🚨 Chief Executive of the Premier League, 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.
“It is a key responsibility of the Premier League to ensure that the Rules, approved by the clubs themselves, are upheld to protect the integrity of the competition. It is paramount that the League remains competitive and fair for all clubs and for the fans. We take that role extremely seriously.
“This disciplinary case, and this decision, are the most significant in Premier League history. There are elements of the case that remain to be decided, including, importantly, what sanction must follow for these breaches. Now we have the Commission’s decision, we are committed to moving swiftly through the remainder of the process, to provide certainty for the League, our clubs and fans.”
🔴⚪ Rui Pinto had no army behind him. No lawyers, no backing, nothing but a laptop in a small flat in Budapest and a belief that something was seriously wrong with the game we love.
So he went looking, and what he found was bigger than anyone expected. 70 million documents, pulled straight from the emails and contracts of the biggest clubs and agents in Europe. And sitting right at the center of that pile was Manchester City.
In 2013. City's own CFO asks a director if it's fine to alter contracts to get around UEFA's financial rules. The reply comes back, ten words, cold as ice: "Of course we can. We can do what we want." That's not a rumor. That's their own words, in their own inbox.
Pinto put it all out through Football Leaks, and once it started, it didn't stop. Hidden deals from clubs all over Europe.
Even the Super League plans, exposed before the world was ready for them.
So City and their billionaire friends did what power always does. They hired a private investigator and hunted down the guy who exposed them.
They caught him in 2019, and from there it was six years of witness protection, ninety charges, and trial after trial designed to bury him quietly.
It didn't work. April 2026, a Portuguese court acquitted him. The man they spent years trying to silence walked out free, and that shouldn't come as a coincidence that this Man city verdict is coming same period!
COYG. 🔴⚪
BREAKING: After Man City were found guilty of FFP charges, the Premier League lawyers have been celebrating with an open top bus tour...
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@JamesBenge reacts to breaking reports that Manchester City is set to be found guilty on 114 of the 115 charges relating to alleged breaches of financial rules and discusses possible ramifications for the club.