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Enzo Maresca says his players must overcome the noise surrounding the club.
Manchester City striker Erling Haaland said after Sunday's win at Liverpool that it was a tough experience to go through, but he clearly enjoyed the aftermath of their 3-0 victory...
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All this faux outrage from teams wanting nothing more than to cement the established order of winning. The only way to break this order is to do what City did (I wish other clubs including my own would have tried the same). I envy City fans and their winning memories.
Rob, Hoylake
We spent more money than we should have done, we still had to win the games on pitch. The real crime in most people's eyes is that we won not that we over-spent. In any other business, we’d be applauding an owner who invested in his company.
Tom, Manchester
The mass hysteria. The shocking lack of perspective. If X paid the sponsorship Manchester City are guilty. If Y paid Manchester City are innocent. And somehow pundits and media have turned into the worst cheating ever. Ridiculous.
Carl, Manchester
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Maresca calls on Man City squad to 'make their own noise' after Liverpool win
Manchester City manager Enzo Maresca challenged his players to continue making their own "noise" after earning a comprehensive 3-0 win at Liverpool in their first match since the club was found guilty of breaching financial regulations.
Maresca's City side braved hostility from the stands at Anfield before giving their own supporters plenty to cheer with second-half goals from Erling Haaland, Jeremy Doku and Rayan Cherki, following the dismissal of Reds midfielder Ryan Gravenberch.
"It was not easy for the players after the last two or three weeks but I felt they dealt with the situation very good," said Maresca, after the Premier League leaders maintained their 100% start to the season with a sixth win.
"We need to learn how to deal with the outside noise. Because of the situation the noise will always be there.
"At the same time we need to try to make our own noise. That is to win games, like we have done today.
"At the end of the game our fans were singing, so the noise was from us and not from the environment."
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If you are just joining us, here is a recap of what we have been talking about this morning:
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City fans using the words "illegal hack" come across as if they are deluding themselves, saying it as if the fact they were caught by a hacker invalidates the fact they were caught! How they were caught is irrelevant!
Lewis, Warrington
I was sympathetic to some degree for the City fans until yesterday. But the attitude of those at the game stinks. How about a bit of humility? Banners like "In Khaldoon we trust" are effectively laughing in the face of the rest of the league. Deserve everything they get.
Chris, Stoke-on-Trent
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Stephen Warnock
Former Liverpool defender on BBC Radio 5 Live at Anfield
The hard part is that this is a brilliant Manchester City team but you have to caveat it and say they have done it illegally and they bought their way. You're caught in what you're thinking about this City team.
I admire them because they're so good individually and so great but the way it has been done and put together we now know it's not been put together correctly.
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Gary Neville
Former Manchester United defender on Sky Sports
At the end of the game you're imagining if the guilty verdicts are confirmed there's going to be a cloud over the club.
Anfield is a very difficult ground to win at. Those City players and staff are celebrating together. Liverpool fans are singing 'you're going down.'
So you get a sense of the background of this game. You don't know where City are going to end up but you can't take that performance away from Enzo Maresca and his players.
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The big question many supporters want answered is what will happen to Manchester City should their appeal fail?
BBC Sport's senior football correspondent Sami Mokbel considers this in the video below.
Sami discusses the "emerging view" of Premier League "executives, boardrooms and directors" that possible punishments should include historic sanctions, which would apply to the seasons when the financial breaches took place, and future sanctions, designed to restrict their ability to compete for future honours.
These sanctions could see:
What punishments could actually be on the table for Man City? Sami Mokbel explains...
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City fan here replying to earlier post about response to how I would feel if other clubs had cheated - Quick question, how do we know they didn’t? The only reason City’s misdemeanours were brought to light were through an illegal hack. No auditor or PL scrutiny detected it.
Brian, Manchester
City fan since 95. For me, the club should be made an example of. As much as they are my club, they cheated on a big scale over many years. Something like relegation to League 2 wouldn't be unfair in my opinion. Set a precedent or it keeps happening.
Jon, Devon
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Jamie Carragher
Former Liverpool defender on Sky Sports
Some of the greatest players we’ve ever seen in this country, their careers are going to be looked at with an asterisk
I keep hearing respect the process, we’ve had the process, we’ve respected it for three years...we never mentioned 115 charges when they were winning in the league or cups, because we were respecting the process. The process has happened.
Manchester City are bigger than these owners. Manchester City have been there 100 years before and they’ll be there 100 years after. Amazing supporters, great players before, great players after.
They’re going to do everything they can to get off on it, understandably so, but this could go on for years and I think it’s not just going to ruin Manchester City while this ownership is involved, it’ll ruin the game.
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The way the City players/staff have been speaking recently is disgraceful. Total lack of respect for the league. Nothing like a good bit of cheating to instigate team bonding and togetherness. Maybe all us other clubs should be at it as well? I mean, why not? Nothing happens anyway.
Matthew, Sunderland
Presumably there is a scenario where teams no longer try against Manchester City and send out weakened teams, as nobody expects the results to matter at the end of the season. City romp away with the league, but matches against them become irrelevant.
Michael, Tiverton
People wanting to absolve the City players of any blame when there's a dozen or so of them taking home half a million a week, knowing that the club is NOT a global institution. They HAD to have an inkling something was rotten there?
Mark, Yorkshire
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Roy Keane
Former Manchester United captain on Sky Sports
If I was a player now and there were stories coming out about what we were doing at Man United and if there was cheating, I’d be disgusted.
I wouldn’t feel I’d earned a league title if I thought there was something dodgy going on in the background, absolutely not.
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Kieran Maguire on potential sanctions for Man City
As you can imagine, should Manchester City's appeal fail, then exactly what sanctions the club could face and when and how these sanctions might be administered is not straight forward.
Football finance expert Kieran Maguire said that this would be a "two-stage process".
It will start with a decision on any possible points deduction and fines, which City could also appeal against.
One possible conclusion to this process could include a sanctioning agreement between the Premier League and City, as happened in a recent case involving Chelsea.
This could then by followed by compensation claims from clubs directly affected by City's breaches of the Premier League's financial rules.
These claims could come from sides that finished runners-up to City in the Premier League and domestic competitions, as well as those that missed out on qualification for European competitions or were relegated between 2009-10 and 2017-18, when the breaches took place.
Dale Johnson, BBC Sport's football issues correspondent, described this as "an extremely messy situation for the Premier League".
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Micah Richards
Former Man City defender on Sky Sports
The fact that Man City talked about this evidence and if they have this evidence, I want to see it, make it easier for the fans because they’re the last to know about everything.
Us as players, what could we possibly do? We go out on the pitch, we give 100%. I’ve literally got one knee [from] giving 100% for Manchester City Football Club. That’s how much I love this club.
If they lose the appeal, I’ll be first to say they should be punished.
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This rubbish about the players winning it on the pitch - Lance Armstrong won his Tours on the bike. He still cheated, just like City have. The former players, fans and club themselves are totally unrepentant, even revelling in it. The whole lot of them deserve the harshest punishment available.
James, Liverpool
It would be interesting to hear City fans honest opinion on what punishment they would expect if United or Liverpool or Arsenal had breached same rules and robbed City of numerous titles. Any honest City fan cares to respond?
Aravind, Derby
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Image source, Getty ImagesManchester City midfielder, Elliot Anderson spoke after the win at Anfield: “We’re all so together, more together than ever and I think we have to be like that.
“We’ve got to stick together. I think it really brings us together. It gives you that determination to come out here, everyone is against you, and turn them over, which we did.
“Second half we showed a lot more quality in the first half.
“It was very noisy in the first half but we really managed to quieten them in the second half, carried out the plan better and scored three really good goals.
“We have got some outstanding players and an outstanding coach so we’re only going to get better and I look forward to that.
“I really enjoy the atmosphere here, I enjoy winning here as well. It’s a lucky place to play."
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Sam Lee
The Athletic Manchester City correspondent on BBC Radio 5 Live
How can the punishment seem so serious, the judgement seem so serious, the eight-time use of the word 'sham', the £900m headline figure, the witnesses not being believed - how can that be on one side and the other side you've got this genuine conviction from City that they're going to be fine and the appeal will genuinely be different?
Even though it's an independent commission and it's the same burden of proof, it's going to be a slightly different body with three different people and they're apparently going to come to a different conclusion. City genuinely believe that to be the case.
City are obviously in a very serious position but that genuine conviction they've got does make me think it is possible - I've been covering City long enough to be covering them during their ban in the Champions League in February 2020 and it was the same fallout and the same reaction and they took it to Court of Arbitration for Sport and got it overturned.
I know it's different circumstances and I know the investigation was more thorough from the Premier League and the verdict is damming and City did present all of their evidence already, but I wouldn't fully rule it out.
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Daniel Austin
BBC Sport reporter
Manchester City's appeal will be heard in private by a new, three-person independent commission panel, each with an expert background in law.
One section of the Premier League regulations says that an appeal hearing should conclude within 12 weeks of it being heard, and a decision communicated within 30 days of that.
Twelve weeks from 1 October – when City say they lodged the appeal – would be 24 December.
But this timeframe can also be disapplied if deemed necessary, meaning it remains uncertain how long the process will actually take.
The relevant regulation was only added to the rule book this summer.
Previous precedent suggests that sanctions against City will only be imposed after a decision on the appeal, though this is not guaranteed.
There could therefore also be a second appeal later down the line, against any sanctions imposed on the club.
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Brilliant win yesterday despite the magnificent and famous Anfield atmosphere.
John, Cheshire
Probably won't be a popular opinion but booing the current City players for something they didn't do is unfair. The owners and management are the ones that should be facing the wrath. All these players can do is what they did yesterday, play well and win.
Ian, Lincoln
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Daniel Austin
BBC Sport reporter
Manchester City will claim as part of their appeal that key sponsorship deals were funded by the Abu Dhabi government, rather than the club's owners.
Owners Abu Dhabi United Group (ADUG) - a private investment company belonging to United Arab Emirates vice-president and deputy prime minister Sheikh Mansour - are said to have topped up the value of commercial deals as part of a "disguised funding scheme" to the scale of £830.69m.
This, it was argued, enabled the club to appear to comply with Premier League and Uefa financial rules.
Premier League rules allow state-owned bodies to sponsor clubs.
Etihad Airways has said it is considering legal action against the Premier League, claiming the release of the commission findings had "damaging implications…despite the airline not being named in the redacted published findings".
The UAE's state-owned national airline said it "categorically rejects any finding, conclusion or implication that suggests the airline has ever been involved in improper commercial arrangements".
Etihad is owned by sovereign wealth fund L'Imad which is chaired by the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, the son of the UAE president.
