Manchester City are waiting for the final hearing. They were charged for breaching the Financial Fair Play rule.
What really happened with Manchester City?
The Manchester based club have been breaching FFP (Financial Fair Play) rules for nine years. In spending rule of Financial Fair Play, each and every club can invest a fixed amount of money. But the citizens keep on investing beyond the fixed amount. They have signed elite players like Erling Haland, Jeremy Doku, Julian Alvarez, Mate Kovacic, and many more. These transfers costed them millions and millions of euros. These events clearly breached the FFP rules.
Details of the legal issue
According to Liverpoolecho Manchester City is not cooperating with the Premier League Governing body. The case is not in a good condition. The hearing will take place in November. In previous season, points were deducted from Everton for breaching Financial Fair Play rules. Several media sources are claiming that Manchester City can get relegated from English Premier League for breaching FFP rules for nine years. Except Manchester City other clubs like Nottingham Forest, Chelsea are also on the verge of getting punishment for breaching PSR rule. If they want to avoid the punishment, they have to raise a certain amount of money from player sales within a stipulated time.
The bigger picture beyond the case
Earlier people used to think that any team in the English Premier League can win the title. In 2015-2016 season, newly promoted Leicester City won the Premier League title. They have proven that small teams can also win this tough league. But now this event is becoming unrealistic because of unending citizen dominance. Although there are several big teams such as Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, West Ham, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspurs, but no one is winning Premier League consecutively. Manchester City has made Premier League a piece of cake for them.
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Big teams like Manchester City buy elite players at any cost. By investing astronomical amount of money, they can build a world-class squad at any time. On the other hand, the teams who are not financially strong, cannot afford such expensive transfers. So, they rely on their own academy talents. This uneven spending is causing a disbalance in English Premier League. The Premier League governing body should look into this matter more deeply. Punishments such as point deduction, relegation will certainly help Premier League to regain its balance in terms of competition and financial stability of every team.
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