{"id":116925,"date":"2019-05-14T10:21:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T09:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=116925"},"modified":"2019-05-14T10:24:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T09:24:29","slug":"champions-league-manchester-city-facing-one-year-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=116925","title":{"rendered":"Champions League: Manchester City facing one-year ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Champions-League-Manchester-City-facing-one-year-ban.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Manchester City could face a one-season ban from the Champions League, if found guilty of financial irregularities, the New York Times reports.<\/p>\n<p>City have been under investigation by a regulatory committee, over a series of leaks into their financial conduct, published in German outlet Der Spiegel.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from UEFA\u2019s financial control board met two weeks ago in Switzerland to finalise their findings, with a submission to be filed possibly as soon as this week.<\/p>\n<p>And it is understood that the body, led by the former Prime Minister of Belgium Yves Leterme, will push for at least a one-season ban from the Champions League.<\/p>\n<p>It would come as a huge blow to City and their mega-rich owners, after Pep Guardiola\u2019s men celebrated a fourth Premier League title in eight seasons on Sunday.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City could face a one-season ban from the Champions League, if found guilty of financial irregularities, the New York Times reports. City have been under investigation by a regulatory committee, over a series of leaks into their financial conduct, published in German outlet Der Spiegel. Officials from UEFA\u2019s financial control board met two weeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[4368],"class_list":["post-116925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-manchester-city"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}