Elliot Anderson was so delighted that he even considered Manchester City the "King of Manchester" when he was bought by Enzo Maresca's club in April 2026, for a fee that broke the Premier League transfer record this season.
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Bought for 116 million pounds (Rp2.7 trillion), Anderson is the third most expensive Premier League player of all time after Declan Rice and Jack Grealish, who was also bought by City but then sold to Everton in the middle of this year.
Anderson has justified his high price tag with a sophisticated quality that has seen City become the only Premier League club to win their first five games of the season, leading them to the top of the table.
But the mood of Anderson, and that of other Manchester City stars, including Erling Haaland, may have been soured by the shock news that their club had been found to have breached Premier League financial rules.
The who obtained leaked results of an investigation by an independent commission assigned by the Premier League authorities to investigate Man City's financial practices during the ownership era of the City Football Group Limited consortium formed by Khaldoon Al Mubarak.
81 percent of City Football Group shares are controlled by the Abu Dhabi United Group for Development and Investment (ADUG).
The leaked report was first reported by The Athletic, BBC, The Guardian, The Times and Sky Sports, on September 25.
They reported that City were found guilty of 114 of 115 charges of breaching the league's financial rules.
Until last weekend, Premier League officials remained silent. However, four days later (September 29), the Premier League finally confirmed the leak.
On its website, the Premier League stated that an independent commission tasked with their work had found Manchester City FC guilty of all charges relating to various serious breaches of Premier League financial regulations over nine seasons.
City were also found guilty of almost all charges relating to their uncooperative attitude towards the Premier League investigation.
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