Manuel Akanji concerned over Manchester City titles as Kyle Walker weighs in
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Manuel Akanji has confessed he is worried that his accomplishments at Manchester City could be stripped from him following the club being found guilty of violating the Premier League's financial regulations.
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An independent commission determined that City were guilty of 114 of the 115 charges brought against them by the Premier League. They were found to have utilized "sham" contracts to conceal funding worth over £830 million ($1.097 billion) between 2009 and 2018.
City are still firmly maintaining their innocence and have filed an appeal. The club have adopted a siege mentality, reassuring their players and staff that they possess 'irrefutable evidence' that will clear their name.
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Former manager Pep Guardiola will attend City's UEFA Champions League fixture against Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday as a demonstration of solidarity. However, remarks from Akanji, who represented the club between 2022 and 2025, helping them secure two Premier League titles, the Champions League and the FA Cup, have hinted at the sentiment among City alumni.
"I'm still in touch with a few players, but I don't know any more than you do. We were told to stay calm, that they had everything under control and nothing major had happened," the Swiss international, who now plays for Inter Milan, said in an interview with Nau.
"I trust the people in charge at Man City that that's the case. I hope I don't lose my titles. That would be a bit of a shame. But I'm only seeing it all in the news, too. Who knows what else they might dig up."
The commission holds the authority to relegate City, impose unlimited fines, points deductions, or transfer bans, but is highly unlikely to retrospectively strip the club of its titles during the nine-year period, as per The Mirror. Akanji joined City in 2022, four years after the period to which the Premier League's allegations relate.
City chief executive Ferran Soriano addressed club staff in a video following the verdict, asserting it was based on "a single false accusation" which supports "the Premier League's conspiracy theory" against them.
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His message pledged to "take care of our extended City family" and that appears to have struck a chord with Kyle Walker. The experienced defender represented City from 2017 to 2025 — a spell that included six Premier League titles, the Champions League, two FA Cups, the FIFA Club World Cup, and four Carabao Cups.
Walker told talkSPORT: "Obviously it doesn't look great. I know it's in an appeal stage so, for me to start commenting on the legal action and everything like that, probably it's not going to do myself justice or anyone involved in it.
"But, at a personal level, I can say the lads, we spent many and many a great year celebrating many trophies and everything like that and that's something that, whatever happens, they can't take away from us because we've experienced them nights.
"So, whatever will be, will be, and it's just down to the appeal now and what goes from there."