Manchester City chief executive Ferran Soriano was grilled on television moments after the Premier League confirmed the club were guilty of the most serious breaches of the financial rules.
An independent commission ruled that Man City had disguised payments worth £900m in a nine-year period peppered with ‘sham’ deals.
In a damning 40-page verdict City, who won eight trophies during the spell involved, artificially inflated sponsorship agreements and pumped money into the club from its Abu Dhabi owners via disguised payments in a bid to swerve Premier League spending rules.
The eight-times champions were found guilty of ‘all charges related to serious breaches’ of the regulations and
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