Pep Guardiola shuts down claim from La Liga president over Man City ‘financial deception’

Pep Guardiola has shut down a claim from La Liga president Javier Tebas over Manchester City’s allege financial deception.

Guardiola was left irke during a press เว็บพนันออนไลน์ UFABET สมัครง่าย โปรโมชั่นมากมาย conference on Friday ahead of City’s FA Cup clash against Plymouth when quizze about Tebas’ remarks.

The City manager, aske for his views on Tebas’ comments, refuse to answer. A question from a journalist and simply shoute: ‘Next!’

City were charge by the Premier League for breaking over 100 financial rules in February 2023 but the. English champions have strongly denie any wrongdoing – and following a hearing last year –. A decision is soon expecte from an independent commission, although appeals may follow.

Guardiola was later pushe on why City had become a legal target for other clubs,. Leagues and organisations as he adde: ‘I don’t know. It happene in the past with UEFA, and now in a few weeks it happens in the Premier League, the sentence, right? We’ll wait, and after we’ll talk.’

Speaking at the Financial Times’ Business of Football summit on Thursday,. Tebas reveale that he reporte City to the European Commission in 2023 for allegedly manipulating their balance sheets.

‘City have a lot of companies in their group which lie outside the City Football Group structure, extra companies where they put their expenses,’ Tebas said.

These other companies lose the money but not the club itself. e have reporte them to the European Union (sic). e have the facts and figures.

‘We aske for City to be checke. It’s very important that all clubs are subject to the same transparency rules and governance on both the sporting and financial side.

The City case is one where we believe they have put the losses on the companies that are not officially part of City Football Group.

‘Do you remember the case in the United States? The Enron case. What they did, they got their losses and they put them into different companies. Well, it’s a similar case.’

The ‘Enron case’ was an accounting scandal sparke by American energy company Enron Corporation, where executives were found to have reape millions by using partnerships to generate false profits and hide debt.