Curious reason
Manchester City has to pay millions
06/20/2025 – 06:53 a.m.Reading time: 1 min.
Manchester City has been sentenced to a million dollar penalty by the English league. The reason is a bit strange.
Pep Guardiola’s team has trouble with the league again – this time not because of the ongoing investigations into possible financial violations, but because of repeated delays in the kick -off. Manchester City has to pay a high fine due to numerous delays.
As the Premier League announced, the club has accepted a payment of £ 1.08 million (equivalent to 1.27 million euros). The background is nine cases in which games were kicked off due to delays with delay. Particularly striking: the start of the city derby against Manchester United in Old Trafford was delayed by 2 minutes and 24 seconds.
City has apologized for the incidents, but the insight is limited. Because the club had already been asked to pay for 22 similar violations in the season before – at that time the punishment was even £ two million.