Team risk Champions League exclusion

The union of European Football associations (UEFA) has opened a case against Manchester City for possible breaches of Financial Fair Play (FFP).

It will write several news agencies on Thursday.

the Investigation will focus on allegations of breaches of the CFP, which has been brought by the media, writes Uefa in a press release, according to Reuters.

- We have no further comments while the investigation is ongoing, writes UEFA on.

Manchester City might be excluded from future Champions League competitions if the club are punished, writes Reuters.

Background of the case is leaked documents from whistleblowerplatformen Football Leaks.

According to these documents helped the current president of The International Football federation (FIFA), Gianni Infantino, in his time as general secretary of the UEFA, Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain to bypass the FFP rules in 2014.

the Rules sets out a framework for the clubs ' spending in order to ensure a form of fair play and avoid, to budgets and consumption escalates, so bottomless debt and bankruptcies are a reality among the football clubs.

You can broadly say that clubs must not spend more money than they earn. And there are strict limits to how large a deficit should be over a period of several years.

Since may, 2016 Manchester City spent about 4.4 billion dollars on players.

Behind PSG and City are the top owners from Qatar and Abu Dhabi.

despite the fact that the clubs according to the leaked papers have used irregular economic means to inflate the budgets up, slap both with fines in 2014.

City and PSG left off at the time with the fines at the three-digit million amount in Danish kroner, but they avoided the exclusion from the major european club competitions.

The ultimate punishment will be to be excluded from the Champions League, and it can become reality, for example City, when UEFA have researched the situation carefully and take a decision.

Manchester City manager Josep Guardiola said in december that he does not fear that his players in the future may see the Champions League in front of the television.

- We are not out of the question. This is what our president and director has explained to me. Them I trust.

- But if we become excluded, for it is the UEFA's decision, then we must accept it and move on, said Josep Guardiola at the time, according to AFP.

Clubs such as Galatasaray and Red Star from Belgrade have in the past been affected by the exclusion in order to break the same set of rules.

the FACTS: Such are the rules of financial fair play in the football

The union of European Football associations (UEFA) announced on Thursday that the federation has opened a case against the English Manchester City for possible breaches of Financial Fair Play (FFP.

the Uefa introduced the concept of the CFP in 2010 to fight rising debt amongst the clubs.

the Whole the basic idea is that clubs must not spend more money than they earn.

learn more about the CFP here:

* From 2013 to 2015 may clubs have a maximum of a debt of 45 million euros (about 334 million) in the total three-year period. From 2016 to 2018, the amount is reduced to 30 million euros (about 223 million euros).

* Investment in stadiums, training facilities, youth branches and female football is not included in the amount. The reason is that UEFA want to encourage economic investment in these areas.

* A club must have positive equity.

* the Club must not owe money to another club for trades that are over 12 months old. It must also not owe the employees or tax purposes money.

* A club must earn themselves out of the negative numbers. This means that a capital injection from, for example, a musician without a corresponding quid pro quos in the form of shares or other values are not allowed.

* Currently examine Manchester City to have broken the rules, and also French Paris Saint-Germain have been mentioned as a club, UEFA are looking at. The clubs have entered into sponsorship deals where the clubs top owners in the creative show has added amounts that are significantly larger than sponsoraternes real value. The large amount is allegedly infused with the clubs to ensure that they comply with the CFP rules.

Sources: UEFA, AFP, Football Leaks, the news agency Ritzau.

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