Sheikh Mansour’s impact on Britain and Manchester goes far beyond football: 🏦 Helped rescue Barclays during the financial crisis 🏠 Thousands of new homes in Manchester 🏗️ Major regeneration of East Manchester 🎵 Helped deliver the £365M Co-op Live arena 🏨 New hotels and commercial developments 👷 Thousands of jobs created 🏆 Bought City’s first FA Cup trophy and donated it to the National Football Museum ⚽ Transformed #ManCity into a global football powerhouse A legacy far bigger than football. 🩵

The panel referred to Manchester City suddenly owing £20m at the end of the 2012-13 season, which corresponds, according to those familiar with the case, to a payout owed to then-manager Roberto Mancini and his staff, who had been sacked at the end of the season following the FA Cup final defeat by Wigan Athletic. Had the money been paid immediately, City would have been “£9.9m ‘short’ of complying with UEFA FFP for that season”, the panel said. The tribunal reported that “in a matter of days, a number of modified sponsor agreements were generated… to increase recorded fees, pay bonuses for events that had already taken place, and to pay for a U.S. tour”, thereby plugging the shortfall. City also asked sponsors to pay out bonuses for the FA Cup final as if they had won the match — rather than being defeated by the minnows thanks to Ben Watson’s injury-time header — according to people with knowledge of proceedings. The Premier League also raised the example of Sergio Aguero’s late, final-day winner against Queens Park Rangers in 2012, which secured City’s first Premier League title. That goal unlocked a number of bonuses within the squad which, if it had not been for the club’s operation of their disguised funding scheme, would have seen City exceed PSR for that season. 📝 @jwhitey98 nyti.ms/4z5sgoL

Tickets for our League Cup clash with Brighton are on sale now 🎟️🏆 Under-18 tickets are £1 and our Kids Fanzone will be in place for a midweek fixture for the first time 🩵 🔗 mancity.co/BrightonHTickets

It was a seemingly innocuous email, sent on a Wednesday morning in January 2017, that started everything. Arriving in the inbox of a senior official at Manchester City, it appeared to have been sent by an employee from European football’s governing body, UEFA, and contained a link to a financial compliance report. The City official clicked the download button. That was all it took. It was not a genuine email from UEFA but a successful phishing attempt by Portuguese hacker and activist Rui Pinto. City’s servers were breached, allowing Pinto to retrieve thousands of emails and documents from the club’s systems. This week, almost 10 years on from Pinto’s first email, the Premier League announced that an independent panel had found City guilty of all but one of the charges against them, as The Athletic first revealed last Friday. 📝 @jwhitey98: nyti.ms/4z5sgoL

#MCFC’s key defence in its appeal over the Premier League guilty verdict was denied by its own title sponsor Etihad Airways in an extensive submission to the US government in 2015 With @SamWallaceTel ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/football/202…

Can’t wait for Sheikh Mansours father in law to pull the Emirates sponsorship from Arsenal .You can’t shit on the UAE with zero consequences 🩵🩵🩵

City Matters statement

Ferran Soriano’s message to #ManCity staff. ⤵️ ➖ Case based on ‘false accusation’ ➖ Sponsorship money not from owner ➖ ‘Irrefutable evidence’ provided ➖ Premier League ‘conspiracy theory’ ➖ Extensive evidence ‘ignored’ ➖ Conclusion ‘clearly wrong’ ➖ Appeal will be filed ➖ ‘We have been here before’ ➖ ‘We will be relentless’ ➖ ‘Other legal avenues’ will be explored ➖ Will ‘seek compensation’ for damages ➖ ‘We will look back’ on ‘overcoming adversity’