Manchester Metropolis go into the 2024/25 season with 115 Monetary Honest Play fees hanging over their heads – however one in every of their former stars has insisted that it doesn’t diminish something that the staff have achieved.
Metropolis have received eight Premier League titles in the course of the previous 12 years, and final time period grew to become the primary staff ever to develop into English champions for 4 seasons in succession.
However the membership have been charged a while in the past with 115 alleged breaches of monetary guidelines – their Premier League listening to might happen this autumn, with a possible verdict by the summer season.
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Manchester Metropolis deny the fees and are combating the case arduous, so it’s troublesome to say whether or not they’ll be hit with sanctions, or whether or not they would have an effect on the 2024-25 season.
Former Manchester Metropolis goalkeeper David James believes that, regardless of the consequence, the state of affairs doesn’t overshadow every thing that the staff have achieved in recent times.
David James (Picture credit score: Steven Paston)
“I don’t suppose the gamers or supervisor are responsible of wrongdoing,” he tells FourFourTwo. “You’re taking a look at the very best gamers, taking part in the very best soccer, it doesn’t overshadow what they’ve executed.
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“The gamers haven’t cheated. They’ve been the very best staff within the Premier League for the previous 4 years, they usually deserve it as a result of they play nice soccer.”
James represented Manchester Metropolis between 2004 and 2006, not lengthy after their transfer to the Etihad Stadium, however earlier than their takeover by Thaksin Shinawatra after which Sheikh Mansour.
James infamously performed as a striker (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
Metropolis completed eighth within the desk after Stuart Pearce took over halfway via the 2004-05 marketing campaign, which ended with James famously being performed up entrance within the closing levels of the ultimate recreation of the season at house to Middlesbrough.
Chasing victory, Pearce deployed the 6ft 4in goalkeeper as a goal man within the opposition’s penalty space, however Metropolis weren’t capable of finding the objective they have been in search of, as a 1-1 draw denied them a spot within the UEFA Cup.
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