The facts
Manchester City chief executive Ferran Soriano addressed executives of other clubs at a European Football Clubs board meeting in Copenhagen, saying the club will contest the Premier League charges. The Premier League investigation began in 2018 and on Friday the club was found guilty of the majority of 115 charges, including alleged inflation of sponsorship revenue from related companies and off‑the‑books payments to bypass financial rules. Chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak has expressed confidence in the club’s innocence. The Premier League has not commented, citing confidentiality, while City has indicated it will appeal. Potential sanctions could include points deductions, expulsion from the top flight or a substantial fine.
Our take
Ferran Soriano stood in Copenhagen and told other club bosses that Manchester City would keep fighting the Premier League after being found guilty on most of the 115 charges. The investigation that started in 2018 is now being spun as some endless legal war instead of a reckoning for years of creative accounting on sponsorship revenue from related companies and off-the-books payments.
Soriano’s message to the room was clear: stall, appeal, and hope the guilty findings get buried under legal noise. Rival clubs are already eyeing compensation claims for the distorted competition this shit created. The club’s leadership treats the Premier League like an annoying neighbour complaining about a smell, not the body they allegedly buried in the garden.
Chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak has expressed confidence in the club’s innocence, which lands like a fart in an elevator given the bulk guilty verdict. Their public posture is pure vanity, convinced everyone should admire their nerve while the evidence sits in black and white. Potential punishments like points deductions, expulsion from the top flight or a massive fine are met with a promise to appeal before any sanction is even named.
It’s the football equivalent of getting caught with your hand in the till and immediately demanding a recount while calling the auditors cunts. The Premier League stays silent under confidentiality rules, but City keeps leaking defiance through Soriano. The result is a club that looks both crooked and comically entitled, convinced endless legal noise will eventually make the guilty findings disappear like a bad dream.
It will not, you absolute pricks.
