Europe’s two club competitions. Based on the second charge, it can be presumed that Uefa believes that City failed to comply with the investigators requests. Uefa investigators would have only needed to ask very straight forward questions and asked Manchester City to show the paper trail that supported their submitted financial statements. However, opening an investigation based on readily available public knowledge is very different than using hacked material to prove a case. Certainly, materials that were made public through Football Leaks are almost certainly hacked. We don’t know that and it is very doubtful that Uefa did. UEFA used hacked material to find Manchester City guilty. Manchester City’s emails were hacked so they can’t be used as evidence. The CAS process is generally more transparent that the Uefa process but if you don’t want embarrassing information to come out then that’s not necessarily a good thing.įurther, the CAS appeal is a fresh hearing of all evidence, essentially a new “trial”. This is what the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) does. There is a lot of social media noise surrounding the CAS and there is a lot folks guessing what the law is and what the process is. Should Manchester City win this season’s Champions League - they play Real Madrid in the round of 16 - the win could be nullified. This could lead to further fines and bans. If City has cooked the books and misled the authorities then it would seem plausible that they have continued to do so after 2016. If Manchester City has perpetrated an accounting fraud then they will also be in contravention of Premier League FFP regulations and subject to other league-specific sanctions.Īnd if that’s not enough, let’s remember that the present Uefa punishment covers just 2012 to 2016.
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Some of the permitted increases have been tied to any increase in self-generated increases (that doesn’t include Premier League TV money.) The Premier League regulations have gone through a couple of iterations but a core component has been restricting wage increases. However, the same sets of financial statements provided to Uefa would have been provided to the Football Association and the Premier League.
The Premier League has a different form of FFP. Then there is another problem-the Premier League. Roll all this together and you can see why Manchester City is going to fight this one to the death. Uefa acknowledged the decision but offered no further comment given that Manchester City has the right of appeal to the CAS.
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