Will Manchester City's Abu Dhabi Owners Be Forced to Sell the Club as Guilty Verdict Appeal Process Begins?

Gianluigi Donnarumma and others in the Manchester City dressing room will have questions for the board. The independent commission's finding that Manchester City systematically breached Premier League financial rules across nine seasons between 2009-18 has generated widespread debate about the nature and scale of any eventual punishment.

The commission found that City arranged commercial sponsorship contracts under which a number of the club's partners paid only a fraction of the agreed fees, with the remainder covered by Abu Dhabi United Group Investment & Development Ltd.

The schemes were found to have artificially inflated revenues and reduced costs by more than £900 million across the affected period, with the club additionally found guilty on the majority of charges relating to a failure to cooperate with the investigation.