Time for our biweekly Mailbag on all things soccer, with the questions—all of them from actual readers—greatly appreciated by me. Let’s go!
But first: there's been DEFCON-1 breaking news from UEFA, which announced late Friday it had banned Manchester City from European competition (including Champions League) for two seasons and issued a €30 million fine. Man City, UEFA said, “committed serious breaches of the UEFA Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Regulations by overstating its sponsorship revenue in its accounts and in the break-even information submitted to UEFA between 2012 and 2016. The Adjudicatory Chamber has also found that in breach of the regulations the Club failed to cooperate in the investigation of this case by the CFCB.