Football's richest and most watched league has challenged its defending champion with more than 100 charges. 😲 9WWOS
Man City seems more at risk from the English case, which does not involve a statute of limitations on evidence that was a problem for UEFA lawyers.
FFP was established in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, which deepened worries in European football that clubs could go out of business if the cost of player transfers and wages kept rising. At the same time, historically underachieving Manchester City was bought in September 2008 with sovereign wealth from the United Arab Emirates.When UEFA in 2011 began monitoring finances of clubs who qualified for European competition, City had made progress by spending big on players.
"If clubs use unrealistic deals as a way to get around Financial Fair Play," Arsene Wenger had warned in 2012 when coach at Arsenal, "it will make a mockery of the rules."In November 2018, Man City was the Premier League champion with three titles in the first decade of its Abu Dhabi era, and a talented squad coached by Pep Guardiola.then published the "Football Leaks" series of articles based on the club's internal documents and communications.
Three CAS judges overturned the ban in July 2020, ruling that some UEFA charged were not proven and other evidence was excluded as time barred.
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