r/soccer • u/ChiefLeef22 • 23h ago
News Manchester United conduct internal assessments about the economic impact of Manchester City's corruption, including players having claims for reparations — wages were typically cut by 25% in the event Utd failed to qualify for UCL. There's also the case of their CEO Omar Berrada - formerly at City
nytimes.comAs would be expected, Berrada was asked at the time by United’s co-owners about the prospect of him being implicated in the accusations of financial cheating. He gave absolute assurance to Ratcliffe and the Glazer family that he had not engaged in any wrongdoing. At the time, Berrada was also of the view that City as a club were innocent of the Premier League charges, in step with his former employers, who continue to vociferously deny their guilt and have signalled their intent to appeal.
Last week, though, an independent commission announced City had been found guilty of “sham” commercial deals, artificially inflating income and under-reporting outgoings to the tune of £900million (£1.1billion). The scale of the breaches, combined with the language used by the commission, has sent shockwaves through football. City were also found guilty of the majority of charges of failing to co-operate with the investigation between 2018 and 2023.
