UEFA have just fined Manchester City £48.86m and capped their UCL squad to only 21 players! According to Sky Sports News, Manchester City have decided to not appeal the financial fair play punishment. The repercussions of the capped squad is that they will only be allowed to register 13 foreign players for their European campaign.Goes to show that Platini and UEFA are taking the FFP very seriously.
The offer sanctions I think they have managed to avoid includes:
- a deduction of points;
- the withdrawal of a title/award;
- the disqualification from competitors in progress and/or the exclusion from future competitions;
- the prohibition on registering new players in UEFA competitions.
It will be fascinating to see Manchester City fully comply with these regulations. Who misses out of European football next season? Kolarov? Garcia? Jovetic? Navas? Nastastic? Demichelis? Lets not forget that they will surely be signing a few foreign players in the summer.
Other clubs who have been punished includes Galatasaray, Zenit Saint Petersburg & Anzhi Makhachkala.
Source: http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11679/9314389/uefa-fine-manchester-city-60m-euros-and-restrict-cl-squad
Financial Fair Play
posted on 16/5/14
Swear this is old news now
posted on 16/5/14
city will need to buy a few english youngsters then unless they have a few in the youth system
posted on 16/5/14
Rip city
Us prudent clubs have nothing to worry about.
posted on 16/5/14
Well we all know FFP wont work, we've been told it on here for so long. City will bring UEFA to court, they'll never been punished. FFP has some many holes in it, it will never be enforced.
Good to see FFP has finally arrived
posted on 16/5/14
comment by It Doesn't Mata What My Name Is (U17527)
posted 12 minutes ago
Milner
Rodwell
Lescott
Hart
Wright
Clichy (does he count for years in England?)
who else?
..".............
Lescott is leaving
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I think also they have Boyata who is counted as home grown. Plus Scott Sinclair who is out on loan.
posted on 16/5/14
Citys forward line next season
Sinclair negredo milner
posted on 16/5/14
comment by It's time!! - Avoiding Europe since 2014 (U6852)
posted 48 seconds ago
Well we all know FFP wont work, we've been told it on here for so long. City will bring UEFA to court, they'll never been punished. FFP has some many holes in it, it will never be enforced.
Good to see FFP has finally arrived
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Good that they've accepted punishment. I can't see how they could have fought it, its a competition so they don't have a legal right to enter.
If I'm right, the clubs that enter the CL do so on the say so of their National FA. UEFA allocate x number of places (e.g. England gets 4 CL places) and the National FA put forward the names of its participants for the following year.
If City had challenged the judgment further, who is to say our own FA or PL would have recommended City not to enter the CL irrespective of if they had qualified for it?
posted on 16/5/14
Who are city's foreign contingent for champions league next season?
Pantilimon
Zabaleta
Demichelis
Kompany
Silva
Navas
Toure
Fernandinho
Garcia
Jovetic
Negredo
Dzeko
Aguero
Haven't put clichy and nasri in case they qualify as home grown..
don't think that squad limitation will hurt them much
posted on 16/5/14
You can only actually field 11 players at a time
posted on 17/5/14
good news, what City have done is not right
gone from a mid table nothing club into a top winning side overnight. None of it was earned they just got lucky and the owners decided to pick them.
if they had bought Norwich city they would be PL winners by now.