Manchester City to launch appeal as financial breach fallout grows

Manchester City are expected to press ahead with an ⁠appeal against ⁠findings that they breached Premier League financial rules by Friday’s deadline, opening a new chapter in a case that ⁠has already become one of the most significant in English football. The club has consistently denied wrongdoing and indicated they will challenge an ⁠independent commission’s findings that they used “sham” commercial contracts as part of schemes to inflate revenue and understate costs by more than 900 million pounds ($1.19bn) over nearly a decade. City have said they have a body of “irrefutable evidence” ‌that will clear the club’s name and are expected to argue that the government of Abu Dhabi – not the club’s owners – partly funded the sponsorship deals.