How much did Man City's rule breaking cost your team? — SkimNews
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- BBC Sport calculated the aggregate financial cost of Manchester City's rule-breaking on rival clubs at £844m, broken down as £188.2m in lost Premier League placing money, £349.7m in relegation costs, £217.8m in missed Champions League earnings, and £88.3m from cups and Europa League.
- Manchester City themselves earned £1.17bn in prize money across the 2009-2018 period under scrutiny, made up of £812.3m from the Premier League, £363.4m from the Champions League, £900k from the 2011 FA Cup, and £300k from three EFL Cup wins.
- Tottenham Hotspur are the single most-impacted club at a £119.9m net loss, after finishing one place outside the Champions League in four of the eight seasons City qualified; former manager Mauricio Pochettino said: "We have lived through a period of deception" and "no type of punishment will make it possible to repair what was done."
- Liverpool lost an estimated £52.3m, anchored by the 2015-16 EFL Cup final penalty defeat to City that diverted the Europa League spot to West Ham; the analysis benchmarks the gap against Manchester United's £37.8m take from winning the 2016-17 Europa League.
- Hull City rank second in overall impact at £99m — £93.78m from two relegations plus £5.2m in league placing money — while Swansea (£63.1m) and Newcastle (£60.4m) follow from single relegations cushioned by parachute payments.
- Everton were denied European football five times for a combined £66.4m impact to become the third-most-hit club, and Chelsea lost £39.8m from finishing fifth in 2017-18 when City earned £79.2m reaching the Champions League quarter-finals.
- Manchester City continue to deny any wrongdoing and have appealed against the guilty verdict on charges that they inflated sponsorship income by £830m plus £90m in expenses via what the Premier League's independent commission called a "disguised funding scheme."
Why it matters: BBC's club-by-club ledger translates the abstract guilty verdict into hard per-club sums — Tottenham's £119.9m, Hull City's £99m, Everton's £66.4m — showing that every one of the 35 top-flight clubs active between 2009 and 2018 can claim some financial shortfall, which pressures the Premier League on compensation even before City's appeal is resolved.
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