Manchester City Football Club, a top-level English soccer team, faces more than 100 charges from the Premier League on the eve of Saturday’s Champions League final. Allegations include murky payments to a former coach, false financial reporting and obstructing the league’s investigation.
What is Manchester City accused of?
The league has brought 113 separate charges against the club addressing three main questions, according to Kieran Maguire, an expert in football finance at Liverpool University. First, that it made disguised payments to its coach in 2009-13, when current Italy coach Roberto Mancini was in charge.
The club is alleged ...
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