LaLiga requests UEFA also investigate Manchester City

Posted Tuesday, September 05, 2017 by Marca.com

While Paris Saint-Germain took most of the attention with regards to sizable spending this past summer, Manchester City have not escaped scorn with LaLiga formally requesting UEFA investigate the English club.

In a statement which was published to welcome the UEFA decision to open an investigation in the Parisian club, the Spanish top-flight called for a similar process to be put into action with regards to Pep Guardiola's club.

PSG's signing of Neymar for 222 million euros caught the eye but City also parted with around 230m euros as part of their own squad restructuring process which saw Kyle Walker, Bernardo Silva, Ederson, Benjamin Mendy and Danilo all join.

LaLiga president, Javier Tebas, made clear in the statement that clubs simply could not accept the fact that both clubs in question were essentially being backed by an entire state."

The funding of PSG and Manchester City is thanks to state aid, this distorts European competitions and as we have seen, created an inflationary spiral that threatens to irreparably damage the footballing industry," he explained.

Both clubs have fallen foul of UEFA's Financial Fair Play regulations in previous years and there is now a rather keen eye from Spain on just what punishment will be handed down on this occasion.

Tebas also called on the governing body to take a closer look into the payment structures of deals which took Neymar and Kylian Mbappe to the French capital.

"It is important that UEFA doesn't just look at the most recent player transfers, but at PSG's history of non-compliance. The transfers are merely the result of years of financial doping at PSG," he concluded.