London – The European Commission confirmed on Friday that he received a complaint from the Spanish Football League accusing the premiere champion of the Premier League Manchester City of Infraction Financial Rules.
The president of the League, Javier Tebas, intensified his attacks against City on Thursday when he revealed that he had filed the complaint in 2023 and accused the club backed by Abu Dhabi of causing a “serious distortion in the internal market of the European Union.”
Thebes said he believes that City has effectively hidden costs through the use of external companies to perform services.
“You can’t help, but think this is to border the rules. So we have denounced it to the European Union because, although this is an English club, the European Union supervises any commercial activity within Europe, “he said at a press conference in the business of the Financial Times of Football.
City, which is also waiting for the verdict on positions of More than 100 alleged violations Of the financial rules of the Premier League, he denied the accusation.
A commission spokesman confirmed Associated Press that he had received the complaint from the Spanish League, but could not comment on any ongoing evaluation.
Thebes’s complaint is related to regulations on foreign subsidies of states that are not from the EU that could distort the internal market of the block.
City became one of the richest football teams in the world when it was bought by the Abu Dhabi ruling family in 2008 and has dominated English football, winning eight titles of the Premier League and the Champions League between a series of trophies at that time.
But he has faced regular accusations about his accounts regarding the regulations of the financial real estate game in Europe and England.
The League accused City in February 2023 of providing misleading information about its finances for a period of nine years between 2009 and 18. During that time, it spent hundreds of millions of dollars in players such as Yaya Toure, Sergio Agüero and Kevin de Bruyne and won three League titles, in 2012, 2014 and 2018.
City denies those charges.
Thebes has been very critical of the city in the past and previously accused the four times English defender champion of “Irming irmanate to the football industry” due to its exorbitant expenditure.
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