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[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?

📝 @CWeatherspoon_

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[The Rebel @TheRebel_IN]

🚨BREAKING : Indian Express launches surgical strike on Dictator MODI🔥🔥

Modi's government is so scared of your posts, it's deleting them faster than you can type 😡

The Indian Express got the data. Between March and July 2026, nearly 1.95 lakh blocking orders went to Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.
That's around 1,275 every single day. One every 68 seconds.

A year earlier, the same Home Ministry portal sent about 6 orders a day. Six.

And when the story came out, the government's own "clarification" made it worse. It said the real number was nearly 2.98 lakh.

One order can cover hundreds of posts and accounts. Meta has plugged its system straight into the Home Ministry's portal, so flagged posts can disappear without any human even reviewing them.

Bro, my cousin posted a video of the broken road outside his house. Next morning it was gone. No reason, no notice. Now he doesn't post anything 😢

That's what they want. Today it's a meme, tomorrow it's your son's complaint about a paper leak.

Modi ji, 56 inch chest, but scared of a 6 inch phone screen? 🔥🔥

[Max Wilkins @MaxWiIkins]

Gabby Agbonlahor has ripped into Manchester City and the damage they did to Aston Villa between 2009 and 2018

City have been found guilty on all but one of the 115 charges relating to breaches of the Premier League’s financial regulations

#avfc went on to be relegated in 2016 and Agbonlahor has levelled part of the blame at #mcfc

"I played in that era, 2009 to 2018. We got relegated in 2016, for six seasons I played in it You know what they did in 2009? They took our best player, Gareth Barry.

"You know what they did in 2010? They took our best player, James Milner. You know what they did in 2014? They took our best player, Fabian Delph.

"As a Villa player in that era. a bunch of cheaters have taken our best players, we've gone to the Etihad and got some spankings from Yaya Toure, Sergio Aguero and David Silva, where did they get the money from to buy these players?"

[talkSPORT @talkSPORT]

😡 "The club should be stripped from the owners!"

😡 "I don't like how they think they can rock into English football and do what they want!"

Simon Jordan launches angry rant against #MCFC's ownership after guilty verdict news! 😤

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

The former Manchester City chairman, David Bernstein, says that his old club need to be punished with more than fines if it is confirmed they were in breach of financial regulations. City’s chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak protested his club’s “innocence” again this weekend following reports that they had been found guilty of the overwhelming majority of the charges. City are expected to appeal.

There has been no indication of potential sanctions yet but these include fines, points deductions, expulsion from the Premier League and transfer bans. “I would first of all say that financial penalties will not be enough,” Bernstein told The Sunday Edition on talkSPORT. "We're talking about a club with limitless pockets – money doesn't mean very much as we saw in the last transfer window. Whether it's (a fine of) £100m, £200m, that would not be sufficient.

"Unfortunately, I say all of these things with great sorrow, I really do as a fan, I think there has to be something that will affect their league status.

"And if it was to be a points deduction, it depends on timing. Because if it was today, with the season just a few games in, and the points deduction had to be something that was terminal as far as their Premier League  status was concerned (ie leading to relegation), I worked out you'd have to have something like 80 points deducted, which would mean the club could not recover this season and would go down.

“But if this happens at the end of the season, because of the appeals and so on, it's a different kettle of fish, and then you may be talking about an automatic relegation – to which division I don't know. I think it does depend partly on the timing.” @talkSPORT

[Javier Tebas Medrano @Tebasjavier]

En septiembre de 2017, en Soccerex, en Manchester, denuncié públicamente algo que llevaba tiempo preocupándome: el llamado dopaje financiero en el fútbol europeo.

Hablé del Manchester City y del PSG. De clubes cuya capacidad económica no procedía únicamente de su actividad ordinaria, sino también del respaldo de enormes recursos externos. De patrocinios cuya valoración considerábamos alejada de la realidad de mercado. Y de las consecuencias que ese modelo podía provocar en todo el ecosistema: inflación de salarios, fichajes y costes que después terminaban soportando también los demás clubes.

Decirlo tuvo consecuencias.

El Manchester City calificó públicamente mis declaraciones de “ill-informed” y “pure fiction” y anunció que estaba estudiando acciones legales contra mí.

No fue agradable. Tampoco fue la primera ni sería la última vez que defender determinadas posiciones me genera amenazas, críticas y muchos disgustos.

Pero tres años después ocurrieron cosas que conviene recordar.

En febrero de 2020, UEFA sancionó al Manchester City con dos temporadas fuera de sus competiciones y una multa de 30 millones de euros después de concluir que se habían producido graves infracciones de las reglas de control financiero, entre ellas cuestiones relacionadas con la presentación de determinados ingresos por patrocinio.

Después llegó el TAS.

En julio de 2020 dejó sin efecto la exclusión europea. Parte de las conductas fueron consideradas prescritas y otras no suficientemente acreditadas con el estándar de prueba exigido. Sí mantuvo que el Manchester City había incumplido su obligación de cooperación con la investigación de UEFA y confirmó una sanción económica, reducida a 10 millones de euros.

Nunca compartí aquella “extraña” resolución.

Para mí supuso un antes y un después en la credibilidad del TAS como órgano arbitral independiente del deporte.

Me pareció una decisión profundamente equivocada, extraordinariamente dañina para la credibilidad del sistema de control económico del fútbol europeo y difícil de conciliar con un principio que considero esencial: las mismas reglas deben aplicarse a todos.

Por eso, cuando recuerdo aquella intervención de 2017 y todo lo que vino después, no lo hago para decir “ya lo advertí”.

Lo hago porque esta historia explica bastante bien una batalla que llevo muchos años librando.

La sostenibilidad económica no es burocracia.

El control financiero no es un capricho.

Y defender que los clubes compitan fundamentalmente con los recursos que son capaces de generar tampoco significa estar contra ningún club concreto.

Es defender un modelo.

Un modelo en el que el éxito deportivo no dependa de quién tenga detrás el respaldo financiero más poderoso, sino de quién gestione mejor, genere más recursos, construya mejores equipos y respete las mismas reglas que los demás.

Defender esta posición me ha costado muchas críticas y no pocos disgustos.

Pero sigo pensando exactamente lo mismo que en Manchester en 2017.

Hay principios que merece la pena defender aunque tengan un coste.

Y este, para mí, es uno de ellos.

Ahora, casi nueve años después de aquellas palabras en Soccerex, una comisión independiente de la Premier League ha considerado probadas, según las informaciones publicadas, 114 de las 115 infracciones financieras imputadas al Manchester City.

Todavía queda camino. Falta conocer la sanción y el procedimiento no ha terminado.

Pero lo ocurrido vuelve a demostrar por qué el control económico, la transparencia y unas reglas iguales para todos son imprescindibles para proteger la integridad y la sostenibilidad del fútbol.

Seguiremos defendiendo esos principios. Como en 2017.

[🚨Indian Gems @IndianGems_]

"If a citizen slaps a politician, they are jailed for months. If a politician slaps a citizen for asking a question, they walk free. This is two laws in India."

— Ravish Kumar Senior Journalist

[nseries73 @NIRMALLYA11]

@saaaanjjjuuu It's already 69,990 on flipkart

[BoiBoi @ToniBoiBoi]

£2M FOR FOUR DAYS IN ABU DHABI?

The 115 charges against Manchester City are a huge story, but one detail really caught my attention.

𝐊𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐞: “Paying them perhaps £2 million a year to be the coach of Manchester City and £2 million a year for doing four days coaching in Abu Dhabi.”

So the allegation is that a manager could be paid £2m a year for his City role, with another £2m for just four days of coaching in Abu Dhabi.

Four days. £2m.

I don’t know what happened in those four days, but that’s one hell of a coaching session.

ft. @KieranMaguire
via @LBC

[nseries73 @NIRMALLYA11]

@saaaanjjjuuu FYI, on flipkart it's price at 69,990 for 128gb with with their own card discounts.

[Ian Herbert @ianherbs]

Guilty of serial dishonesty. In breach of the Premier League ‘owners’ pledge’ they signed up to. Manchester City’s owners should be stripped of the right to own a club in our game. https://t.co/ifJ1F81IR0

[M A V I X @MavixRMCF]

The match that made me hate Barcelona till date

[The Footy Feed @TheFootyFeed]

Chelsea and Man City are just an absolute stain on our game in England

Nobody's rivals
Plastic fans
No History
No tradition
Cheating for success

[Arsenal Out Of Context @ArsNoContext]

Life before cheating…

[Noah Cat @Cartidise]

No, this is not Apple Music. This is a free open-source Android app called BitChord. I LOVE ANDROID.

[Paul Gaskell @pgaskell13]

Life before cheating

[Melissa Reddy @MelissaReddy_]

Manchester City’s reiteration of their “confidence and intent in proving the club’s innocence” given their “comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence” is incredibly at odds with their own behaviour and the intensity in which they blocked the Premier League’s process of investigation at every step since December 2018.

The scale of their obstructing was revealed in a July 2021 British court judgment. City simply refused to supply information and documents requested by the league, which then issued a disciplinary complaint in August 2019. The club challenged the disciplinary process and the commission that was set up.

The league proposed an ad hoc procedure of appointing a new commission, but City objected to that too. The PL were forced to bring legal arbitration against the club, to be decided by a tribunal of three senior lawyers.

City countered the PL had no power to do that, and challenged the impartiality of the tribunal. That was rejected and the club were again ordered to submit all the documentation and info.

City then appealed to the high court to strike the tribunal down. In March 2021, a judge ruled against the club and that her findings should be published.

City unsuccessfully fought against it being made public knowledge; the judgement published in July illustrated just how hard and long they resisted providing information.

With all that confidence, intent and irrefutable evidence, why the YEARS of non-cooperation and active, intensive blocking?

[nseries73 @NIRMALLYA11]

@saaaanjjjuuu Where is iphone 16??

[Match of the Day @BBCMOTD]

Jose Mourinho will be watching developments closely as BBC Sport understands Man City have been found guilty of the majority of the 115 financial breaches levelled against them.