Manchester City to be made to pay a high price.........

[ian1964 10,372]

.......for spending spree under Uefa Financial Fair Play rules.

 

Title challengers may face heavy fine or transfer embargo for breaking Uefa's Financial Fair Play rules.

 

Manchester City were facing a huge Financial Fair Play sanction on Monday night as Uefa prepared to rule that the spending spree that transformed them into a superpower of the game breached its much-vaunted cost-control regulations.

 

Telegraph Sport has learnt that City, whose billionaire owner, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan, has bankrolled the most successful period in the club’s history, will this week be found guilty of failing to comply with FFP rules – barring an improbable 11th-hour reprieve.

 

Paris St-Germain are also poised to be punished by Uefa’s Club Financial Control Body, which was created to police “greed, reckless spending and financial insanity” in European football and will meet on Tuesday and Wednesday to make its first decisions on which clubs will be prosecuted.

 

City and PSG are understood to be among fewer than 20 teams under threat of a sanction and, unless dramatic new evidence emerges in the next 48 hours to support their claims they have played by the rules, they are on course to be hit hardest of all.

 

The nature and degree of any punishment will be determined in the coming days but it is understood neither team will be faced with expulsion from the Champions League.

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/news/10766475/Manchester-City-to-be-made-to-pay-a-high-price-for-spending-spree-under-Uefa-Financial-Fair-Play-rules.html

[Gribz 743]

A fine isn't going to hit Man City when the cash is easily there to pay it. If FIFA are serious about bringing this in then the cost should be transfer embargos or no Champions league but that then hits FIFA and its sponsors in the pocket so they wont go for it.

 

Getting a shame how football is being ruined by money.

 

The FA cup final - Arsenal and Hull getting 25000 tickets each but 40000 goes to other parties, this is after Arsenal took 49000 to the semi.

[Ser Barristan Selmy 222]

Good, throw the book at them. Don't think their squad is even that strong, Milner wouldn't get a look in otherwise.

[Scott7 5,107]

I would have thought there might be some anxieties about this at the Bridge, no?

[Ser Barristan Selmy 222]

Chelsea have been selling before buying recently and are not one of the clubs being investigated.

[der Berliner 3,218]

FIFA and/or UEFA pissing off their cash cows? PSG, Barca, now ManC and probably some other heavy hitters? They do that at their own peril. There is no doubt that for the sake of sporting integrity, limits should be made and looked at. Still, if the authorities think about a heavy handed approach here, the big guns in Europe may very well decide to whip up their own authorities and competitions, embargos or not. And sooner or later, money will dictate the way ...

 

Bayern et al are sure to complain about these bankrolled clubs ... as long as they do not belong to that ultra-rich ilk themselves. Make no mistake, Sky bankrolls the EPL and has done for years, without that much of a whisper from e.g. Bayern and Dortmund - after Sky joined up with the BL too. Bayern is heavily loaded with sponsorship deals, one major insurance company just bought 9% (or the like) of them for Euro 110m, following up similar deals of fellow sponsors. The rest in Germany looks on in as much dispair as Bayern looks at ManC ... and just imagine how much sympathy they get from the men in red?

[Gribz 743]

the big guns in Europe may very well decide to whip up their own authorities and competitions, embargos or not. And sooner or later, money will dictate the way ...

 

 

That is why FIFA and UEFA wont ban these clubs from the CL, once that happens it will trigger a break away which would start a new European league set up.