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[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Manchester City guilty verdict has "significant implications for integrity of the game", FA says https://t.co/wiPJX4KoJx

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

No neutral reading this will have any sympathy with Manchester City fans this week.

They have been the dominant team of the last 15 years, and have won everything in sight.

And yet, for those fans themselves, this is a confusing, painful moment, one where they have to navigate complicated and often competing feelings and impulses.

Even as a non-practising City fan, a lapsed blue, I feel it.

Learning that those wins and titles were seemingly built on cheating is extremely difficult to process. If you roll your eyes at that, just try telling yourself that your own happiest memories, the things that mean most to you in the world, were seemingly built on lies. It is not easy to sit with.

City supporters have a responsibility, as painful as it is, not to change the subject this week. Not to talk about other clubs or situations or scenarios. But to stare directly into the sun.

📝 @JackPittBrooke

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[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

The Independent Football Regulator chair has reiterated their powers to assess the suitability of club owners, as they await further developments on the Manchester City case.

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

"We've never had a case like this. Nobody knows where this is going to go."

Despite being found guilty of almost all charges, Manchester City remain confident of proving their innocence.

@David_Ornstein, @JamesHorncastle and @kvlmason analyse the situation on the latest episode of 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘁𝗵𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗙𝗖 𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁

Watch now: https://t.co/VZsExTm56a

[Sky Sports News @SkySportsNews]

Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of Premier League financial rules by an independent commission, the league has said.

Manchester City have indicated their intention to appeal the decision.

[Telegraph Football @TeleFootball]

Manchester City could be expelled from the Premier League after their near-£1 billion cheating scandal was laid bare.

@ben_rumsby has more 👇
https://t.co/qNxlLpvtY9

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: Premier League says Manchester City used 'sham contracts' to inflate revenues and cut costs by £900m, as club found guilty of all charges related to breaches of financial rules.

https://t.co/bhUbZCXkhj

[Match of the Day @BBCMOTD]

✅ The Premier League has confirmed that Man City have been found guilty of all charges related to breaches of Premier League financial rules.

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

The Premier League has confirmed that Manchester City have been found guilty of all charges related to breaches of Premier League financial rules between 2009-10 and 2017-18.

An independent Commission found that during that time period, the club arranged "sham contracts" with a number of its commercial partners, as well as "relying on sham agreements to artificially inflate the club's revenues and reduce its costs".

The statement also said that City were guilty of the majority of charges in relation to its failure to co-operate, but an exact figure was not given.

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Premier League chief executive Richard Masters:

“The core decision establishes the facts of what happened at Manchester City during this period. It details how the club systematically broke Premier League Rules for nearly a decade.

“It also vindicates the Premier League’s decision to pursue this case against Manchester City. While the process to date has been both long and difficult, the League has remained determined that the facts be established independently.

“This disciplinary case, and this decision, are the most significant in Premier League history.”

https://t.co/ejdfD8SALg

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

"The only winners are lawyers."

@David_Ornstein on Manchester City being found guilty of almost all charges — "a sorry situation for English football"...

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[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

Manchester City's owners artificially inflated the club's commercial revenue by £830 million ($1.1 bn) between 2009 and 2018, the Independent Commission found during the Premier League hearing into the 115 charges for serious financial breaches.

The Abu Dhabi-owned club were found guilty of all 115 charges by the Commission with Premier League CEO Richard Masters saying City "systematically broke Premier League rules for nearly a decade."

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Manchester City have been found guilty of “sham payments” and artificially inflating their revenue by more than £900million in a damning verdict reached by an independent regulatory commission investigating more than 100 charges levied by the Premier League.

Full story from @OliverKay ⬇️

Free to read: https://t.co/GzAGlqI5Xo

[David Ornstein @David_Ornstein]

🚨 Premier League confirms Manchester City ruled guilty of every charge related to financial rule breaches across 9 seasons + majority of charges on #ManCity failure to co-operate with probe. Situation discussed w/ @JamesHorncastle @kvlmason @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/eqQJBGqzSu

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

Across the nine seasons they were accused of not providing accurate information, Manchester City spent £1.943billion on wages, over £100m more than any other English club. In 17 Abu Dhabi-controlled years to the end of 2024-25, their combined wage bill was £4.963bn.

At Manchester United and Chelsea, the next-highest combined bills in England, the figure is around £600m lower. It is a staggering difference.

Since 2009-10 (the first season the charges relate to), the Premier League has dished out more than £6bn in merit payments to 42 different clubs. City received £559.6m (9%).

They have played in the Champions League every year from 2011-12 onwards, achieving qualification in eight of the nine years the charges spanned.

Such qualification naturally means others missed out. On that particular measure, Tottenham Hotspur were worst hit, landing one spot outside of the Champions League on four occasions during that spell. Their Europa League earnings from those occasions totalled a combined £28.8million; City made £141m from the Champions League in the same seasons.

It is not just those fighting for titles or European spots who may feel they’ve missed out. What of the beaten cup finalists? What of the clubs who might have avoided relegation if City’s results were scrubbed out?

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