FA weighs response as Manchester City prepare appeal against landmark financial verdict

The Football Association is “carefully considering” the implications of the ruling that found Manchester City guilty of all the substantive financial charges brought by the Premier League.

The independent commission’s decision, published on Tuesday, concluded that nearly £900m had been artificially channelled into Manchester City by their Abu Dhabi owners over a nine-year period. The club is expected to appeal before Friday’s deadline.

The FA said: “The independent commission’s decision has significant implications for the integrity of the game. We are carefully considering the decision and its implications and will take action where appropriate.”

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It added: “As proceedings between the Premier League and Manchester City Football Club remain ongoing, we do not intend to comment further at this stage. We will, however, continue to monitor developments closely.”

According to Daily Mail Sport, Manchester City’s appeal will argue that sponsorship payments described as “sham” funding were part-funded by the government of Abu Dhabi rather than by the club’s owners.

The commission found that the ownership group had topped up commercial agreements by £830.69m through a process that disguised the source of the money. It concluded that this enabled Manchester City to sign players who helped establish the club’s successful era at the Etihad Stadium.

However, people familiar with the case claim Manchester City will argue that the payments came from the Abu Dhabi government, which owns the sponsoring companies, rather than Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG), the private company owned by Sheikh Mansour. On that basis, the club’s position is that no rules were breached.

Government-backed sponsorships, particularly involving airlines, are common across the Premier League and are not prohibited. Manchester City are expected to present what they describe as “irrefutable evidence”, including bank statements and witness accounts, to a new appeal panel.

If the appeal is unsuccessful, Manchester City could be expelled from the Premier League and ordered to give back titles.

The Premier League said Manchester City had been “significantly in breach of both the Premier League’s and UEFA’s spending limits” between 2009 and 2018, a period in which the club won eight major trophies. It added that accurate reporting would have shown breaches “by a very substantial amount”.

The commission also found multiple failures in Manchester City’s duties to co-operate and act in good faith during the Premier League’s four-year investigation. That inquiry began after club emails obtained by a hacker emerged, and the panel said the club had made “concerted efforts to stop and frustrate the PL investigation”.

Premier League chief executive Richard Masters said the ruling established how Manchester City had “systematically broke Premier League Rules for nearly a decade”. He said the case was the most significant in Premier League history, although the punishment remains to be decided.

Masters added that the league was committed to moving “swiftly through the remainder of the process” to provide certainty for clubs, supporters and the competition.