Manchester City fans made their feelings known to UEFA during their Premier League clash with West Ham.
City were on Friday given a two-season ban from European football and fined 30million euros (£24.9million) for breaching financial regulations.
The reigning Premier League champions, who have referred the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, have also been accused of not cooperating with the process.
Pep Guardiola’s men were in action for the first time since the shock news emerged last week, when they hosted West Ham in their rearranged top-flight fixture on Wednesday night.
And during the clash at the Etihad, City fans were heard signing: “We’ll see you in court, we’ll see you in court – F*** off UEFA, we’ll see you in court!”
The club’s fans also displayed several anti-UEFA banners in the stands.
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Manchester City chief executive Ferran Soriano, meanwhile, has denied claims that the Premier League champions broke the rules over Financial Fair Play regulations.
“These allegations are simply not true,” Sorriano said in a video interview on the club’s website.
“The owner has not put money in this club that has not been properly declared.
“We are a sustainable football club, we are profitable, we don’t have debt, our accounts have been scrutinised many times, by auditors, by regulators, by investors and this is perfectly clear.”
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And the City chief, who vowed to fight the verdict of a UEFA investigation into accounts submitted by the club between 2012 and 2016, also insisted the club have cooperated with the process.
Sorriano added: “We delivered a long list of documents and support that we believe is irrefutable evidence that the claims are not true and it was hard because we did this in the context of information being leaked to the media in the context of feeling that every step of the way, every engagement we had, we felt that we were considered guilty before anything was even discussed.
“But at the end, this is an internal process that has been initiated and then prosecuted and then judged by this FFP chamber at UEFA.”
