La Liga president Javier Tebas is of the view that the prolonging the financial charges brought against Manchester City is damaging for the Premier League, Afrosport reports.
The Citizens were charged in February 2023 with over 115 alleged breaches of the Premier League’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules between 2009 and 2018 but no verdict has been made public, even as an independent commission heard the case between September and December 2024.
Tebas, speaking at the Financial Times Business of Football Summit in London on Thursday, questioned the uncertainty the drawn-out process the application has created having seen clubs like Nottingham Forest, Everton and Leicester City punished for breaching Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR) within this period.
“I understand that it’s a failure [of governance] – this happened with Manchester City and other clubs are looking and watching and listening,” he said.
“[Other clubs are] being fined, having points deducted, and that’s fine if you don’t abide by the rules. But Manchester City has impunity. I speak to a lot of Premier League clubs, and the majority don’t understand this either. That makes the institution weaker.”
He added: “It’s not just the delay, it’s the general situation. When a great institution like the Premier League, when you have to have rules for financial fair play, you need to have a lot of legal certainty in the competition and among clubs.”
Man City have previously stated they have irrefutable evidence to prove they never breached the Premier League’s financial regulations.
