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4 of 17 hedged
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Man City lodges 'comprehensive' appeal after being found guilty of financial rule-breaking
Club has yet to receive a punishment for the violations found
Manchester City has lodged a "comprehensive" appeal, the club confirmed Friday, following the publication of a report by an independent commission detailing large-scale financial rule-breaking by the Premier League giant.
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club → lodge → giant
"The club's firm position," read a short statement from City, "is that, on multiple grounds, the opinion contains clear material errors, of law, principle and fact and is unsafe."
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opinion → read → law
City has protested its innocence throughout the long-running case, which dates back to 2018, and reached a milestone Tuesday when the Premier League published a verdict saying the Abu Dhabi-controlled club was "guilty of all charges related to serious breaches" of the competition's financial rules from 2009-18.
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club → protest → 2009
Officials said they would lodge an appeal and that was filed on Thursday evening, the club said, ahead of Friday's deadline.
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club → say → deadline
"The club is innocent of the accusations made by the Premier League and a comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence exists in support of all of its positions, relating to this case," City said, using language from previous statements on the case.
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City → make → case
According to the Premier League handbook, the chair of the three-person disciplinary commission that found against City now has to appoint a new appeal board.
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that → accord → board
That also will consist of three people, one of whom "shall have held judicial office," the league's rules state.
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rules → consist → office
The appeal board will then schedule a hearing that should finish within 12 weeks after the appeal is filed, and cannot exceed five consecutive days.
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appeal → schedule → days
City has yet to receive a punishment for the violations found.
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City → have → violations
That will be addressed in a separate, confidential hearing with the commission and there has been no word whether sanctions can be imposed before the decision of the appeal is reached.
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decision → address → appeal
The Premier League has only said its intention is that the process is concluded "as soon as possible."
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process → say → ?
According to the Premier League, potential sanctions against City could be a reprimand, a fine, a suspension, points deduction or, in the worst case, expulsion from the competition.
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sanctions → accord → competition
No team has ever been expelled from English soccer's top flight.
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team → expel → flight
, according to commission
City was found to have systematically broken the Premier League's financial rules for nearly a decade in what the competition's chief executive, Richard Masters, described as the most significant disciplinary case in the league's history.
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executive → accord → history
The investigatory panel found that City artificially inflated its revenue — using what the league has called "sham" commercial deals — by more than $1 billion US from 2009-18 to circumvent financial fair-play rules that restricted rival clubs, and allowing City to buy some of the best players in the world.
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City → find → world
That was the foundation of a long and unprecedented period of success in which City changed the landscape of the world's most popular soccer league, with the northwest club winning eight league titles from 2012-24.
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club → change → 2012
City committed almost all of the 115-plus violations, the commission found: 80 from 2009-18 for alleged financial misdeeds and another 35 from 2018-23 for allegedly not cooperating with the investigation.
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commission → commit → investigation
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