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Victory of the rich: This is how the Citizens defeated UEFA | Israel Today

2020-07-15T14:25:47.058Z


The Citizens' appeal to the CAS was accepted and Pep Guardiola's team defeated the UEFA and the financial fair play rules | World Football


Manchester City's appeal to the CAS was accepted and Pep Guardiola's team defeated UEFA and the financial fair play rules

  • Guardiola and City players. Will pounce on next season

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Her biggest win of the season (so far) was achieved last night (Monday) by Manchester City off the football field. The High Court of Arbitration for Sport, the CAS, accepted the team's appeal against UEFA's decision to suspend it for two years in the Champions League due to a breach of the financial fair play rules, when it was also decided to offset the fine imposed by a third and reduce it from 30 million euros to 10 million euros. only. 

While this decision will not affect City's current season, which awaits the Champions League quarter-final rematch against Real Madrid (1: 2 in the first game), its implications are many and touch on the club's future. First of all - City, who secured second place in the Premier League, will play next season in the most important factory in European football. In doing so, she can say goodbye to the troubling thoughts about the consequences that a two-year suspension would bring. 

An inevitable sale of the team's stars including Kevin de Bruyne, a farewell to Pep Guardiola whose contract expires at the end of next season, budget cuts - all of these things are unlikely to happen. Moreover, this decision will allow the runner-up to pounce on the transfer window in order to build a team that will return the Premier League championship they lost this season to Liverpool. 

At the expense of romance

Always where there is a winner there should be a loser, in which case UEFA came out defeated. Last February, following an investigation following reports in the Der Spiegel newspaper, the European Football Association issued an unusual announcement announcing a two-year suspension from Manchester City from the European factories. Hiding information and making false reports about sponsorship profits in 2016-2012. UEFA explained that City cheated and lied in order to comply with the financial fair play rules and also added that "the group did not cooperate with the investigations". 

Citi, which announced from the outset that it intended to appeal the decision, explained that the whole proceeding was flawed and prejudiced. She claimed to have fallen victim to people who wanted to tarnish her reputation and that all reports and documents had been taken out of context. For months, the group's lawyers worked on the appeal, and the feeling within the club was that justice had been served. 

Just last Friday Guardiola said: "I have full confidence in what the team have done." The fact that City were able to overturn the punishment they received should come as no surprise to anyone. The strong and rich teams may do damage to the purity of the game and the romance in it, but they are still strong and rich and able to exempt themselves from punishment. 

What should come as a surprise, and worrying, is the helplessness of the UEFA and the financial fair play laws. Manchester City have disrupted the investigation and broken the rules, it is clear, and yet came out with a total fine of 10 million euros - peanuts on its scale. This case, like previous cases, casts doubt on the ability of the fair play financial rules to monitor the finances of big clubs and put things in order. In its decision, the CAS wrote that the UEFA did not provide "sufficient conclusive evidence" to support its conclusions. In other words: even on her home field, the one where she set the rules, UEFA failed to face City. And that's a big problem. 

Source: israelhayom

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