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Manchester City appeal judgement that club breached Premier League financial rules

Manchester City on Friday appealed an independent commission's findings that the club had seriously breached the Premier League's financial rules for more than a decade. The commission found the 10-time English champions had arranged phoney commercial deals with a number of its sponsors as part of a

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Reuters foregrounds the commission’s guilty finding and adds the most specific allegations, including the quoted “sham” contracts and the £900 million figure. Al Jazeera and Sky both focus more on the appeal angle, but only Al Jazeera notes that the club has protested its innocence throughout the long-running case. Sky’s extract is the most detached from the ruling itself, instead asking whether other Premier League clubs could seek compensation if the finding stands.

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