PEP Guardiola has accused Manchester City's Premier League rivals of conspiring against them after they were charged with more than 100 breaches of Financial Fair Play regulations.
Guardiola was in a feisty mood yesterday as he defended every aspect of the club's position regarding the dozens of allegations against them, insisting that he was fully committed at the Etihad and believed everything he had been told by the club.
The City manager also indicated that the club were more confident of being cleared than they were at the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which ruled in their favour.
As much as the decision was made by the Premier League, the City boss was adamant that its member clubs were behind the decision.
Nine clubs attempted to make sure the Blues were banned from the Champions League while their appeal was heard, and Guardiola believes that more of the same behaviour is at play.
"I think the Premier League, supported by 19 teams to put it out for the Premier League, will have good lawyers too to defend their position like we're
going to defend our position. I would have loved to wait and see and time will dictate what's going to happen," he said.
"Just in case we are not innocent we will accept what the judge, the Premier League decides, but what happens if in the same situation that UEFA happened we are innocent, what happens to restore or pay back our damage? "Because the damage is now for one decade, eight, nine, 10.
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