Euskaraz irakurri: Zer leporatzen diote Manchester Cityri, eta nolako zigorrak jaso litzake?
The premier league ha accused this monday to Manchester Citycurrently second classified in the competition and current champion, of alleged financial violations committed between 2009 and 2018. The news has “surprised” the English clubas stated in a statement made public shortly after the Premier reported the opening of an investigation, and could lead to sanctions ranging from financial to downgrading.
In this context, Manchester City, which includes, among other players, former Athletic player Aymeric Laporte (since January 2018), and which has Txiki Begiristain as Director of Football and Pep Guardiola as coach, has been sent this Monday for the Premier League to a independent commissionafter the Premier herself has accused him of alleged breaches of the financial rules of the competition. According to the Premier League, the alleged breaches of the financial rules of the competition would have been carried out from the 2009-10 season, until 2017-18; Specifically, the City would have avoided providing “in good faith” the information from the accounts with a “true and fair” view. It should be noted that in the 2011-12, 2013-14 and 2017-18 seasons, Manchester City was proclaimed league champion.
The Premier refers to the documents that prove the club’s source of income in that period, including those received from sponsorships, with the “related parties” and the costs of each of the agreements and operations.
The competition, in its writing, has divided the alleged infractions into five groups. After sponsorships, the second set of breaches would affect the salary of the club’s coach between 2009 and 2013, the Italian Roberto Mancini, since, according to the Premier, City did not include all the “details” of the coach’s remuneration. He also talks about changes in the salaries of soccer players between 2010 and 2016.
The third group of the statement addresses the alleged breach of UEFA’s financial “Fair Play” between 2013 and 2018. In 2020, the governing body of European football already expelled City from its competitions for not following these economic control rules, but the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAD) annulled the sanction in July of that same year.
City, according to what was reported by the Premier, did not follow the competition regulations in terms of “profitability and sustainability” between 2015 and 2018, and, finally, the fifth group of alleged infringements in the statement addresses the rules that require clubs to “cooperate and help the Premier League in its investigations”, something that they would not have followed from 2018 to the present.
The Premier League has confirmed in its note that the Commission that will deal with these alleged breaches will be “confidential”, with testimonies “in private”: “The Premier will not make any further comments regarding this matter until further notice,” the Premier League statement concludes. competition.
The club expresses its “surprise”
After learning of these accusations, Manchester City said they were “surprised” by the accusations, saying that he hopes the investigation will end this matter “once and for all.”
“Manchester City is shocked by the allegation of this breach of Premier League rules, especially the help and vast amount of materials we have given to the Premier League,” City said in a statement. welcomes the investigation by the Independent Commission, “so that it consider impartially the irrefutable evidence that exists”.
Possible sanctions
Thus, the accusations of the Premier lead the club to different sanctions, ranging from economic to loss of category. The Commission has the power to apply sanctions such as relegation, or the loss of points this season, since it is unlikely that the results of other seasons will be affected by this case, and City can also receive economic fines, as it has already been It happened in 2020, when UEFA sanctioned him with 30 million euros, which were reduced to 10 after the appeal before the TAD. They can also prevent City from signing up new players.
The resolution, yes, is far from being elucidated, and it can take months of deliberation, without forgetting that, if necessary, there could be an appeal before other bodies, such as the aforementioned Court of Arbitration for Sport.
In English football, the most recent sanctions correspond to Reading, which lost six points last season for breaking the financial rules of the English Football League (a competition that includes the second, third and fourth categories of England), and Derby County, which went down to League One (equivalent to the First RFEF in the Spanish State) after losing 21 points for going bankrupt and for breaking the rules of financial “Fair Play”. Both cases belong to the 2021-22 season.
A year earlier, in 2020-21, Sheffield Wednesday lost six points for breaking financial rules. In the 2019-20 season, Wigan Athletic went bankrupt and lost 12 points, while in the same campaign Macclesfield Town and Bolton Wanderers lost 17 and 12 due to financial problems.
The most recent case of a team that lost the category was Bury, from League One, which was expelled from the competition for not being able to deal with creditors. The first and last time that a Premier League team received a penalty for the loss of points was Portsmouth, in the 2009-10 season, for going bankrupt.
Source: Eitb
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