Explained: Did Manchester City break Premier League rules? - BBC News

Manchester City are Premier League champions, but questions remain about how the club does business.

People don't know if this team, this whole project is based on some wrongdoing in the past, because City stand accused of over 100 breaches of the Premier League's financial rules.

The BBC's Ros Atkins explains.

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[titteryenot]

Of course, it’s never been an even playing field financially, but the disparities between the richest and poorest teams are starker than ever, and if you look at the stats for who comes where in the Premier League, it’s consistently the wealthiest who fill the top spots, with teams like Leicester being very rare anomalies. Money’s rules and money rules.

[amenhotepthethird]

FFP is clearly designed to prevent smaller clubs from challenging those with longer histories. Based on revenue and past performance is a major handicap for smaller clubs. Look at how much Chelsea have spent in under 1 year, around half of City's total spend.

[MoonThuli]

This happens year after year, the punishments need to be more severe

[Taytates-lrkg]

We all know big money ruined football in the UK..

[tehgamist]

Their sponsor is their owner. That is already a clear conflict of interest. Pointless.

[tsumbedzonengwani]

This is so unfair because these rules basically means big teams should remain big while small team should remain small. If they want to be fair they should say all clubs should spend the same amount of money not wat the club is worth coz all clubs ain't equal. Psg have all the stars and expensive players. Real Madrid use to do that.

[Liberty-rnwy]

I am an American and have followed Liverpool since 2018. I honestly can't seriously take the Premier League fully seriously after this.

[zanykangaroo]

This video is sponsored by Liverpool F.C. 😂

[FatRonaldo]

There’s no point of FFP if it only issues fines. Points deductions and being banned from Europe are the only punishments that will work

[mw]

The problem is that Manchester United and Arsenal have spent even much money than City, and yet no one talks about them. I am not siding City, but we have to mention other teams as well.

[najeebkhan]

So City has been cleared once by a court but then fresh charges were brought against them by uefa. If they are cleared again, can city sue uefa for damages for tarnishing their reputation?

[steveblease]

But it's okay to be From Trafford and have a £500, 000, 000 debt? WTAFF is that about?

[LordoftheFrogs]

And this is why a transfer market budget cap should be implemented

[alexalexalex]

Yes. The ffp is definitely nothing supported by the “big” clubs in order to never have equal competition. No no

[EraserTraceur]

Makes Leiscters championship run even better.

[bluecheese]

Good God 🤦🏻‍♂️That was 5 years ago !
Any chance of having some more up to date information about the current situation and the past 5 years finances ?

[juliusoba]

UEFA accused City of cheating. But when asked to provide evidence, they had nothing. CAS dismissed the charges.
Today, the PL took four years to accuse City of cheating. Will be interesting to see how they come up with the evidence. Also, why didn’t they provide the evidence to UEFA so that City could be punished?
Saying City is cheating and proving it are completely different.

[joesus]

the timing of this piece is incredible - honestly what has the BBC become?

[nigelduckworth]

The Premier League charges are simply a reiteration of the matters between 2013 and 2018 on which City were exonerated by CAS and on which, between the inception of FFP and 2014 they were fined by UEFA. Many of the charges are small beer in terms of overspending such as overpaying Mancini and Toure, both of these having denied that this had happened. I am not impressed at all with the so-called academic expert, whose views may have been truncated. The legal loopholes were not evident in CAS exoneration of City on those charges which were in time and not time barred.

[MaestroPlaymaker]

Why are you only reporting this now? Typical BBC