El caso del Manchester City explicado por un experto en finanzas: "Pueden descender de categoría"

Los cargos a los que se enfrentan los citizens, a pocas fechas de conocer la resolución

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00:00Lo que Manchester City están acusados de es efectivamente corporal fraud

00:05durante una duración de nueve años.

00:07Pero ellos han sido acusados a la Premier League en relación a sus finanzas.

00:16City han efectivamente sido acusados de tres cosas por la Premier League.

00:21Primero, ellos han sido artificiadamente inflando el dinero de los clubes.

00:26So, they've been claiming that they've received money from sponsors,

00:31but actually it was handouts from the owner.

00:34The second accusation is that City have been paying people off the grid.

00:41The most high-profile accusation is that Roberto Mancini

00:45was being paid around about £2m a year by City,

00:49and he was being paid a further £2m by a football club in Abu Dhabi

00:54for four days' work a year.

00:55People say, well, why does that matter?

00:58Well, it's because under the cost control rules,

01:00you're allowed to lose £105m over three years.

01:04The third accusation against Manchester City

01:07is that they've not cooperated with the Premier League.

01:13City's response to this is, oh, hold on,

01:16all of these charges are coming through the fact

01:18that somebody's hacked our email system.

01:21Why would we cooperate with anybody who's trying to charge us on the basis of hacking our IT system?

01:29The sanctions range from financial penalties in terms of fines

01:32to sporting penalties in terms of deductions or relegation or stripping of titles.

01:38So all of those things are kind of within the arc of what the Premier League can do.

01:44The biggest question is whether they will do.

01:46We're looking at a cost for both parties in excess of £100m in terms of legal and witness fees.

01:54That money's got to come out of somebody's pocket.

01:58If City lose, it will have to come out of theirs.

02:00If City win, all the other football clubs in the Premier League,

02:03they'll be on the hook for it.