Pep Guardiola has claimed Manchester City are already ‘condemned’ and namechecked Tottenham’s Daniel Levy as he accused rivals clubs of driving the charges against the champions
“My first thought is that we are already being condemned,” Guardiola said. “What has happened this week is the same as with Uefa.”
He said a number of Premier League clubs had worked against City then. “Nine teams – Burnley, Wolves, Leicester, Newcastle, Spurs, Arsenal, United, Liverpool, Chelsea – [wrote a letter wanting us] out of the Champions League, that they wanted that. Will it stop now? It’s not because of Uefa but since Abu Dhabi took over, since day one it was like that. Like Julius Caesar, they [the other clubs] are not in this world, not enemies or friends, just interests.
The Cas ruling on the central finding that City’s Abu Dhabi ownership had disguised its own funding as independent sponsorship by the state’s commercial companies was that: “Most of the alleged breaches were either not established or time barred.” It said City failed to cooperate with the investigations by Uefa’s club financial control body and imposed a €10m fine for that.
Guardiola brushed aside how any guilty verdict would taint City’s trophies since Sheikh Mansour became owner in 2008. “[Sergio]
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