The Premier League club’s key players on the pitch may be the likes of Sergio Aguero, Raheem Sterling and Kevin De Bruyne, but off it their line-up of British and Swiss lawyers will also be in focus as they fight to get the ban overturned.Manchester City
UEFA will also issue a 30 million euro fine to City, who it said had “failed to cooperate in the investigation,” possibly contributing to the harshness of its punishment.The FFP regulations are designed to stop clubs running up big losses through spending on players and ensure that sponsorship deals are based on real market value and are genuine commercial deals, not ways for owners to pump cash into a club to get around the rules.
“We will not be providing any comment on out of context materials purported to have been hacked or stolen from City Football Group and Manchester City personnel and associated people. The attempt to damage the Club’s reputation is organised and clear,” it said. The club’s legal team argued that what it viewed as leaks from UEFA to the media about the investigation showed “UEFA has systematically breached, and continues to breach, its duty of confidence” in the case.Although CAS rejected that appeal saying “internal remedies” had not been exhausted, it did express concern in its written judgment about the leaks.