00:00Manchester City has been found guilty of 113 out of 114 cases of financial fair play failure.
00:09They did not follow the financial rules.
00:11They inflated budgets.
00:13They falsified, allegedly, they falsified information of how much money the club was receiving or how much money they were
00:21spending.
00:22So they could be always within that range of finances that UEFA, you know, has designed as healthy for a
00:31club so they can continue to be investing in players and have an incoming and exiting of players.
00:37And now we're talking about 10 years of possible titles that are going to be voided.
00:43They might be expelled from the Premier League altogether.
00:46They might be demoted to the second division.
00:48They might start, we don't know, the world is eager to know how the APL is going to deal with
00:54this situation, Camila.
00:55But it's sad to see that the work that is done on the field that you cannot take away from
01:01these players, these players went to the field, these players played the matches, these players won the matches, it might
01:07be all stained and with an asterisk for the rest of their life.
01:11If you're not going to get, even if they give the title to someone else, those teams and those players
01:16will never feel in their heart that they deserve it because they didn't want it on the pitch.
01:22It's a big mess, Camila.
01:24Yeah, definitely.
01:24I mean, the Premier League CEO, Richard Masters, is officially calling it the most significant disciplinary case in league history.
01:33I mean, this is what the commission found, if you don't know, these are sham contracts, right, with commercial partners
01:39used to disguise secret funding of more than 830 million pounds.
01:45That's roughly 830 million pounds.
01:49That's about 1.1 billion American dollars from the Abu Dhabi ownership.
01:54Just, you know, something like this is over, of course, like 10 years, but this is really, really messy.
02:01This is ultimately, in my opinion, does need consequences, though, because like you said, oh, the players on the field,
02:09they were the ones that played.
02:09But would they have had those players on the field in the first place if it wasn't for, you know,
02:14this money laundering?
02:15I don't know if they would have had funds to do so.
02:17Without a doubt, Camila, it's a sad situation, and it will continue to be monitored in the media because the
02:25consequences are going to be important for football.
02:27If they get away with a slap in their hand, other teams might say, you know what, if they pull
02:32it off, maybe we can pull it off.
02:34And then you bring, again, further doubt into the game.
02:37Like, it's already an industry that has been associated with crime and dishonesty and lack of transparency, a lot of
02:47double contracts, a lot of mismanagement of funds within the world of football.
02:52We cannot, you know, no podemos tapar el sol con un dedo, como dicen en mi tierra.
02:57And also, I think, you know, City's response, and so on, the club is saying that it's innocent and calls
03:01the findings an opinion, right, with errors.
03:05I mean, we know that City says it's going to be relentless.
03:07They have officially submitted appeals.
03:10So this is going to be a long and a messy process.
03:13And, you know, sanctions are, like you said, are going to be decided.
03:16We don't have anything done so far.
03:18A date has not been announced for these sanctions to come out.
03:21But, you know, I'm thinking about the players on the field, like you said.
03:24This is bound to affect their game.
03:26We know that they're going to be playing.
03:28City plays PSG in the Champions League on October 14th.
03:32This is with the scandal hanging over their heads.
03:35So I'm really interested to see in this game how it goes down.
