Friday 9 October 2026 14:58, UK Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Michael Carrick shares his thoughts after Man City were found guilty of all charges related to serious breaches of Premier League financial rules. City deny all charges and have lodged an appeal An independent commission found City guilty of serious breaches of financial rules over a nine-season period between 2009/10 and 2017/18, including arranging ‘sham’ commercial agreements to inflate revenues and reduce costs. The commission also upheld the majority of charges relating to the club’s failure to co-operate with the Premier League’s investigation. City deny wrongdoing and have appealed against the findings, with the question of any potential punishment still to be decided.
Transfer Centre LIVE! | Man Utd news & transfers🔴Man Utd fixtures & scores | FREE Man Utd highlights▶️Got Sky? Watch Premier League games LIVE on your phone📱Not got Sky? Latest Sky Sports deals or stream PL games with no contract📺Asked about the case, Carrick said: “I’ve got my own questions about it. It’s affected me personally in different ways over a period of time.
“But as the case is going now, I don’t know where that stands and how it’s going to end up. So we’ll just have to wait and see. “What I will say, the sooner it gets sorted, I think for everyone’s benefit, is essential.”The former Manchester United midfielder also reflected on the impact the case could have on the history of the Premier League, having experienced title races in which United finished behind City’s teams.However, Carrick insisted the emotions attached to competing for trophies could never be erased, regardless of what happens next. Image: Carrick was part of the Manchester United team that lost the league to Manchester City on the final day in 2012 “Regardless of anything, a medal anyway, in any sport in history, I think later on you get the medal and it’s proved at different times,” he said.”It’s the moment that you strive for, to win and achieve in that moment.”So the medal here or there, not getting blown away, but that doesn’t bring the feeling of whether you initially win or you don’t win.
That’s essentially what we’re all in for.”Carrick added that the uncertainty surrounding the case made a speedy conclusion particularly important, given the potential implications for clubs across the league.”Speed is essential for everyone to be clear, to be able to deal with it, to be able to move on, whatever happens,” he said.”It’s a unique situation to be in at this level, with such a huge impact in so many ways. So we all need to know what’s going to happen.”What Premier League managers have said about the Man City verdict Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Premier League managers including Frank Lampard, Marco Rose and Daniel Farke have their say on the Man City situation Bournemouth boss Marco Rose:”I’m not this kind of guy who blames someone with not enough information. Of course, I hear everything, I read everything, but I do not have all the information. I trust in the guys who are involved in these kinds of things and situations, and then we will see what happens.
I’m a football coach, not a politician, and I love to be a football coach, and it should stay like this.”Brighton boss Fabian Hurzeler:”I can’t control anything from that. The only thing I can really focus on is our preparation, how we are doing, and therefore it is just a distraction, that is not in our hands. Hopefully it will be dealt with but I have enough topics to mention. But let’s see how it goes.
I heard there are still some ongoing processes so it is really difficult to say anything now.”Coventry boss Frank Lampard: “We’ve all seen the news. Obviously big news. Man City are appealing the situation, so what can you say when an appeal is going on? I’m not inside the story, I’m outside it completely.
I played for Man City a long time ago, now for one year, but we’ll wait and see what the result of the appeal is.”Leeds boss Daniel Farke:”It’s not my topic, my topic is football and there are more qualified people to speak about this, so it is not my topic. It is not up to me and I was not involved in the title race in these years. I had different topics to deal with during this time when Manchester City won many titles. I think I just had one home game with them with Norwich, we won by the way, so I can’t complain too much.
It also makes no sense if right now everyone in the world wants to have opinions about this topic, there are more qualified people to talk about it. My topic is Leeds United.”Liverpool boss Andoni Iraola:”I think uncertainty is not good for anyone involved but there is the process ongoing and we have to be patient like everyone else and see what happens at the end. No one knows what’s going to happen. We have to focus on Liverpool and being the best club we can be, the best team we can be.
That’s my challenge. My opinion is not valid because I haven’t spent that time and I haven’t read as much as they’ve [the commission] done.”I think the challenge of the game is so high that I don’t think players think too much outside of this. They are thinking ‘I have to mark this player’ or ‘I have to go and deal with this one’ or ‘I have be at this level because the level of the game is so high’. They will be focused on those things.
Obviously they will have their own opinions but I think they will be fully focused on what happens on the pitch.”Newcastle boss Matthias Jaissle:”I think as a manager of another club I am not able to judge. It’s not my job in my job description to judge on that. There are authorities taking care of it. I think there is a clear process now, which we have followed and, for us, I am speaking on behalf of the whole club, it’s the right approach to focus on what we can influence.”Nottingham Forest boss Oliver Glasner:”It has been 24 hours a day.
It was just City. I said, ‘Ah, OK, this is the only problem in the world right now’. It’s so big here in England, especially. And I wasn’t here when all these things happened or did not happen, I don’t know.
To the appeal, there is no final verdict right now. That’s why I don’t see any point to comment on Man City because I can’t. But let’s say in general, if somebody cheats he needs to get punished. If not, then not.
And of course, we all hope for the integrity of the game, for the integrity of the Premier League, that the final word is spoken soon.”But we also know, and as I spoke earlier, I think there are thousands of pages to read, and I read a book every night, and it takes quite long to read thousands of pages and also then find the final verdict, so it takes a little bit of time. We have to be patient, but yes, it should be soon.”Sunderland boss Regis Le Bris:”There are still ongoing legal proceedings so it’s not for me to comment on that. My position is simple: football has rules, on and off the pitch. You have to respect those rules, when they are broken they should have consequences otherwise it’s not fair.
We want fair competition, we want fair game, fair play, so the relevant authorities have to be relentless otherwise you lose the value of the competition. So we’ll see.”It happened 10 years ago, more or less. We were not here in Sunderland, for example. But it’s about respecting rules so it’s key because if you don’t have fair competition it’s a bit weird, so it’s more or less the feeling we have in the building.” Play Super 6 to win £1m!
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