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Man City charges: Do Premier League club have grounds for their appeal?
16 October 2026 Off

Man City charges: Do Premier League club have grounds for their appeal?

By Total Football News

A key part of City’s defence will be that the Independent Commission relied too heavily on the emails obtained through the Football Leaks files.

“If City can demonstrate the Commission fundamentally misunderstood the emails, failed to consider their proper context or reached conclusions inconsistent with other contemporaneous documents, that could amount to a material factual error,” Severn added.

“City’s difficulty is that the Commission heard extensive witness and documentary evidence

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Man City charges: Football regulator will quit if independence compromised
14 October 2026 Off

Man City charges: Football regulator will quit if independence compromised

By Total Football News

The independent panel will hold a sanctions hearing – which could take months to convene – to decide on City’s punishment.

The club can appeal both the guilty verdicts and the sanction, leaving the league in a state of uncertainty.

City’s punishment could range from a huge fine, being deducted points or being ejected from the Premier League.

Asked how crucial it is that it was resolved as soon as

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Manchester City charges: Were any of club’s current players signed during charges period?
13 October 2026 Off

Manchester City charges: Were any of club’s current players signed during charges period?

By Total Football News

No member of Manchester City’s current squad was signed during the period in which an independent commission found the club guilty of all charges relating to breaches of the Premier League’s financial regulations.

Those offences all came between 2009 and 2018. City have denied any wrongdoing and appealed against all of the charges against them.

The club’s longest-serving first-team player who was purchased from another club is Portuguese centre-back and

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Manchester City charges: How much did their rule breaking cost your team?
13 October 2026 Off

Manchester City charges: How much did their rule breaking cost your team?

By Total Football News

While parachute payments provide something of a cushion, relegation from the Premier League is still a considerable financial hit.

Could the teams who finished in 18th place, one spot from safety, argue that they might have stayed up but for City?

There are a couple of ways of looking at this.

Firstly, the results against City who took at least four points off every 18th-placed team other than Birmingham.

Secondly,

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Mikel Arteta: Arsenal boss has clear conscience over Man City charges
9 October 2026 Off

Mikel Arteta: Arsenal boss has clear conscience over Man City charges

By Total Football News

Mikel Arteta says his conscience is clear over Manchester City’s Premier League rule breaches during a period when he was assistant manager at the club.

The Arsenal boss worked under Pep Guardiola between 2016 and 2019, which overlapped with the nine seasons during which City have been found to have broken rules and disguised secret funding of more than £830m.

In his first news conference since the ruling – which

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Man City charges: Man Utd boss Michael Carrick ‘personally affected’ by financial case
9 October 2026 Off

Man City charges: Man Utd boss Michael Carrick ‘personally affected’ by financial case

By Total Football News

Manchester United boss Michael Carrick still has his “own questions” over the Manchester City case which he says “affected me personally”.

There is a clamour among some for Manchester City to be stripped of their silverware and also be relegated after they were found guilty of multiple Premier League financial rule breaches.

The 45-year-old was on the pitch at Sunderland when he learned City had won their first Premier

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Manchester City charges: Enzo Maresca says ‘titles absolutely not tainted’
9 October 2026 Off

Manchester City charges: Enzo Maresca says ‘titles absolutely not tainted’

By Total Football News

Manchester City manager Enzo Maresca says the club’s titles are “absolutely not” tainted after they were found guilty of the majority of the 115 charges brought against them by the Premier League.

Maresca reiterated his faith in the club’s owners and belief that they will win their appeal against the verdict during a news conference on Friday dominated by questions on the matter.

The Italian, notably relaxed as he offered

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Manchester City charges: Premier League clubs fear political interference in appeal after Andy Burnham comments
8 October 2026 Off

Manchester City charges: Premier League clubs fear political interference in appeal after Andy Burnham comments

By Total Football News

Burnham’s comments came in an interview with the BBC’s political editor Chris Mason the next day.

When asked about ‘Brand Manchester’ taking a hit, the Prime Minister drew a parallel with a previous Premier League case with Everton, saying he still held the view “firmly” that they “weren’t fairly treated”.

Everton were deducted 10 points, later reduced to six on appeal, by an independent commission for breaching Premier

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Man City charges: Enzo Maresca tells players to be positive as they return to training
8 October 2026 Off

Man City charges: Enzo Maresca tells players to be positive as they return to training

By Total Football News

As Premier League football returns following a three-week hiatus, rival clubs are proving reluctant to let their managers speak about the City verdict publicly.

Managers and head coaches – including Maresca on Friday – will be asked to comment on the matter during compulsory pre-match press conferences.

But it is understood a number of clubs have already taken a clear stance for their managers not to comment.

Some Premier League

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Man City charges: Treasury Committee writes to HMRC to ask about tax implications of Premier League investigation | Football News
1 October 2026 Off

Man City charges: Treasury Committee writes to HMRC to ask about tax implications of Premier League investigation | Football News

By Total Football News

The Treasury Committee has written to the chief executive of HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to ask about the tax implications of the Premier League’s investigation into Manchester City.

HMRC could investigate whether City paid the right amount of tax and national insurance during the nine seasons they have been found guilty of financial rule breaches.

In the letter, Dame Meg Hillier MP asks JP Marks, permanent secretary of HMRC,

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