00:00Ce que Manchester City est accusée de croyectif est effectivement corporate fraud
00:05pendant une année de 9 ans.
00:07Ils ont été liés à la Premier League en relation à leurs finances.
00:16City ont effectivement été accusé de trois choses par la Premier League.
00:21First de tout, ils ont été artificiellement inflating le argent qui vient de l'hôtel.
00:27Donc, ils ont dit qu'ils ont reçu de l'hôtel de sponsors, mais en fait, c'était des handouts
00:33de l'hôtel.
00:34La seconde accusation est que City ont été payé les gens off-the-grid.
00:40Le plus haut-profile accusé est que Roberto Mancini était payé environ 2 millions de dollars par année par City,
00:49et il était payé un plus de 2 millions de dollars par un club en Abu Dhabi pour 4 jours
00:55par année.
00:55People say, well, why does that matter?
00:58Well, it's because under the cost control rules, you're allowed to lose £105 million over three years.
01:04The third accusation against Manchester City is that they've not cooperated with the Premier League.
01:12That City's response to this is, oh, hold on, all 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 to sporting penalties in terms
01:34of 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 £100 million 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, they will be on the hook for it.
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