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Manchester City likely to face Champions League ban: reports

InternationalManchester City likely to face Champions League ban: reports
Manchester City lifting Premier League title. Pic Man City Twitter

If reports are to be believed the newly crowned English Premier League champions and unstoppable looking Manchester City are likely to be banned for one year from Champions League participation.

A report in New York Times said that European football’s financial regulators are set to recommend that Manchester City be barred from the Champions League.

UEFA and the Premier League had launched an investigation this year after allegations made in German magazine Der Spiegel that the club broke Financial Fair Play rules.

Members of the investigatory chamber of UEFA’s financial control board, set up to analyze the accounts of clubs suspected of breaking cost-control regulations, met two weeks ago in Switzerland to finalize their conclusions, the newspaper said.

“The investigatory panel’s leader, the former prime minister of Belgium Yves Leterme, will have the final say on the submission to a separate adjudicatory chamber, which could be filed as soon as this week. The body is expected to seek at least a one-season ban,” the Times said.

It was unclear if such a ban, if levied, would be enforced next season or in the 2020-21 campaign, the Times said, noting that with qualifying for Europe’s most prestigious and lucrative club championship set to start in June there is little time to finalize a sanction.

Manchester City would also have the right to appeal such a ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Manchester City vigorously denied any financial irregularities, saying in March they welcomed UEFA’s investigation as an opportunity to clear their name.

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