Manchester City face their biggest fixture yet – fighting the Premier League’s financial rules

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Manchester City faces its biggest fixture yet – fighting the Premier League’s financial rules

Bankrolled by its Gulf ownership’s ambition and seemingly limitless wealth, City began signing star players and collecting trophies one, two, three at a time. In doing so, it not only toppled its neighbour and rival, Manchester United, it also left the rest of the Premier League trailing in its wake too.

Pep Guardiola with Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak at the Presidential Affairs Office in Abu Dhabi in 2018. Photograph: Victoria Haydn/Manchester City FC via Getty Many of those same fans have long cheered City’s pugnacious stance in the face of accusations and its reliance on an army of lawyers to defend the club’s interests.

Among the charges the club faces are several suggesting it has obstructed the investigation, accusations mirrored by those alleged in the UEFA case Within months, the deep pockets of the Abu Dhabi United Group, the investment vehicle for the new ownership, and a new class of wealthy owners were already driving up prices for players across Europe. And soccer’s old guard began pushing back.

The deals helped finance the team’s sudden rise – City won the Premier League title on the final day of the 2012 season, and then added another two years later – but they did not cover all of the team’s spending, and that caught the eye of soccer’s financial regulators. In 2014, Manchester City and the Qatar-owned Paris St-Germain, agreed to a settlement with Uefa after being found to have been in breach of the governing body’s financial regulations.

Uefa took notice of the articles and, in late 2018, it said it had opened an investigation into City’s finances. The Premier League, with much less fanfare, did the same.

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