City confident of appeal joy

will know the resolution, so all the workers here, the players, the staff, the whole club can continue growing over the next few years.”

UEFA’S guilty finding followed publication of leaked emails and other documents by German magazine Der Spiegel in November 2018.

Official papers appeared to show a huge chunk of City’s £67.5million annual sponsorship as coming from Etihad Airways.

But one of the emails suggested that in 2015-16 only £8m was funded directly by Etihad, the rest sourced from City owner Sheikh Mansour’s Abu Dhabi United Group.

City – who were found guilty of FFP breaches in 2014 – claim the latest process was “flawed” and that their guilt was prejudged by UEFA watchdogs.