Guardian and Life.ru say City guilty on all charges; CBC says almost all of 115; The Independent says more than 100
An independent commission found Manchester City used 'sham' deals worth more than £900m over nine seasons. Four outlets give three different counts of what the club was found guilty of. The club says it is innocent and will appeal.
The finding. An independent commission found City created "sham" contracts to inflate revenue and cut costs by more than £900m, The Guardian and Anadolu Agency report. The Guardian dates the breaches from 2009-10 to 2017-18.
Three counts for one verdict. Four reports say how many charges were proved. They do not agree.
| Outlet | What it says City was found guilty of |
|---|---|
| The Guardian | "all charges" |
| Life.ru | "all charges" (по всем обвинениям) |
| CBC News | "almost all" of 115; headline says "nearly 115" |
| The Independent | "more than 100 charges" |
None of the seven reports gives the exact number proved.
How far each adopts the verdict. The Independent states as fact that the club's reputation "has been shredded". A second Independent report headlines a pundit, Ian Wright, calling it "cheating on an industrial scale". An-Nahar carries only the club's reply: the ruling has "clear material errors" in law, principle and fact and is "unreliable". Anadolu Agency puts the appeal in its headline.
What is not settled. - Whether every charge was proved, or some were not. We do not hold the commission's ruling. - The punishment. CBC says sanctions could range from point deductions to expulsion. No report says what was imposed. - The appeal. City says it will use the routes open to it. No report says when, or to whom.
What this is about. England's top football league has found that one of its richest clubs broke its financial rules for years, and the club says the finding is wrong.
How it got here. In 2008 Manchester City was bought by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of Abu Dhabi's ruling family and a senior official of the United Arab Emirates. Money from Abu Dhabi turned the club into the dominant side in English football. The Premier League has rules on how clubs report income and spending. They are meant to stop an owner putting in money disguised as ordinary business, such as sponsorship.
In 2018 the German magazine Der Spiegel published leaked internal documents that it said showed City disguising owner funding as sponsorship. European football's governing body, UEFA, banned City from its competitions in 2020. The Court of Arbitration for Sport overturned that ban the same year. In February 2023 the Premier League brought its own charges, 115 of them by CBC's count, covering nine seasons. An independent commission heard the case.
The actors. The Premier League runs the competition and also enforces its rules. City disputes that it did so fairly: its statement says it had expected the league's board to act as an independent and impartial regulator. The commission is a panel set up to rule on the league's charges. City's chairman, Khaldoon Al Mubarak, said on 26 September that he was confident of proving the club innocent.
What is at stake. For City: CBC says sanctions could range from major point deductions to expulsion from the league. For the league: whether its rules bind a club whose owner is part of a ruling family. For rival clubs: they competed against a City that the commission says inflated its revenue.
Where it stands. The verdict was announced on 29 September 2026. No report we hold names a penalty. City says it will appeal.
What is being argued about
- How many of the charges were proved: all, almost all, or more than 100
- The commission's finding of 'sham' deals worth more than £900m over nine seasons
- The club's statement that the ruling has 'clear material errors' and is 'unreliable'
- What punishment follows, and the appeal
What was City found guilty of? Four reports, three answersSide by side
| Outlet | Count given | Exact words |
|---|---|---|
| The Guardian | All charges | City were found guilty on all charges |
| Life.ru | All charges | признан виновным по всем обвинениям (found guilty on all charges) |
| CBC News | Almost all of 115 | found guilty of almost all of the unprecedented 115 charges |
| The Independent | More than 100 | found guilty of more than 100 charges of financial wrongdoing |
None of these reports gives the exact number of charges proved. We do not hold the commission's ruling.
Sources
The Guardian
The Guardian
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Manchester City’s ‘sham’ seasons: how they fared and who was in charge
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What we have measured
Actor named Denial in the passive voice, with no one named as the person who dismissed it ×1Actor named names Israel as acting and states the death toll flat, with no source ×1Actor named Ireland named as the side that ended the conference ×1Allegation omitted the police statement is cut with an ellipsis where the other two reports carry the controlling or coercive behaviour allegation ×1
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Life.ru
«Манчестер Сити» признан виновным по всем обвинениям в финансовых нарушениях
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Absence of notice framed as a finding a booking agent not having heard is put in the headline as the news ×1Absence used as rebuttal a booking service's lack of notice is run as a counter-report, sourced anonymously ×1Actor framing The company is the only actor named. The regulator appears only as a law it obeys. ×1Actor label Calls the Ukrainian president the head of a 'regime' ×1
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CBC News
Manchester City guilty of nearly 115 charges of financial wrongdoing, Premier League says in explosive verdict
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What we have measured
Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1
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The Independent
The Independent
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Man City scandal: A by-the-numbers look at how the club was transformed by the Abu Dhabi takeover
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What we have measured
Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1
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The Guardian
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The Guardian
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Manchester City’s ‘sham’ seasons: how they fared and who was in charge
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What we have measured
Actor named Denial in the passive voice, with no one named as the person who dismissed it ×1Actor named names Israel as acting and states the death toll flat, with no source ×1Actor named Ireland named as the side that ended the conference ×1Allegation omitted the police statement is cut with an ellipsis where the other two reports carry the controlling or coercive behaviour allegation ×1
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Life.ru
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Life.ru
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digital ·
«Манчестер Сити» признан виновным по всем обвинениям в финансовых нарушениях
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What we have measured
Absence of notice framed as a finding a booking agent not having heard is put in the headline as the news ×1Absence used as rebuttal a booking service's lack of notice is run as a counter-report, sourced anonymously ×1Actor framing The company is the only actor named. The regulator appears only as a law it obeys. ×1Actor label Calls the Ukrainian president the head of a 'regime' ×1
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CBC News
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CBC News
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Manchester City guilty of nearly 115 charges of financial wrongdoing, Premier League says in explosive verdict
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What we have measured
Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1
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The Independent
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The Independent
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What we have measured
Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1
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What the commission found, and what City saysFacts
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- An independent commission found City created 'sham' contracts to inflate revenue and reduce costs by more than £900m. The Guardian →
- The breaches ran from the 2009-10 season to 2017-18. The Guardian →
- City says the ruling contains clear material errors in law, principle and fact, and will pursue the appeal routes open to it. An-Nahar →
- Sanctions could range from major point deductions to expulsion from the Premier League. CBC News →
Sources
The Guardian
The Guardian
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Manchester City’s ‘sham’ seasons: how they fared and who was in charge
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What we have measured
Actor named Denial in the passive voice, with no one named as the person who dismissed it ×1Actor named names Israel as acting and states the death toll flat, with no source ×1Actor named Ireland named as the side that ended the conference ×1Allegation omitted the police statement is cut with an ellipsis where the other two reports carry the controlling or coercive behaviour allegation ×1
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An-Nahar
An-Nahar
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مانشستر سيتي: نشعر بدهشة وخيبة أمل
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What we have measured
Accused named the accused is named and his age is given ×1Accused named names the accused and gives his age ×1A contested finding relayed with the case still the prime minister's claim carried, with the court proceedings noted in the same sentence ×1Active voice and a toll in the background paragraph, the July strikes get named actors and counted dead — the only counted dead in this story ×1
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CBC News
Manchester City guilty of nearly 115 charges of financial wrongdoing, Premier League says in explosive verdict
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What we have measured
Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1
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The Guardian
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The Guardian
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Manchester City’s ‘sham’ seasons: how they fared and who was in charge
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What we have measured
Actor named Denial in the passive voice, with no one named as the person who dismissed it ×1Actor named names Israel as acting and states the death toll flat, with no source ×1Actor named Ireland named as the side that ended the conference ×1Allegation omitted the police statement is cut with an ellipsis where the other two reports carry the controlling or coercive behaviour allegation ×1
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An-Nahar
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An-Nahar
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مانشستر سيتي: نشعر بدهشة وخيبة أمل
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What we have measured
Accused named the accused is named and his age is given ×1Accused named names the accused and gives his age ×1A contested finding relayed with the case still the prime minister's claim carried, with the court proceedings noted in the same sentence ×1Active voice and a toll in the background paragraph, the July strikes get named actors and counted dead — the only counted dead in this story ×1
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CBC News
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CBC News
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Manchester City guilty of nearly 115 charges of financial wrongdoing, Premier League says in explosive verdict
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What we have measured
Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1
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The bias in this coverageBias
Three counts for one verdict
Two reports say guilty on all charges, one says almost all, and one says more than 100. None of the reports we hold gives the exact number of charges found proven. Readers cannot tell from this reporting which is right.
2 reports saying all charges
1 reports saying almost all
0 reports giving the exact number found proven
The club's reply travels further than the commission's words
Three reports carry the club's denial or its plan to appeal, one of them in the headline. One quotes football pundits. None quotes the commission's findings beyond the word 'sham'.
3 reports carrying the club's denial or appeal
1 reports quoting pundits
Scored without the mastheads. Where the two passes differ, both are kept.
Sources
C
CBC News
Manchester City guilty of nearly 115 charges of financial wrongdoing, Premier League says in explosive verdict
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What we have measured
Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1
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The Guardian
The Guardian
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Manchester City’s ‘sham’ seasons: how they fared and who was in charge
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What we have measured
Actor named Denial in the passive voice, with no one named as the person who dismissed it ×1Actor named names Israel as acting and states the death toll flat, with no source ×1Actor named Ireland named as the side that ended the conference ×1Allegation omitted the police statement is cut with an ellipsis where the other two reports carry the controlling or coercive behaviour allegation ×1
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The Independent
The Independent
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digital · independent
Man City scandal: A by-the-numbers look at how the club was transformed by the Abu Dhabi takeover
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What we have measured
Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1
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The Independent
The Independent
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Ian Wright criticises Man City for ‘cheating on an industrial scale’ and calls for ‘unprecedented punishment’
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What we have measured
Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1
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Anadolu Agency
Anadolu Agency
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state agency · state-controlled
Manchester City found guilty of serious Premier League financial rule breaches, to appeal
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What we have measured
Actor named Names five governments as the ones that suspended flights, and ties it to US sanctions ×1Asserted vs expected the agenda is given as an expectation, not an outcome ×1Assertion vs attribution Credits the continuing investigation to the FDA by name ×1Attributed or stated the adviser's judgement on rates is stated as sight, not as a claim he made ×1
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Life.ru
«Манчестер Сити» признан виновным по всем обвинениям в финансовых нарушениях
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What we have measured
Absence of notice framed as a finding a booking agent not having heard is put in the headline as the news ×1Absence used as rebuttal a booking service's lack of notice is run as a counter-report, sourced anonymously ×1Actor framing The company is the only actor named. The regulator appears only as a law it obeys. ×1Actor label Calls the Ukrainian president the head of a 'regime' ×1
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An-Nahar
An-Nahar
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newspaper · independent
مانشستر سيتي: نشعر بدهشة وخيبة أمل
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What we have measured
Accused named the accused is named and his age is given ×1Accused named names the accused and gives his age ×1A contested finding relayed with the case still the prime minister's claim carried, with the court proceedings noted in the same sentence ×1Active voice and a toll in the background paragraph, the July strikes get named actors and counted dead — the only counted dead in this story ×1
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CBC News
🇨🇦CA ·
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Manchester City guilty of nearly 115 charges of financial wrongdoing, Premier League says in explosive verdict
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What we have measured
Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1
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The Guardian
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The Guardian
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Manchester City’s ‘sham’ seasons: how they fared and who was in charge
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What we have measured
Actor named Denial in the passive voice, with no one named as the person who dismissed it ×1Actor named names Israel as acting and states the death toll flat, with no source ×1Actor named Ireland named as the side that ended the conference ×1Allegation omitted the police statement is cut with an ellipsis where the other two reports carry the controlling or coercive behaviour allegation ×1
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The Independent
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The Independent
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Man City scandal: A by-the-numbers look at how the club was transformed by the Abu Dhabi takeover
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What we have measured
Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1
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The Independent
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The Independent
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Ian Wright criticises Man City for ‘cheating on an industrial scale’ and calls for ‘unprecedented punishment’
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What we have measured
Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1
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Anadolu Agency
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Anadolu Agency
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Manchester City found guilty of serious Premier League financial rule breaches, to appeal
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What we have measured
Actor named Names five governments as the ones that suspended flights, and ties it to US sanctions ×1Asserted vs expected the agenda is given as an expectation, not an outcome ×1Assertion vs attribution Credits the continuing investigation to the FDA by name ×1Attributed or stated the adviser's judgement on rates is stated as sight, not as a claim he made ×1
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Life.ru
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Life.ru
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«Манчестер Сити» признан виновным по всем обвинениям в финансовых нарушениях
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What we have measured
Absence of notice framed as a finding a booking agent not having heard is put in the headline as the news ×1Absence used as rebuttal a booking service's lack of notice is run as a counter-report, sourced anonymously ×1Actor framing The company is the only actor named. The regulator appears only as a law it obeys. ×1Actor label Calls the Ukrainian president the head of a 'regime' ×1
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An-Nahar
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An-Nahar
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مانشستر سيتي: نشعر بدهشة وخيبة أمل
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What we have measured
Accused named the accused is named and his age is given ×1Accused named names the accused and gives his age ×1A contested finding relayed with the case still the prime minister's claim carried, with the court proceedings noted in the same sentence ×1Active voice and a toll in the background paragraph, the July strikes get named actors and counted dead — the only counted dead in this story ×1
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Claims and verdicts
No claims registered.
Who wrote it
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Юрий Лысенко
Life.ru
What the bias passes found in their reporting
Anonymous sourcing
Says the plan rests on unnamed sources cited by another outlet×1
Asserted or attributed
the failure to protect is written as a flat statement first and attributed in the following sentence×1
Assertion order
the causal claim comes first as a statement, and only the end of the sentence attributes it to Trump×1
Assertion order
The sentence opens with the claim stated flat. Trump's name comes only at the end.×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
2 unverified3 true
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Ahmet Salih Alacaci
Anadolu Agency
Anadolu Agency
No independent reading has coded a report under this byline yet.
We do not infer a journalist's views from the outlet that employs them.
From 63 reports we hold under this byline, at
Anadolu Agency. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating.
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Michael Jones
The Independent
The Independent
What the bias passes found in their reporting
Gap named
says no official source has confirmed×1
Hedge in headline
quotation marks around the finding×1
League silence
says outright that the league has not confirmed anything×1
Verdict certainty
framed as an expected verdict, not a delivered one×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
2 unverified1 true
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The Independent. Two independent readings, each made without the masthead, a quote attached to every tag. A record, never a rating.
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المحرر الرياضي
An-Nahar
An-Nahar
What the bias passes found in their reporting
Actor named
Names the seller, a Colombian investment group×1
Caveat carried
Pending regulatory approval is stated, and the completion is attributed to the club's own announcement.×1
Figure given
Gives the club's league position as a number×1
Hedge
Says regulatory approval is still pending×1
Claims we checked that rest on their reporting
1 disputed2 unverified
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Steve Douglas
The Independent · 2 reports on this story
The Independent · 2 reports on this story
What the bias passes found in their reporting
Asserted not attributed
reputational judgement stated as fact×1
Measure chosen
'almost all' of 115 charges; 'unprecedented' is the outlet's own word, not attributed×1
Measure chosen
'more than 100', a third count of the same verdict×1
Measure of the verdict
almost all, with an evaluative adjective×1
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Sachin Nakrani
The Guardian
The Guardian
What the bias passes found in their reporting
Measure chosen
'all charges', which contradicts the 'almost all' above×1
Measure of the verdict
all charges×1
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Absence of notice framed as a finding a booking agent not having heard is put in the headline as the news ×1Absence used as rebuttal a booking service's lack of notice is run as a counter-report, sourced anonymously ×1Actor framing The company is the only actor named. The regulator appears only as a law it obeys. ×1Actor label Calls the Ukrainian president the head of a 'regime' ×1
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«Манчестер Сити» признан виновным по всем обвинениям в финансовых нарушениях
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Absence of notice framed as a finding a booking agent not having heard is put in the headline as the news ×1Absence used as rebuttal a booking service's lack of notice is run as a counter-report, sourced anonymously ×1Actor framing The company is the only actor named. The regulator appears only as a law it obeys. ×1Actor label Calls the Ukrainian president the head of a 'regime' ×1
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— Says 'all charges' across nine seasons, citing the league's official announcement.
Комиссия установила, что с сезона-2009/10 по 2017/18 клуб использовал фиктивные коммерческие соглашения, которые искажали реальные договорённости со спонсорами. По выводам расследования, эта схема позволяла искусственно увеличивать доходы и одновременно занижать расходы «Сити». В Премьер-лиге заявили, что подобные механизмы исказили финансовые показатели клуба более чем на £900 млн. Кроме того, комиссия пришла к выводу, что «Манчестер Сити» подавал недостоверную отчётность и скрывал реальное положение своих финансов от аудиторов и футбольных регуляторов. Также было установлено существенное пре
Measure of the verdict: all charges — “признан виновным по всем обвинениям”
Measure chosen: 'all charges', matching the season-by-season account — “признан виновным по всем обвинениям”
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Anadolu Agency
State / loyalist
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Anadolu Agency
🇹🇷TR ·
state agency · state-controlled
Manchester City found guilty of serious Premier League financial rule breaches, to appeal
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Actor named Names five governments as the ones that suspended flights, and ties it to US sanctions ×1Asserted vs expected the agenda is given as an expectation, not an outcome ×1Assertion vs attribution Credits the continuing investigation to the FDA by name ×1Attributed or stated the adviser's judgement on rates is stated as sight, not as a claim he made ×1
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— state-controlledPuts the appeal in the headline beside the £900m 'sham' deals finding.
EDITION Türkçe English BHSC Pусский Français العربية Kurdî کوردی Shqip فارسی македонски Bahasa Indonesia Español US-Iran war Hormuz crisis Russia-Ukraine war Sports Manchester City found guilty of serious Premier League financial rule breaches, to appeal Independent commission finds club used ‘sham’ deals to inflate revenues, reduce costs by more than £900M Ahmet Salih Alacaci 29 September 2026•Update: 29 September 2026 WASHINGTON Manchester City were found guilty of serious breaches of Premier League financial rules during a nine-season period, with the club announcing it would appeal the lan
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The Independent
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The Independent
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digital · independent
Ian Wright criticises Man City for ‘cheating on an industrial scale’ and calls for ‘unprecedented punishment’
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Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1
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— independentHeadlines Ian Wright's 'cheating on an industrial scale'; Roy Keane calls the news bittersweet for the league.
Sport Football Ian Wright criticises Man City for ‘cheating on an industrial scale’ and calls for ‘unprecedented punishment’ Fellow football pundit Roy Keane called the news of Man City breaking the Premier League financial rules as bittersweet due to the damage it will do to the league Michael Jones Tuesday 29 September 2026 19:32 BST Bookmark Comments Go to comments Bookmark popover Removed from bookmarks Close popover open image in gallery Ian Wright called for Manchester City to face an ‘unprecedented punishment’ after financial breaches verdict (Getty) Become an Independent member to book
Voice quoted: a pundit's charge leads the headline, in the pundit's own words — “cheating on an industrial scale”
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An-Nahar
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An-Nahar
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مانشستر سيتي: نشعر بدهشة وخيبة أمل
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Accused named the accused is named and his age is given ×1Accused named names the accused and gives his age ×1A contested finding relayed with the case still the prime minister's claim carried, with the court proceedings noted in the same sentence ×1Active voice and a toll in the background paragraph, the July strikes get named actors and counted dead — the only counted dead in this story ×1
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— independentCarries the club's full reply: innocent, 'clear material errors', an appeal, and doubts about the league's impartiality.
أعرب نادي مانشستر سيتي عن خيبة أمله ودهشته من بيان رابطة الدوري الإنكليزي الممتاز لكرة القدم بإدانته بارتكاب مخالفات للقواعد المالية.وأكد مانشستر سيتي أنه بريء من الاتهامات التي وجهتها إليه رابطة الدوري الإنكليزي الممتاز، وأن هناك مجموعة شاملة من الأدلة القاطعة التي تدعم كل مواقفه المتعلقة بهذه القضية.وتابع: بناءً على ذلك، سيواصل النادي تحركه بلا هوادة، وسيبادر، عند الضرورة، إلى اتخاذ الإجراءات المناسبة كافة أمام الجهات التنظيمية والقانونية المختصة.مانشستر سيتي يؤكد وجود أخطاء جوهريةوأضاف النادي: لا تزال إجراءات الدوري الإنكليزي الممتاز جارية، مع بقاء عناصر مهمة منها من دون استكمال.وتابع: سيسل
Whose voice: the report is built entirely from the club's denial — “وأكد مانشستر سيتي أنه بريء من الاتهامات التي وجهتها إليه رابطة الدوري الإنكليزي الممتاز”
Voice quoted: the club's denial and plan to appeal fill the whole report; the league's findings are not set out — “وأكد مانشستر سيتي أنه بريء من الاتهامات التي وجهتها إليه رابطة الدوري الإنكليزي الممتاز”
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The Independent
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The Independent
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Man City scandal: A by-the-numbers look at how the club was transformed by the Abu Dhabi takeover
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Accused party response Russia's side is reported as no comment. ×1A company statement about itself, taken as a "reveals" rather than "says", for a company's account of its own product ×1A count stated flat four crimes is given as a settled number in the headline, with no court, charge or jurisdiction attached ×1Actor named No actor named for the cut-short or for the clashes ×1
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— independentSays 'more than 100 charges' and states that the club's reputation 'has been shredded'.
News Man City scandal: A by-the-numbers look at how the club was transformed by the Abu Dhabi takeover The reputation of Manchester City and its Abu Dhabi ownership has been shredded after the club was found guilty of more than 100 charges of financial wrongdoing in one of the biggest scandals in English soccer history Steve Douglas Tuesday 29 September 2026 19:19 BST Bookmark Bookmark popover Removed from bookmarks Close popover Man City scandal: A by-the-numbers look at how the club was transformed by the Abu Dhabi takeover Show all 5 Become an Independent member to bookmark this article Wan
Measure of the verdict: more than 100 — “found guilty of more than 100 charges of financial wrongdoing”
Asserted not attributed: reputational judgement stated as fact — “The reputation of Manchester City and its Abu Dhabi ownership has been shredded”
Measure chosen: 'more than 100', a third count of the same verdict — “found guilty of more than 100 charges of financial wrongdoing”
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C
CBC News
Manchester City guilty of nearly 115 charges of financial wrongdoing, Premier League says in explosive verdict
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Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1
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Centre-left
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CBC News
🇨🇦CA ·
public broadcaster · public-service
Manchester City guilty of nearly 115 charges of financial wrongdoing, Premier League says in explosive verdict
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Asserted vs attributed the measure is attributed to the three governments; the territory is called occupied in the outlet's own voice ×1Attribution kept in the headline the sourcing travels with the claim into the headline ×1Figure rounded in the headline more than 600 in the headline; the body sources it to a flight-tracking site ×1How the sourcing is hedged the claim is hedged to an unnamed newspaper in both headline and body; the reporting is not held by this report ×1
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— public-serviceThe only report to give a total, 115, and to say City was guilty of 'almost all' of them rather than all.
Manchester City has been found guilty of almost all of the unprecedented 115 charges of financial wrongdoing it faced, the Premier League confirmed on Tuesday, in one of the biggest scandals in English soccer history.
Measure of the verdict: almost all, with an evaluative adjective — “found guilty of almost all of the unprecedented 115 charges of financial wrongdoing it faced”
Measure chosen: 'almost all' of 115 charges; 'unprecedented' is the outlet's own word, not attributed — “Manchester City has been found guilty of almost all of the unprecedented 115 charges of financial wrongdoing it faced”
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The Guardian
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Manchester City’s ‘sham’ seasons: how they fared and who was in charge
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Actor named Denial in the passive voice, with no one named as the person who dismissed it ×1Actor named names Israel as acting and states the death toll flat, with no source ×1Actor named Ireland named as the side that ended the conference ×1Allegation omitted the police statement is cut with an ellipsis where the other two reports carry the controlling or coercive behaviour allegation ×1
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— independentSays 'all charges' and dates the breaches from 2009-10 to 2017-18.
Manchester City breached Premier League financial rules by creating “sham” contracts to help inflate revenue and reduce costs by more than £900m over a nine-year period, an independent commission found. The club say they are innocent of the accusations.
Measure of the verdict: all charges — “City were found guilty on all charges”
Measure chosen: 'all charges', which contradicts the 'almost all' above — “City were found guilty on all charges”
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