MANCHESTER CITY’S attempts to overturn their Prem “guilty” verdict could be holed by evidence THEY have previously given.
According to the independent commission’s “core” decision , the club claimed Prem lawyers had “misunderstood” how sponsorship agreements with Abu Dhabi-based companies had been funded.
that “no part of any” fees had been paid by Abu Dhabi United Group – the UAE’s private equity investment vehicle, owned by .
Instead, the club maintained that “from time to time” sponsors had taken “financial assistance” from the Abu Dhabi government “via the CPC” – the government-owned Crown Princes Court.
In its ruling, the commission “rejected that explanation as untrue” accusing City of “concocting” it “well after the event in an attempt to obscure and conceal” the true picture.
But it has now emerged that City gave a DIFFERENT explanation for payments in 2012 and 2013 to Uefa when it was defending Euro charges.
In that hearing, said two £15million payments had been made by a financial broker named Jaber Mohamed, described as “a person in the business of providing financial and brokering services to commercial entities in the UAE”.
In fact, Mohamed was the general director of the CPC.
That money was supposed to have come from telecom company .
But rather than disclosing the link to the CPC, City told Uefa “the payment was caused to be made by ADUG”.
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Timeline: What happens next?
- October 2 – Deadline to submit appeal
- December 25 – Deadline for appeal to conclude (12 weeks after appeal is lodged)
- December 14-18 – Possible date for maximum five-day appeal hearing
- January 17 – Deadline for commission to produce final verdict
That appears a direct contradiction of the planned appeal claims that the sponsors were funded by the government and not the club’s owner ADUG.
Uefa ruled that payments were made by ADUG “to disguise the true purpose of equity funding and those arrangements were carried into effect by the payments made by Jaber Mohamed”.
Its panel added: “The management of the club was well aware that the payments totalling £30m made by Jaber Mohamed were made as equity funding, not as payments for the sponsor on account of genuine sponsorship liabilities.”
While the Uefa panel found City had committed financial breaches and imposed a two-year European ban, in Switzerland on a 2-1 majority verdict.
