Man City looks to make peace with UEFA after court battle
The HinduManchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak said his club wants to develop a “constructive relationship” with European football's governing body UEFA after the end of their bitter legal battle over financial rules. UEFA had banned City from European competitions for two years after ruling it had breached Financial Fair Play regulations but City won an appeal last month to have that verdict and sanction overturned. City had issued strong condemnations of the investigation but in an interview with the club's website on Monday, Khaldoon struck a different tone when focusing on UEFA's Champions League, where Pep Guardiola's side were knocked out in the quarter-finals by Olympique Lyonnais. How I can help this club compete in this competition and win it and how to have a constructive relationship with UEFA, I think its the only way to go.” City, one of the biggest spenders in European soccer, have already been busy in the transfer market, bringing in defender Nathan Ake from Bournemouth for a reported 40 million pounds and 20-year-old Spanish winger Ferran Torres from Valencia in a deal reportedly worth some 20 million pounds.