Aleksandar Ceferin understands the growing concern over how long the Manchester City case is dragging on. Photo: Ziggy Bucher
UEFA's disciplinary authorities were “right”. Manchester City's president has said Manchester City broke financial fair play rules when they kicked the club out of the Champions League.
In his first public comments on the saga since the Premier The league announced the date Aleksandar Ceferin, set to face a hearing on 115 charges against the treble winners under his own rules, also said he understood the growing concern about how long the case was dragging on.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Telegraph Sport, Čeferin refused to answer a question about whether City, which denies any wrongdoing, should be stripped of their titles if found guilty by an independent panel.
But he was asked whether such a verdict would be justified by a similar verdict from UEFA , Club. The financial watchdog, four years ago and defending its case at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Cas), responded: “We know we were right. We wouldn't have made the decision if we didn't think we were right.”
Čeferin stressed that he respects Cas's decision, which overturned City's two-year European ban after it ruled that some of the evidence against them was exhausted in time. and that other allegations remained unproven and they were fined €10 million (£8.6 million) for refusing to cooperate with investigators.
“As a trial lawyer with 25 years experience, I know that sometimes you can win the case. the case when you are sure that you will lose,” added Čeferin. “And sometimes you lose a case when you are sure… In a serious democracy you just need to respect the court’s decision.
“I don’t want to talk about the case in England. But I believe that the decision of our independent body was correct. I did not make this decision.”
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