{"id":412202,"date":"2023-02-10T11:20:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T16:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412202"},"modified":"2023-02-10T11:20:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T16:20:39","slug":"guardiola-convinced-man-city-are-innocent","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/guardiola-convinced-man-city-are-innocent\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardiola convinced Man City are innocent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says he is &#8220;fully convinced&#8221; that the Citizens are innocent despite being charged by the English Premier League for allegedly breaching financial rules.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pep Guardiola: &quot;I am not moving from this seat. I. Can. Assure. You. Now more than ever, I want to stay. Sometimes I have doubts: seven\/eight years is a long time. Now, I do not want to move on.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/srrhrIwM7u\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/srrhrIwM7u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; City Report (@cityreport_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cityreport_\/status\/1624063146204733443?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Premier League charged the English champions with more than 100 alleged breaches of financial regualations on Monday\u00a0and has referred the findings to an independent commission.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My first thought is we&#8217;ve already been condemned,&#8221; the Spaniard said. &#8220;We are lucky we live in a country where everyone is innocent until proven guilty. It seems like we have been sentenced already.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is going to happen, I don&#8217;t know. We have good lawyers and I know we are going to defend our position.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in May 2022, Guardiola explained why he had backed City back then and is confident the club will prove their innocence again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This happened with UEFA, it is the same,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The same articles, the same accusations. We will defend ourselves like what happened in the UEFA situation. The court will dictate what happens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am fully convinced that we will be innocent. Since Abu Dhabi took over the club, it has been like that since day one.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says he is &#8220;fully convinced&#8221; that the Citizens are innocent despite being charged by the English Premier League [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412203,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17183,17412,17317],"news_category":[14235,136],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Premier League charged the English champions with more than 100 alleged breaches of financial regulations","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412202"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412202"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}