{"id":787324,"date":"2026-09-30T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787324\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:30:10","slug":"man-city-guilty-qa-with-football-finance-expert-kieran-maguire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/787324\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City guilty &#8211; Q&#038;A with football finance expert Kieran Maguire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;How about the players who were denied titles?&#8217;published at 11:10 BST<\/p>\n<p>11:10 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-qs9kpv-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/5473252a-edeb-41d3-bcf9-be76b8a91eff.jpg.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Kieran Maguire<br \/>Football finance expert<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dan: How many clubs do you think will seek compensation? Not just the teams that have lost  out on titles but also teams who lost twice to Manchester City and got relegated? <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some clubs will seek a private settlement &#8211; a negotiated settlement. I don&#8217;t think it will be a class action or a collective move. Some clubs have got more of an emotional relation in this than others. Others are purely financial. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Then there is a further issue. How about the players of those clubs who were denied the opportunity to win titles and play in the Champions League in particular?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If you talk to players, often those with the big six clubs, they would say they are on 20-25% bonus on income if they play in the Champions League. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Average annual earnings of a player in the big six was around \u00a38m last year. 25% of that is \u00a32m and if you multiply that by a 25-man squad, you&#8217;ve got \u00a350m. It could be something that could go into the equation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;How about the players who were denied titles?&#8217;published at 11:10 BST 11:10 BST Kieran MaguireFootball finance expert Dan:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-787324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-gb","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}