{
  "id": 10897049,
  "title": "Sham City: verdict on financial breaches is damning and punishment must be severe | Jonathan Wilson",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/sham-city-verdict-on-financial-breaches-is-damning-and-punishment",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-29T20:30:10.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Business",
    "slug": "guardian-business",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/sep/29/manchester-city-financial-breaches-verdict-premier-league"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "How can Manchester City be trusted under these owners after they were found to have devised £900m of ‘sham’ contracts? How bad could it be, really? How serious can a breach of arcane financial regulations be, really? Just how damning can accountancy be? Even after Friday’s revelation that Manchester City had been found guilty of all but one of the charges brought against them by the Premier…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}