Pep Guardiola believes that Nottingham Forest, along with 18 fellow Premier League clubs, are pushing for Manchester City to be punished by the Premier League, after it was alleged the club breached over 100 financial regulations. Asked if he felt other clubs had been driving the matter,
Pep Guardiola said: “Of course – it is the Premier League. I don’t know why. You have to ask the CEOs, Daniel Levy, this kind of people. Nine teams – Burnley, Wolves, Leicester, Newcastle, Spurs, Arsenal, (Manchester) United, Liverpool, Chelsea – (wrote a letter wanting us) out of the Champions League, that they wanted that position. You accuse us – we should be out, but between those nine teams before and the 19 teams now, between their word and the word of my people, I’m sorry but I rely on the words of my people. It’s not an unprecedented story, it’s the second time. We lived that before, two or three years ago.”
