Football Leaks reveal UEFA collusion with Manchester City and PSG | OneFootball

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Phil Costa·2 November 2018

Football Leaks reveal UEFA collusion with Manchester City and PSG

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According to Football Leaks, UEFA arranged secret settlements with Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain that allowed the clubs to cheat its own Financial Fair Play rules.

An investigation conducted by the EIC Network claim that Senior UEFA administrators, including the ex-secretary general and current FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, personally intervened to encourage settlements with big clubs.


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They also report that the Club Financial Control Body (CFCB) aggressively pursued poorer clubs in the likes of Turkey and Romania to divert attention.

Infantino – who left UEFA for FIFA in autumn 2015 – is believed to have stepped in to negotiate directly with the clubs under investigation.

This resulted in secret settlements that hid the extent to which owners were exploiting sponsorship contracts to bankroll their clubs.

Football Leaks claim that PSG owners Qatar Sports Investments injected €1.8bn into the club (frauding FFP in the process) only for Michel Platini and Infantino to cover it up.

This prevented the club from being banned from all European competitions.


Football Leaks have also revealed that 16 of Europe’s top clubs are in talks to create a Super League: read the report here.