Manchester City banned from Champions League for two seasons

[editor]

Wow. But that's the Premier League and big money for you.

Manchester City have been banned from the Champions League for the next two seasons by Uefa and fined €30m (£25m) after they were found to have seriously misled European football’s governing body and broken financial fair play rules.

The severity of the ban from both of Uefa’s elite club competitions, and the scale of the fine, reflects how seriously Uefa’s FFP compliance bodies consider the club to have breached the rules and code of conduct.

City were found guilty by Uefa’s Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) of having falsely inflated their sponsorship revenues, when they made submissions for the FFP compliance process. The guilty finding follows an investigation sparked by the publication of “leaked” emails and documents by the German magazine Der Spiegel in November 2018.

The “leaked” emails and documents appeared to show that City’s owner, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the Abu Dhabi ruling family, was mostly funding the huge, £67.5m annual sponsorship of the City shirt, stadium and academy by his country’s airline, Etihad. One of the leaked emails suggested that only £8m of that sponsorship in 2015-16 was funded directly by Etihad, and the rest was coming from Mansour’s own company vehicle for the ownership of City, the Abu Dhabi United Group.

Manchester City banned from Champions League for two seasons

Manchester City have been banned from the Champions League for two seasons, from 2020-21, and fined €30m by Uefa

www.theguardian.com

 

[Fez909]

Wow, that's a proper punishment.

 

[planetgeli]

Wow, that's a proper punishment.

If it happens. Subject to appeal.

 

[editor]

If it happens. Subject to appeal.

There'll be some behind the scenes wad-waving for sure.

 

[Fez909]

If it happens. Subject to appeal.

If it happens, I reckon this is the last we'll see of Pep in the Prem.

Win the CL: "Job done, I'm off for a new challenge"
Don't win: He won't stay another 3 years to try again.

I might bet on him being next Barca manager by June

 

[Lord Camomile]

If it happens, I reckon this is the last we'll see of Pep in the Prem.

Win the CL: "Job done, I'm off for a new challenge"
Don't win: He won't stay another 3 years to try again.

That was my first thought too.

Fair play for consequences that City will actually feel, but gotta laugh at the £25m fine.

 

[souljacker]

If it happens, I reckon this is the last we'll see of Pep in the Prem.

He's not had that great a season so I was thinking his job was already in the balance. This could be the end of his time at City. If the ban happens obv. Money doesn't talk in the prem. It screams and shouts and threatens to take it's ball back.

 

[tommers]

Hahaha. Hilarious.

 

[Badgers]

A long time coming that and probably still a lot buried in the paperwork/behind lawyers.

They will appeal of course and it will be overturned partially or possibly fully. It will cause a lot of headaches and other 'big' clubs will be worrying about this.

Are they out of the current competition too? Will they be eligible for Europa?

Pep with no PL or CL trophies unlikely he will stay and no shortage of clubs wanting him. I had the feeling if they went out of this seasons CL he would be off anyway.

Wonder if Sterling is still pleased he left Liverpool

 

[agricola]

Be amazed if the appeal succeeds.

 

[chilango]

It'll get overturned or reduced of course

 

[Fez909]

Money doesn't talk in the prem. It screams and shouts and threatens to take it's ball back.

Why would the Premier League care? The more of their teams the world knows about, the better.

City are already a global brand now. If they get banned, it's time for young Sheffield United to take the spotlight for a while.

 

[Badgers]

Be amazed if the appeal succeeds.

It does seem pretty black and white to me. They will throw the chequebook at their lawyers for all it is worth. The CL is their holy grail.

Hope Stat Man Gaz is okay

 

[Badgers]

How many seasons is the ban?

 

[agricola]

A long time coming that and probably still a lot buried in the paperwork/behind lawyers.

They will appeal of course and it will be overturned partially or possibly fully. It will cause a lot of headaches and other 'big' clubs will be worrying about this.

Are they out of the current competition too? Will they be eligible for Europa?

Pep with no PL or CL trophies unlikely he will stay and no shortage of clubs wanting him. I had the feeling if they went out of this seasons CL he would be off anyway.

Wonder if Sterling is still pleased he left Liverpool

Doubt it - if anything, this has probably happened because of the cosy little world of the 'big' clubs has been so disturbed by money they can't compete with landing on clubs they don't consider as competition.

 

[Badgers]

Should really be a retrospective punishment. I would suggest docking them 2 points from last seasons PL campaign too.

 

[OneStrike]

Hilarious! That will be Pep gone. Fuck 'em, and their (Dennis) law.

 

[tommers]

Wonder if Sterling is still pleased he left Liverpool

Mate. It's been 5 years.

 

[BCBlues]

As it stands, Sheffield Utd are in next seasons Champions League.

Good news all round

 

[Badgers]

Mate. It's been 5 years.

I know

 

[Badgers]

Next Man City manager odds

Mauricio Pochettino: 5/2
Berndan Rodgers: 9/2
Julian Nagelsmann: 7/1
Massimiliano Allegri: 12/1
Giovanni van Bronckhorst: 12/1

 

[stavros]

Was it within UEFA's power to dock them PL points? I suspect not. If it had been, it'd be comparable with what Saracens have been given, for not dissimilar offences.

 

[Badgers]

Man City facing Premier League points penalty after being banned from Champions League

Exclusive: The defending champions have been given the unprecedented sanction of a two-year ban from the Champions League and €30m fine after ‘serious breaches’ of Uefa Financial Fair Play rules

www.independent.co.uk

High-level sources say that will force the Premier League to act due to their own licensing, which pertains to Uefa’s Financial Fair Play regulations.

 

[The39thStep]

The issue here isn’t why City has been banned it’s about why PSG haven’t tbh .

 

[Badgers]

I don't think the PL can do a points deduction for a season already in progress. It would have to be next season

 

[Badgers]

The issue here isn’t why City has been banned it’s about why PSG haven’t tbh .

Better at hiding it?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

I don't think the PL can do a points deduction for a season already in progress. It would have to be next season

Not sure about that. The Football League can and regularly does deduct points mid-season for financial irregularities. This season it's been Macclesfield Town, although tbf that was about not having enough money for players rather than having too much. Is the PL different?

tbh a points deduction this season, unless it's about 50, won't make a whole lot of difference really if they're banned from Europe.

 

[Badgers]

Silver Lake US investment firm paid $500m late last year for 10% of City Football Group - where Man City is the main asset.

More lawyers incoming

 

[editor]

How many seasons is the ban?

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What a twat.

 

[Badgers]

5th place CL qualification then. Same for Europa league?

The minimum quota is for four English clubs to qualify for the UEFA Champions League and three for the UEFA Europa League.

With Citeh gone that is great news for Sheffield United, Wolves and some of the other mid table clubs.