Pep Guardiola gave a blunt response to comments from Everton boss Sean Dyche, who quizzed why the Toffees have been punished before Man City, despite being charged after the Premier League champions.
It has now been over a year since City were charged with breaking financial rules and are still awaiting a verdict on their 115 alleged breaches.
Everton were charged one month later and received a ten-point deduction in November – a decision that they are appealing. The Toffees were again charged with breaching the Premier League’s Profitability and Sustainability Rules – along with Nottingham Forest – last month.
Ahead of Everton’s trip to the Etihad Stadium on Saturday, Dyche questioned why there appeared to be different rules for different clubs, after the Toffees were punished sooner after being charged later than City.
Guardiola in his own press conference today, said: ‘I know my opinion about that. I spoke many times. I don’t have anything else to add. We will wait.’
Pep Guardiola’s side are still awaiting a verdict to their 115 charges of alleged financial breaches
Sean Dyche quizzed why the Toffees have been punished before Man City – despite being charged after
The Spaniard has previously asked for City’s verdict to be sped up though has accepted the complexity of the case means more time is needed to address the charges.
He did though fire back at UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin last month over comments that the European governing was right to punish Man City for financial irregularities.
Dyche when asked about City’s charges taking longer to deal with than Everton’s, said: ‘Just like everyone else, we are all wondering what makes one rule for one and one rule for the other.
‘I think that’s the only thing. I don’t know the ins and outs for every reason but I think we are all asking that.
‘The people in the street are asking that – ‘why is it particularly Everton?’ I don’t know what the exact number is but they reference over 100 charges.
‘I don’t know the implications of that either, I don’t know the detail of them charges but you go well, we have one. You just go with common sense, I’m not talking about the rules.
Guardiola would prefer to wait to comment on City’s charges despite Dyche raising questions over the reigning Premier Leage champions
‘I’m not questioning Man City or whatever they’ve done stuff or not done stuff. The point is it is certainly a long time. That story has been going round for a while now about all these charges.
‘So how come that’s that’ and where is everyone else’s charges? What’s happening with them? I don’t even know how you answer that many charges if there is that many. I don’t know the variants of what the charges are.’
