Essential Football special - The Premier League's Man City investigation: Explained from all angles
Sky Sports Premier League Podcast
Sky Sports
4.0 • 760 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
An investigation of this size is unprecedented in the league's 30-year history - and could have serious ramifications for the club if the charges are all proven.
But what are City charged with, and why? It's taken more than three years to get to this point - so how long will the investigation last? And what do City, and their Premier League rivals, make of it all?
Ron Walker introduces Sky Sports News chief reporter Kaveh Solhekol, reporter Mark McAdam and football finance expert Kieran Maguire explain the details of one of the biggest bombshell revelations in Premier League history.
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| 0:00.0 | The Sky Sports Football Podcast is brought to you by Bet365. |
| 0:04.3 | Bet365 wants to help you make every moment extraordinary. |
| 0:08.4 | That's why they make it easy to change things up. |
| 0:11.1 | You can take a time out, set up reality checks and set your limits. |
| 0:15.2 | Because when you make the most of the moments without Bet365, |
| 0:18.6 | it means you can enjoy the moments with them. |
| 0:23.6 | When you play, play safe with Bet365. Manchester City have been charged by the Premier League for breaching numerous financial fair play rules. |
| 0:42.3 | What I can tell you at this moment in time is that it's very intricate, very complicated, |
| 0:49.3 | and we are working behind the scenes to try and break that down to reveal exactly what it means. |
| 0:57.7 | Hello and welcome to a special edition of Essential Football. |
| 1:01.8 | Still less than 36 hours since the Premier League's bombshell announcement that Manchester City |
| 1:06.3 | are to be investigated for more than 100 rule breaches, stretching back almost a decade. |
| 1:12.4 | The dust will settle just enough for us to fill you in on exactly what's been going on. |
| 1:17.9 | What does it mean for City? |
| 1:19.4 | What's been happening at the league's HQ? |
| 1:21.4 | And what's going to happen next in one of the most significant investigations in top flight |
| 1:26.1 | history? |
| 1:27.1 | Now this isn't the first time that |
| 1:28.2 | Manchester City have been charged with breaches of financial fair play regulations with a |
| 1:32.2 | previous UEFA investigation landing them a two-year ban from the Champions League in 2020, |
| 1:38.6 | although that was later entirely overturned on appeal by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. |
| 1:43.8 | This time it's the Premier League who are the ones looking into city's finances. |
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