City CEO Ferran Soriano claims Uefa’s charges against the club are ‘simply not true’.
Uefa’s case against City was reopened when German magazine Der Spiegel published a series of leaked emails in 2018 that seemed to show how City had manufactured extra sponsorship revenue from a series of companies with connections to the club’s Abu Dhabi-based owner Sheikh Mansour. City face losing hundreds of millions of pounds in prize money, TV revenue, gate receipts and sponsorship income should their appeal against the ban fail.Blockbuster“We are looking for an early resolution obviously through a thorough process and a fair process,” he added.
Soriano and director of football Txiki Begiristain’s previous experience of working with Guardiola at Barcelona was a big factor in City being able to lure the Catalan coach to Manchester.