Fans of football or even Manchester City, you guys must have heard of sad yet bizarre accusations made against the football team. It is claimed that Manchester City has been banned from playing in any European Club Competition for the next 2 years. Not only that, but they are also asked to pay a fine of 30 million euros! What a big number.
Due to all the commotion, Manchester city took their case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and are hoping for a different outcome.
“We’re not surprised but we have to admit we are disappointed,” Manchester briefly states.
There have been rumors claiming contradicting stories leaving you guys quite confused. Well here’s the whole facts behind this puzzling case.
The CFCB, Independent Adjudicatory Chamber of the Club Financial Control Body is accusing Manchester City of illegally breaking the rules by misusing its sponsorship revenue in their accounts. Manchester has also failed to cooperate in the entire investigation. What’s the deal here?
Back in 2018, a number of articles were published claiming that Manchester City has playing a game when it came to UEFA Financial Fair Play (FFP) as well as breaking regulations and other licensing requirements.
The worst allegation that was used against Manchester City was that holding company ADUG, Abu Dhabi United Group that is currently owned by Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed al Nahyan, has been funneling money to Abu Dhabi based sponsors then rerouting the money to Manchester City as Sponsorship! Is this true? Yes Sheikh Mansour is a billionaire brother of the ruler of U.A.E, but do you really think they’d play with the law?
Manchester City was supposed to be playing a match against Real Madrid on the 26th of February at Bernabeu, but the future of Manchester City is at stake.
Javier Tebas, La Liga President Javier, amongst other football teams are praising the UEFA for finally taking action and coming to a decision.
It is safe to assume that Manchester knew that this was coming but didn’t know the severity of their consequences would hit back this hard.
After connecting the dots and knowing more about the inside story, in your opinion, do you believe that a 30 Million fine as well as the team being exempted for the next two years from playing in European Championships is too harsh of a punishment or do you think that they got what they deserve?