{"id":876015,"date":"2026-10-09T06:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T06:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876015\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T06:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T06:42:12","slug":"man-city-charges-mourinho-jokes-premier-league-case-will-outlast-him-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/876015\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City charges: Mourinho jokes Premier League case will outlast him | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jose Mourinho, one of most outspoken against Man City spending when United manager, jibes EPL appeal to outlast him.<\/p>\n

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Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho joked that he may not live to see the end of Manchester City\u2019s legal battle with the Premier League after the club appealed against a ruling that found it guilty of serious financial rule breaches.<\/p>\n

An independent commission found City guilty of all charges<\/a> relating to breaches of Premier League financial regulations between the 2009-10 and 2017-18 seasons, as well as three of four charges relating to failures to cooperate with the investigation. City have denied wrongdoing and lodged an appeal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Premier League said that City used \u201csham\u201d commercial agreements to inflate revenue and understate costs by more than 900 million pounds ($1.19bn) over nearly a decade, resulting in inaccurate financial reporting and breaches of spending rules.<\/p>\n

Mourinho managed Manchester United from 2016 to 2018 and led them to a second-placed Premier League finish behind Pep Guardiola\u2019s City in 2017-18.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would rather laugh about it,\u201d Mourinho said when asked about the case in an interview with Italy\u2019s Corriere dello Sport.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we will eventually get an ending, but we are both in our 60s, and we\u2019ll need to be lucky enough to still be around when the final verdict arrives.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be a verdict, then appeals, then more appeals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mourinho has long maintained that one of his greatest achievements in football management was finishing second behind Guardiola\u2019s side, given their spending power at the time.<\/p>\n

The Portuguese manager, now 63, said in 2024 that he had not given up on being awarded a winner\u2019s medal for the 2018 season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we still have a chance to win that league because maybe they punish Man City with points and maybe we win that league,\u201d he quipped at a press conference ahead of a Europa League match against United with his then-club, Fenerbahce.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen they have to pay me the bonus and give me the medal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The appeal process will be conducted in private, and it remains unclear whether any sanctions would be imposed before it is heard, or whether any punishment would take effect immediately.<\/p>\n

City, seeking a sixth successive league win, are top of the Premier League with 15 points from five matches and travel to Liverpool on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Holders Arsenal entertain Leeds on Saturday, while United host Tottenham later the same day.<\/p>\n

Mourinho\u2019s Real Madrid trail fierce rivals and La Liga leaders Barcelona by six points, with five wins and two defeats from their seven league matches this season.<\/p>\n

Both Barca and Real are in action on Saturday, with Getafe and Villarreal visiting, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jose Mourinho, one of most outspoken against Man City spending when United manager, jibes EPL appeal to outlast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1076,399,403,1079,99,1049],"class_list":["post-876015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-europe","tag-football","tag-soccer","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-united-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}