Sport : Manchester City banned for two years by UEFA fine £25m
One of the fierce English club, Manchester City has been banned by European football governing body, UEFA, for two years and hit with a £25m fine. ManCity, coached by Pep Guardiola and owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the Abu Dhabi ruling family, were found guilty by UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) of falsely inflating their sponsorship revenues to make it look like the club was making more money than it was spending on player purchase, when submitting financial accounts as part of the Financial Fair Play (FFP) compliance process. The FFP was formed by UEFA to prevent European clubs from spending more money than they make as income. With FFP, European clubs stopped overspending on player wages, restricting the amount owners are able to use of their own cash to cover losses. With this new ban, Man City will now be suspended from any UEFA European ...