August 2015: Only ?8m of Etihad's ?67.5 sponsorship "should be funded directly by Etihad and ?59.5 by [ManCity owner] ADUG": Was it that simple for Manchester City to break Financial Fair Play rules?
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Exclusive excerpts from the #FootballLeaks data! This is how Manchester City planned to inflate Abu Dhabi sponsorships: Aabar signs up for 15m sponsorship, but "His Highness" apparently provides 12m of that:
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Now the Uefa investigators are in an extraordinary situation: they could actually access internal documents from Manchester City.*For that they would have to ask Rui Pinto.*The 30-year-old whistleblower on the Football Leaks platform is already cooperating with several European law enforcement agencies.*Pinto has stated in interviews that he could support Uefa with his data.*But so far, neither the association itself, nor its commission has reported to him or one of his lawyers.*This raises the question of how serious the investigators really are.
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Manchester City*has against the rules of the*Financial Fair Play (FFP) of the Uefa*violated and it collects a lenient sentence in, 2014.*But the association investigators at that time hid the true extent of the trickery.*Accordingly, the English club seems to have feigned significantly higher income in order to afford even more expensive investments and player transfers.*According to FFP rules, revenue and expenditure are roughly balanced.
The leaflet leaflet*Football Leaks*suggests that much of the sponsorship money from Abu Dhabi companies did not flow into the club from the companies themselves.*The main sponsor, the renowned airline Etihad, apparently did not pay the contractually promised hundreds of millions of euros for years - but only eight million a year.
The rest was apparently shot down by the club owner.*Etihad has denied the allegations.*In principle, Manchester City does not comment on football leaks and declares that it is facing an attempt to damage its reputation.*The SPIEGEL documents were hacked or stolen and taken out of context.
SPIEGEL revelations last November, Uefa has now taken the opportunity to take a closer look at Manchester City again.*The reports are based on in-club records provided by the Football Leaks disclosure platform to SPIEGEL and the European Search Network European Investigative Collaborations (EIC).*Some excerpts from these documents are now available for the first time in the following image gallery:
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