Manchester City wordt beschuldigd van financiële oneerlijkheid en de club is schuldig bevonden aan bijna alle meer dan 100 aanklachten. De club werd in 2008 overgenomen door Abu Dhabi-royalty en heeft sindsdien vijf Premier League-titels gewonnen en de Champions League behaald.
Club’s ruthless approach was always at odds with their public image and this inglorious story has further to runThere is no episode in English football’s history that even resembles a precedent for the epic Manchester City disciplinary drama, which encapsulates the modern game at breaking point. Here was a grand, stoic old club, taken over in 2008 by Abu Dhabi royalty and mega-funded to imperious success, then crowned serial champions by a league simultaneously pursuing charges of monstrous financial cheating.On Friday sources confirmed that saga, in which Pep Guardiola’s expensively constructed City teams won five Premier League titles and the Champions League during the years since the investigation began in December 2018, culminated in guilty findings on almost all of more than 100 charges. Continue reading...