The European Commission confirmed Friday that it received a complaint from the Spanish soccer league accusing defending Premier League champion Manchester City of breaching financial rules.
City became one of the richest soccer teams in the world when bought by the ruling family of Abu Dhabi in 2008 and has gone on to dominate English soccer, winning eight Premier League titles and the Champions League among a slew of trophies in that time.
La Liga President Javier Tebas stepped up his attacks against City on Thursday when he revealed he had filed the complaint in 2023 and accused the Abu Dhabi-backed club of causing a “serious distortion in the internal market of the European Union.".
So we have denounced it to the European Union because even though this is an English club, the European Union oversees any commercial activity inside Europe," he told a news conference at the Financial Times Business of Football Summit.
City, which is also awaiting the verdict on charges of more than 100 alleged breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules, denied the allegation.
