2024-09-21 03:01:00
England’s Manchester City is at risk of being disqualified from the Premier League, the UEFA Champions League and the FIFA Club World Cup for financial violations.
The positive side of Manchester has seen exponential growth, due to the purchase of the club by the Abu Dhabi United Group for Development and Investment, an investment group from the United Arab Emirates, in September 2008. Since then, Manchester City have won 20 local titles and three international ones, marking a before and after in the history of the institution with elite players.
However, this success of the Emiratis in England had its negative side, since on Monday, September 16, the lawsuit against the club for 115 financial violations between 2009 and 2018. Of these hundred charges, five are for breaching UEFA’s Financial Fair Play rules.
The conviction could be a fatal sentence for Manchester City, because, according to the FA Cup regulations, “where a club has been admitted to participate in the competition but is subsequently eliminated from the league in which it competes, The Professional Gaming Council (PGB) may remove the club from the competition and the EFL Cup, which makes it clear that participants must be members of either the league or the Premier League.”
As for international competitions, “citizens” could be disqualified due to two issues: the long interval between each match being excluded from all competition at the domestic level, since it is the Football Association and the English Premier League that have functions in the administration of theUEFA licenses British clubs.
Also, in the English league, the Spanish team Joseph Guardiola could suffer a historic loss of points, although there was also talk of the possibility of a sanction financial penalties or even expulsion from the competition, and withdrawal of titles obtained during the era involved.