{"id":908899,"date":"2026-09-28T19:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/908899\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T19:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T19:20:09","slug":"man-city-charges-ceo-ferran-soriano-issues-defiant-message-to-european-club-bosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/908899\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City charges: CEO Ferran Soriano issues ‘defiant’ message to European club bosses"},"content":{"rendered":"

Manchester City<\/a> chief executive Ferran Soriano has issued a “defiant” message to the executives of other teams about the club being found guilty of a majority of Premier League charges, BBC Sport has been told.<\/p>\n

He was speaking at a board meeting of European Football Clubs (formerly the ECA) in Copenhagen before its general assembly on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Soriano was said to have vowed to fight the charges and the process had a long way to run, reiterating what the club’s chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak said in a letter to fans <\/a>on Saturday.<\/p>\n

City were accused of a wide range of rule breaches, centering around claims they inflated sponsorship revenue from connected companies and made other “off the books” payments to circumvent financial regulations.<\/p>\n

On Friday, it was announced they had been found guilty of the vast majority of the 115 charges brought against them.<\/p>\n

Premier League clubs are seeking legal advice about compensation relating to the charges, while BBC Sport has been told City will appeal.<\/p>\n

Sanctions are yet to be announced, but repercussions could include a points deduction, expulsion from the top flight or a huge fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manchester City chief executive Ferran Soriano has issued a “defiant” message to the executives of other teams about…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":908900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-908899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/908900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}