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Man City found guilty of HUGE financial 'sham' as Premier League confirm verdict in blistering statement: Club cooked their books by £900m - and now could be RELEGATED

MIKE KEEGAN: In a damning 40-page verdict City artificially inflated sponsorship agreements and pumped money into the club from its Abu Dhabi owners via disguised payments

— Daily Mail Football, publisher's words · Read the original ↗

22 outlets8 languages10 countriesUpdated

Who broke it

The Anfield Wrap

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Our read

Corroborated (3)

3 of 4 outlets each added at least one detail no earlier report had; the other 1 repeat it. That is independence, not agreement: two of them can still contradict each other.

Judged on the 4 outlets in our latest edition; the timeline keeps all 22 we have seen.

Coverage timeline

22 outlets · first-seen order
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    ArseblogEN · GBOwn reporting

    A £900m bombshell … and the rest

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    TRT Spor — FutbolTR · TRRepeats

    900 milyon sterlini aşan usulsüz işlem

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    BBC Sport — FootballEN · GBOwn reporting

    Richards 'devastated' by Man City guilty verdicts

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First seen is our own clock across 245+ feeds; it is not a guarantee of who published first. Each time is the earlier of the publisher's own timestamp and our first sighting. Headlines and summaries are the publishers' own words, linked to the original. How we work out who broke it.