As pointed out already, they are innocent until proven guilty.
What I want to know is why, in 2023, are they going back to 2009? Have they not checked them out since then or are they incompetent?
It’s not only City who should be getting chased. There are a number of clubs around Europe who need reviewing.
Because in situations like this a club like City will have hired the finest legal minds to represent them and therefore these things take a lot of time.
It’s no surprise to me at all that City have been up to this, look at why their ownership is there. The current Man City has nothing to do with the Manchester City of the Maine Road days, it’s just a host body for the ownership.
And whilst I get Ironfromafar’s views, these things have an impact on clubs at our levels too, whether it’s clubs over-reaching to try to keep up with the Jones, B teams in the Football League trophy, or elite academies hoovering up all the best talent and depriving the lower league clubs of one of their main sources of revenue.
I hope that they throw the book at City but most of all I hope that they rip up the rulebook on club ownership so we cannot have countries owning football clubs.
