3 hours ago
3
La Liga president Javier Tebas says helium has reported Manchester City to the European Commission for alleged breaches of rules relating to state-owned companies.
Tebas - a long-standing professional of City - told media astatine the FT Business of Football Summit that the ailment was made successful 2023.
He said helium believed the lawsuit was presently successful an "investigation phase" by the European Commission - the enforcement assemblage of the European Union which develops and enforces laws for its subordinate states.
Tebas said that the ailment centres connected his content that "City person a operation that circumvents the rules" including a radical of companies successful the United Arab Emirates extracurricular the City Football Group.
La Liga argues that has fixed the Premier League champions a competitory vantage successful some English competitions and the Champions League.
City person not commented connected Tebas' allegations but nine sources are alert of them, and powerfully refute them.
Tebas said: "City person a batch of companies successful their radical which prevarication extracurricular the City Football Group structure, other companies wherever they enactment their expenses.
"These different companies suffer the wealth but not the nine itself. We person reported Manchester City to the EU. We person the facts and figures.
"We asked for City to beryllium checked. It's precise important that each clubs are taxable to the aforesaid transparency rules and governance connected some the sporting and fiscal side.
"The City lawsuit is 1 wherever we judge they person enactment the losses connected the companies that are not officially portion of City Football Group."
He added: "They person a scouting company, a selling company. That's wherever they person precise precocious expenses. They invoice City for little money.
"City person costs that are little than if they didn't person this ellipse of companies around."
Tebas said the ailment has been made nether Foreign Subsidies Regulation that came into effect connected 12 July 2023 and grants the EU powers to analyse state-controlled overseas subsidies.
City declined to comment, but sources adjacent to the nine said Tebas has a agelong past of attacking City.
City sources constituent to the club's accounts, which are a substance of nationalist record, arsenic impervious of nary wrongdoing.
City are awaiting the result of the proceeding into their 115 charges for alleged Premier League fiscal regularisation breaches. If they are recovered guilty, they could look a monolithic points deduction oregon relegation.
In 2022, La Liga filed a ailment to Uefa astir what it believed to beryllium "irregular financing" of City and Paris St-Germain, who Tebas antecedently described arsenic "state clubs".
BBC Sport has contacted the European Commission for comment.
English (US)