Sky Sports forced to apologise to Manchester City on live TV for what pundit Tim Sherwood said about club
Sky Sports forced to apologise to Manchester City on live TV for what pundit Tim Sherwood said about club
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Sponsored by. SKY presenter Simon Thomas was forced into an awkward apology after Tim Sherwood's on-air comments about Manchester City. The former Blackburn midfielder joined Soccer Saturday to report on the weekend's Premier League action. Sherwood and the rest of the panel discussed City's January transfer dealing as they looked ahead to Saturday's game with Chelsea at the Etihad.
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Trio Omar Marmoush, Abdukodir Khusanov and Vitor Reis have arrived at the Etihad for a combined spend of over £100million over the past few weeks. City were slapped with a whopping 115 charges last February over alleged breaches of Financial Fair Play rules.
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Sherwood said: "They seem to be the only team who can spend money, and they've got 115 [charges] over their head.". Asked by co-pundit Paul Merson if he believed City were heading for a transfer embargo, he replied: "Perhaps yeah, they must know something.".
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Sherwood continued: "They’re trying to build for the future, they made a mistake by not buying in the summer. "I think they’ve realised that, it’s obviously brilliant in hindsight, we’ve all got a degree in that. "If there’s players available they will go and get them, even if they have to pay over the top, they don’t care. Man City make their own rules up.".
BEST FREE BET SIGN UP OFFERS FOR UK BOOKMAKERS. Following an ad break, host Thomas was put on screen to issue an apology on behalf of Sky. Thomas said: "We had a conversation earlier today in the build-up about Manchester City [regarding] their transfer business.
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