CHAMPIONS LEAGUE BAN HANGS OVER CITY

MANCHESTER CITY’S title celebrations have been tempered by news that UEFA investigators will push for a Champions League ban for alleged breaches of Financial Fair Play regulations. Insiders at UEFA believe any ban would not apply until the 2020-21 season because the process is ongoing, but it could coincide with a FIFA transfer ban over the signing of Under 18 players. A ban from the Champions League would certainly increase the pressure on Pep Guardiola to deliver the prize his employers covet most in the next campaign. The investigatory chamber of UEFA’s financial control board have spent months examining evidence first uncovered in a series of leaks and reported by German publication

Der Spiegel last year. And according to a report in the New York Times last night, a meeting two weeks ago at UEFA’s Swiss