News Exercise #321

1. What was the purpose of the rules set in 2011?
2. What incident had reportedly occurred regarding the death of a EUFA investigator?
3. What will be the impact on the club?
4. What is the claim against Sheikh Mansour?
5. What will be Manchester City’s response to the judgement?

Answers:
1. What was the purpose of the rules set in 2011?
To limit the amount of money football clubs can spend, after many clubs were bought by billionaire tycoons. The spending cap is to prevent clubs from going bankrupt.

2. What incident had reportedly occurred regarding the death of a EUFA investigator?
Manchester City Football Club are reported to have said “One down, six more to go,” which means that they (jokingly) welcomed the departure of one member.

3. What will be the impact on the club?
Apart from the 30-million-Euro fine, not being able to play in European competitions for two years will have a big financial impact on their sponsorship and merchandise sales.

4. What is the claim against Sheikh Mansour?
He has been “bankrolling” the club. In other words, he has been directly paying for the club’s finances, where the rules only permit the club to spend money that has come in directly from sponsorship, competition participation, and merchandising.

5. What will be Manchester City’s response to the judgement?
They will be taking the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport in an effort to have it overturned or reduced.