La Liga chief demands 'strictest punishment' for Man City over 115 Premier League charges

La Liga president Javier Tebas has demanded that Manchester City face the strictest punishment available under Premier League regulations, following reports that the club has been found guilty on the majority of the 115 financial charges brought against them.

Speaking at the FIFPRO Performance Summit in London, Tebas — a long-standing critic of what he calls “financial doping” — said the scale and duration of the alleged rule-breaking demanded an exemplary response. “I don’t know the exact rules, but I believe it should be the strictest punishment in the Premier League regulations regarding this matter,” he said. “It should be a punishment intended to set an example. This isn’t a matter of a father and his children — it is a punishment to ensure rules are followed.”

No official verdict has been released by the Premier League, and City continue to maintain their innocence, stating they will appeal any guilty finding. The charges relate to alleged breaches of financial rules spanning more than a decade.

Tebas was unequivocal about the seriousness of the timeline involved. “Violating the rules for over 10 years — no matter how minor the infractions — is a very serious matter. Therefore it has to be a severe punishment for the non-compliance. Not just to set an example, but because the rules were broken.”

The La Liga chief also used the occasion to revisit City’s 2020 UEFA ban, which was overturned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport. CAS cleared City of “disguising equity funds as sponsorship contributions” and ruled that many of UEFA’s allegations “were either not established or time-barred”, also reducing a €30 million fine to €10 million.

Tebas argued that ruling now deserves fresh scrutiny. “In my opinion, the CAS decisions should be re-examined, specifically when they cleared City, or rather lifted the sanction UEFA had imposed, because those sanctions were lifted in a very questionable manner,” he said. “And now it has been proven that UEFA was right regarding the sanctions against Manchester City.”

City’s case remains one of the most consequential in English football history, with the outcome of any appeal likely to shape how top-flight clubs are regulated for years to come.