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City denies wrongdoing, including that it overstated sponsorship deals linked to its Abu Dhabi ownership and disguised the source of other revenue. read more

Barca president Josep Maria Bartomeu has “thanked” UEFA for banning City from the Champions League and Europa League for two years, a shock sentence handed out on Friday which the Premier League champions plan to appeal. read more

Tottenham, without injured strikers Harry Kane and Son Heung-min, were largely outplayed and will need the sort of heroics they produced at Manchester City and Ajax Amsterdam last season to keep their European quest alive. read more

Last year, Tottenham and Ajax went on a dream run and upset a lot of heavyweights. Ajax overcame defending champions Real Madrid in the Round of 16 while upsetting Cristiano Ronaldo’s Juventus in the quarters. read more

Here are five world-class stars who’ve moved around but ultimately came back to their first loves: their childhood clubs. read more

Pep Guardiola is said by The Times to have told both the City board and the players he will be staying despite the sanction and reported interest from Serie A champions Juventus. read more

UEFA announced the sanction on Friday, with European football’s governing body punishing City for what it said were serious financial fair play breaches. read more

The ruling, if upheld, would mean Manchester City would not be able to compete in next season’s Champions League should they again qualify for Europe’s top club competition. read more

Pep Guardiola has won five major trophies in three seasons at the Etihad, but a failure to progress beyond the quarter-finals of the Champions League has been the big disappointment of his reign. read more

Liverpool are on course for a first league title in 30 years with Juergen Klopp’s side winning 24 out of 25 games for a 22-point lead over champions Manchester City -- the biggest of any leader at the end of a matchday in English top-flight history. read more

City manager Pep Guardiola will hope Sterling’s absence is not much longer than the West Ham game as his side gear up for a hectic schedule. read more

City’s 2-0 loss at Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday was their sixth league defeat of the season, two more than in the whole of the previous campaign, and left them 22 points behind Liverpool, who are set to end a 30-year wait for a league title. read more

Jose Mourinho’s men had been completely outplayed for the first hour on Sunday, but were kept in the game by City’s profligacy and Hugo Lloris’s first-half penalty save from Ilkay Gundogan. read more

Jurgen Klopp’s side have turned the title race into a procession and the runaway leaders saw off struggling West Ham on Wednesday to make it a remarkable 23 victories from 24 league games this season. read more

City enjoyed the vast majority of the chances on Wednesday but could not find a way past the inspired David de Gea and went behind to United’s first attempt on goal 10 minutes before half-time when Nemanja Matic fired home. read more