{"id":69914,"date":"2018-12-04T01:39:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T00:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/12\/04\/manchester-city-may-face-champions-league-ban-after-uefa-ffp-investigation\/"},"modified":"2018-12-04T01:39:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T00:39:36","slug":"manchester-city-may-face-champions-league-ban-after-uefa-ffp-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=69914","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City may face Champions League ban after Uefa FFP investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Promise of strong action if Der Spiegel allegations are proved\u2022 Potential ban could come into effect as early as next seasonManchester City could be banned from the Champions League, perhaps as early as next season, as Uefa looks set to take strong action should the club be found to have flouted Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules. An independent investigation by European football\u2019s governing body into City\u2019s behaviour was recently opened after information was made public by the Football Leaks hack and published in the German magazine Der Spiegel alleged City used sponsorship deals to circumvent rules on how much money owners can put into a club.At a meeting of Uefa\u2019s executive committee in Dublin the president, Aleksander Ceferin, described the investigation as \u201ca concrete case\u201d and pledged an outcome \u201cvery soon\u201d. Uefa officials believe the integrity of one of the organisation\u2019s key rules is under threat and that sporting sanctions are the only appropriate response should City be found to have flouted them. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2018\/dec\/04\/manchester-city-may-face-champions-league-ban-uefa-ffp-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City may face Champions League ban after Uefa FFP investigation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Promise of strong action if Der Spiegel allegations are proved\u2022 Potential ban could come into effect as early as next seasonManchester City could be banned from the Champions League, perhaps as early as next season, as Uefa looks set to take strong action should the club be found to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}