Pep Guardiola, Manager of Manchester City, announced that the club was expecting to discover the result of its ongoing legal dispute with the Premier League “in one month”.
The reigning top champions were charged in February 2023 due to more than 100 violations of more than 100 violations of the financial regulations of the Premier League. City was accused of artificially inflated artificially sponsorship agreements for the circulation of continental and domestic economic restrictions. The club has always refuted misconduct.
An independent tribunal heard arguments from the city and the Premier League during a trial at the end of 2024. Although no specific date was published for the judgment, it was accepted that a resolution would arrive in the first quarter of 2025.
Guardiola has clarified this vague time scale. “In a month I think there will be a judgment and a judgment,” the city leader told reporters on Friday, February 7th. “Then we will see my opinion about what happened so far.”
The Catalan coach has repeatedly given his public support from the association and aimed at the other teams of the division, who are said to pray for the downfall of the city. In November, Guardiola even signed a two -year extension that did not contain a break clause in the event of a descent – one of several possible punishments if the city was guilty.
“My words won’t convince people,” Guardiola continued. “With this club I know that it’s always ‘the money’.
“But in the past five years we have been the last among the top six for net editions. Even after what we have spent in this transfer window, we are gone from Chelsea. [Manchester] United, Arsenal, Tottenham. Also from Liverpool. The only reason why we sell a lot in the past seasons. “
In the winter window, City spent more than the rest of the division together and brought four players from the first team for a total amount in the region of 180 million GBP. Only Chelsea in 2023 has ever crossed this train in a transfer window in the in -season.
However, Guardiola is largely correct in his claim on City’s recent bookkeeping. Since the summer of 2020, the Sky Blues have recorded a net edition of 322 million GBP. Transfer market. This is smaller than Chelsea (£ 770m), Manchester United (£ 568m), Tottenham (476 million GBP), Arsenal (£ 464 million) and even Newcastle United (£ 351). However, Liverpool has a net expenditure of 250 million GBP.