{"id":21417,"date":"2022-04-08T09:12:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T08:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/?p=21417"},"modified":"2022-04-08T08:04:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T07:04:08","slug":"manchester-city-to-be-investigated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/manchester-city-to-be-investigated\/manchester-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City to be Investigated?"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is always a lot of controversy with transfers for some clubs, for example, Chelsea was investigated while Lampard was in charge of them, meaning no transfers. There is now a new investigation taking place with Manchester City being the team involved!<\/p>\n

The investigation is into a possible rule break that could leave Manchester City being transfer-banned like Chelsea was. It’s believed that Manchester City has been illegally making payments for underage players, inflated sponsorship deals, and hiding some salary payments made to the former manager!<\/p>\n

Manchester City and the Premier League have declined any comments that were approached by the BBC.<\/p>\n

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According to Der Spiegel, German Newspaper, Manchester City was allegedly pressuring their young players ” to sign contracts with Manchester City through monetary payments, in violation of the rules”. For the sponsorship, they have been alleged to have “provided only a portion of their payments to the club themselves”.<\/p>\n

If all this turns out to be true, they will more than likely receive either a point deduction or a transfer ban for a couple of years!<\/p>\n

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There is always a lot of controversy with transfers for some clubs, for example, Chelsea was investigated while Lampard was in charge of them, meaning no transfers. There is now a new investigation taking place with Manchester City being the team involved! The investigation is into a possible rule break that could leave Manchester City…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[700,769],"tags":[2356],"class_list":["post-21417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-manchester-city","category-premier-league","tag-pl-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21419,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21417\/revisions\/21419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}