City slam threat of FFP ban
How Pep Guardiola motivated City to retain the title
“HOW can no team in the last 10 years not retain the title? What is it?
“It’s got to be mentality. The manager tried to change that, change the mentality – he brought in
The title race and the rivalry with Liverpool
“EVERY time we play Liverpool now, that’s when the stadium is at its loudest, the fans are roaring.
“The game against Liverpool at home – we did
His European heartbreak and the last-gasp VAR drama
“I REMEMBER before the game saying, ‘This is the day. This is the day’.
“And in the last seconds, I’m thinking, ‘I’ve scored that goal, the World Cup final goal’. I celebrated like that.
“Then I remember seeing
Becoming the penalty-taker
“I FEEL myself improving all the time. Especially with responsibility.
“That’s something I want to show a lot more of. I’m outside now, practising the penalties all the time.
“Hopefully, the gaffer will fines to keep people in check, to make sure we were serious and ready.
“They were just for things like being late for a meeting – little things to make sure your mentality is right and you were not slipping away.
“Then, when we showed our mentality was right, he took the fines out.
“But, credit to him, because the standard has been raised this season.”
say as a group that if we could win that game, then we still had a chance of winning the title race.
“It was a must-win game. We knew how high the stakes were and you realise this is getting serious now.
“It was crunch time and I’m just grateful we were able to get over the line.” the VAR and remember thinking, ‘Yeah, I think Sergio could have been offside…’
“I remember going home that night and my son was in the car. He’s only two now, but absolutely loves football.
“He was kind of sleepy, then he woke up as I was bringing him upstairs, and he goes, ‘Daddy score, Daddy win’. And I went, ‘No, Daddy scored, but we didn’t win today’. That was horrible, absolutely horrible.”
see me taking MANCHESTER CITY came out fighting after they were referred to UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body for alleged breaches of Financial Fair Play rules.
City said they were “disappointed, but not surprised” at the development, with the club facing a Champions League ban if found guilty.
UEFA investigators are understood to want City banned from the Champions League for one year if they are found to have violated FFP.
Chief investigator Yves Leterme has made his recommendation to UEFA and his panel will have the final say over what action to take against City, who deny all the allegations.
City, fined £49million in 2014 for breaking FFP rules, have been accused of another breach by allegedly inflating the value of a lucrative sponsorship deal.
City responded with a statement, which said that the club “is disappointed, but not surprised, by the sudden announcement of the referral.
“The accusation of financial irregularities remains entirely false.”