Pep Guardiola has declared that every side in the Premier League wants Manchester City to lose their fight against 115 alleged rule breaches but insisted his club were innocent ‘until guilt is proven’.
Responding to comments from La Liga president Javier Tebas that most top-flight English clubs want City punished by the independent commission, which opens on Monday, Guardiola said: ‘Maybe he’s right.
‘All the Premier League teams want us to be sanctioned that is for sure. I agree with Tebas for the first time, and hopefully the last. But justice is there in a modern democracy — so wait for the decision.
‘We believe that we have not done anything wrong. We go to an independent panel and we are going to wait. Good.’
The City boss said his players had not discussed the case, which relates to alleged breaches of top-flight financial rules between 2009 and 2018.
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