{"id":921988,"date":"2026-10-09T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921988\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T15:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:36:09","slug":"man-city-charges-how-premier-league-reacted-united-arsenal-liverpool-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/921988\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City charges: How Premier League reacted \u2013 United, Arsenal, Liverpool | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">After Manchester City were found guilty of Premier League breaches, rival managers give their reaction as games resume.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 9 Oct 20269 Oct 2026<\/p>\n<p>The Premier League returns to action this weekend following the international football break, and since a ball was last kicked domestically in the English top flight, a seismic shock was sent around the world by the guilty verdict faced by Manchester City.<\/p>\n<p>An independent commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/sports\/2026\/9\/30\/what-will-happen-to-man-city-after-the-premier-leagues-guilty-verdict\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found the team guilty<\/a> of more than 100 breaches of the Premier League\u2019s financial rules between 2009 and 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 4 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>City have continued to protest their innocence and have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/sports\/2026\/10\/2\/manchester-city-appeal-premier-league-financial-ruling-england-fa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lodged an appeal<\/a>, but if the decision is upheld, then points deductions, fines, transfer embargoes and relegation are all possible punishments for the club.<\/p>\n<p>City manager Enzo Maresca has said he believes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/sports\/2026\/10\/9\/manchester-city-charges-maresca-says-premier-league-club-will-win-appeal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the appeal will be won<\/a>, and none of the trophies claimed since the period the charges began are tainted.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera Sport has collated the reaction of some of the managers, who were all speaking publicly for the first time since the verdict, starting with the club City face next when they travel to Liverpool on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool manager \u2013 Andoni Iraola<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think uncertainty is not good for anyone, and anyone involved, but the process \u200cis \u200congoing, and we have to be patient like everyone else and see what happens at the end,\u201d Iraola said.<\/p>\n<p>Manchester United manager \u2013 Michael Carrick<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got my own questions about it; it\u2019s affected me personally in different ways over a period of time,\u201d said the former United midfielder, who finished second to City as both a player and assistant manager since the 2008 Abu Dhabi takeover.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I will say, the sooner it gets sorted for everyone\u2019s benefit is essential.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s so many angles to look at, from so many different perspectives, but really speed is essential for everyone to be clear, to be able to deal with it, to be able to move on whatever happens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unprecedented, a unique situation to be in, at this level with such a huge impact in so many ways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal manager \u2013 Mikel Arteta<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very important that we respect the process and the timelines; it is still an ongoing process because it has been appealed,\u201d said the Spaniard, who was assistant manager to Pep Guardiola at City from 2015-2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy position, and I think the club\u2019s position, is to not make any comment until the appeal is fully resolved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our hands is the way we have prepared since the international break to set the club up to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everton manager \u2013 David Moyes<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks terrible that Everton have been docked points and had to pay fines, and this was not so long ago, but there are other things going on that were more than 10 years ago and have not been dealt, which I find really difficult,\u201d Moyes said in relation to the sanctions Everton faced, including being docked 10 points. Their charges related to breaches of financial sustainability rules between 2019 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope it is not just Everton that are being picked on. Manchester City have helped raise the level of the Premier League by the football they have played, their manager and the players they have had.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all had to park the bus, because they were that good and everybody used to say: \u2018Why are you not having a go?\u2019 \u2013 it was tough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut they were such a good side, and it was great times to play against Pep\u2019s teams because they had so many good players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea manager \u2013 Xavi Alonso<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to be patient and wait until the final sanctions from the panel; they are independent enough to assess the situation,\u201d Alonso said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever I say and whatever opinion we have, they are the ones to take it, and we need to respect it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not in our hands; let\u2019s see what happens, and then we need to respect it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Manchester City were found guilty of Premier League breaches, rival managers give their reaction as games resume.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":921989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,2057,596,588,85,3586],"class_list":["post-921988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-europe","tag-football","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921988","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=921988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}