Manchester City bend UEFA Financial Fair Play rules by naming just one 'club-trained' player in their squad... three fewer than Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool
- Manchester City have been allowed only one club-trained player in their Champions League squad for the coming season
- This is three fewer than Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool
- A UEFA Financial Fair Play ruling meant their squad was reduced from 25 to 21 but the governing body has now compensated for this
- Dedryck Boyata qualifies as City's club-trained player
- City travel to Bayern Munich for their first group match on Wednesday
Manchester
City have been allowed to name only one club-trained player in their
squad for the opening stages of this season's Champions League - three
less than Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool.
City,
despite having failed UEFA's FFP ruling which meant their squad had to
be reduced from 25 to 21 for the tournament, have been allowed to reduce
their non-overseas quota to five to compensate for the reduction,
according to The
Clubs
in the Champions League are meant to have at least four 'club-trained'
and four 'association-trained' players in their 25-man squads, but UEFA
have seemingly accommodated City's situation.
Manuel Pellegrini
has been handed a boost ahead of Manchester City's return to the
Champions League next week after UEFA allowed their squad's non-overseas
quota to be reduced from 25 to 21 for the tournament
Champions League football returns to
the Etihad Stadium when City host Roma on September 30. They open their
group stage campaign against Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena on
Wednesday
Of
City's five non-overseas quota, Dedryck Boyata is the only club-trained
player, with Joe Hart, James Milner, Gael Clichy and Frank Lampard
making up the rest as association-trained players.
Boyata,
a Belgian-born midfielder signed as a teenager from Brussels, has made
just 11 Premier League appearances for City since joining in 2009. He
was given a new contract in May to keep him at the club until 2016.
Daniel
Geey, a football law specialist, told the Independent: 'UEFA have
effectively rewritten their home-grown player rule. There is nothing in
Uefa or FFP regulations about the home-grown rule changing.'
Dedryck Boyata, who has made just 11
Premier League appearances for City since joining in 2009, qualifies as
the club-trained player in the Champions League squad for this season
James Milner, seen here scoring for
City in their win over Bayern last season, counts as an
association-trained player under the Financial Fair Player regulations
It
is thought that players union Fifpro - with full support of City -
started making overtures to Uefa that they would potentially take legal
action over theoretical restriction of trade. Uefa eventually relaxed
the restriction and allowed City to have five non-overseas players,
meaning 16 foreign players rather than the predicted 13.
The
likes of Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea may argue that Uefa have let
City off the hook. If Champions League squad was going to be shrunk from
25 to 21, this would assume proportionally that eight home-grown
players should become seven, not five.
City believe they have fully complied with Uefa's rules with regards to the composition of their Champions League squad.
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