Play Now continue to respect all commenters and create constructive debates. Former Brazil striker Ronaldo says the 'rules are there to be respected' when asked about City were banned from Europe and handed a fine by UEFA for 'serious breaches' of Financial Fair Play regulations. There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts A fine of approximately £9m for lack of cooperation, however, was upheld, having been reduced from €30m.This instantly triggered a deluge of opinions and reactions, but in truth we learned very little from the initial press release. Ourexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. Uefa alleged that the only plausible explanation was that the larger payment came from City’s ownership group. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer.
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Start your Independent Premium subscription today.Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate?Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. As the charges with respect to any dishonest concealment of equity funding were clearly more significant violations than obstructing the CFCB's investigations, it was not appropriate to impose a ban on participating in UEFA's club competitions for MCFC's failure to cooperate with the CFCB's investigations alone.However, considering i) the financial resources of MCFC; ii) the importance of the cooperation of clubs in investigations conducted by the CFCB, because of its limited investigative means; and iii) MCFC's disregard of such principle and its obstruction of the investigations, the CAS Panel found that a significant fine should be imposed on MCFC and considered it appropriate to reduce UEFA's initial fine by 2/3, i.e. Etihad’s sponsorship of Manchester City was examined by Uefa and Cas. The initial release revealed the conclusions of the court, but no more: Manchester City could not be banned from the Champions League, as most of the alleged breaches of Financial Fair Play regulations were “either not established or time-barred”.In simple terms, this meant that the majority of the charges against City could either not be satisfactorily proven or else occurred outside of Uefa’s own five-year window for bringing prosecutions.
Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post The club's 30 million-euro fine from UEFA was also reduced to 10 million euro.UEFA originally banned the Premier League club from European competitions for two years and issued the fine on Feb. 14 for alleged Financial Fair Play violations. Point 272 offers a useful summary: “…it boils down to the burden of proof. Manchester City will learn the result of their appeal against UEFA's Champions League ban next month. Cas clarified that this element of the initial sanction was partially maintained in recognition of the importance of members cooperating with Uefa, due to its limited investigatory powers.The meat of the judgment was the rejection of the European ban Uefa had tried to impose. Man City win appeal against UEFA Champions League ban.
Cas held that there was no evidence to contradict the alternative account put forward, namely that the larger payment was made from Etihad central funds with the £8m coming from the marketing budget. It will be a fantastic game.”Ronaldo has been discussing Pep Guardiola's future.When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Ourexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. try again, the name must be uniquePlease at There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts
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