MANCHESTER UNITED have hit out at UEFA after being fined £260,000 for a ‘minor’ breach of FFP rules.
The club believe the European governing body have shown no flexibility for accounting over the Covid period when the club lost £240million, more than any other Premier League club.
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A club statement read: “While disappointed by the outcome, Manchester United accepts this fine for what UEFA acknowledges to be a minor technical breach of its previous Financial Fair Play rules.
“This reflected a change in the way that Uefa adjusted for COVID-19 losses during the 2022 reporting period, which allowed us to recognise only €15m of the €281m of revenues lost due to the pandemic within the FFP calculation.
“Post pandemic, the clubs’ revenues have recovered strongly and are forecast to reach a record level in the current financial year.
“The club continues to support the enforcement of rules to promote financial fair play and sustainability across domestic and European football.”
The Red Devils believe they have been tied up in red tape which proved almost impossible to unravel.
The club have told UEFA that they were unable to adjust for the loss in their break-even calculations for 2022 due to a change in UEFA’s own rules of how Covid financial issues were handled.
United are angry that no leeway was given over what was a ‘unqiue set of circumstances’.
The fine does not impact what the club are able to spend this summer which has been restricted to £120million becaue of FFP rules.
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United were not the only club to be fined for the deficits as Turkish club Konyaspor and Cypriot outfit Apoel were also handed £85k fines.
LaLiga giants Barcelona were also fined £430k for ” wrongly reporting, in the financial year 2022, profits on disposal of intangible assets (other than player transfers) which are not a relevant income under the regulations.”
United have already been active in the transfer market having completed the signing of Mason Mount.
The England International cost the Old Trafford outfit £60million to sign from Chelsea.
The club are also hopeful of signing Inter Milan goalkeeper Andre Onana as a replacement for David De Gea.
The Cameroonian has already said his farewells ahead of his potential move to Old Trafford for £47m.
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