What UEFA chief Aleksander Ceferin said about Arsenal and Chelsea as Man City sent clear FFP message

Arsenal and Chelsea will be on tenterhooks after Aleksander Ceferin insisted that UEFA chiefs were 'right' about Manchester City breaching Financial Fair Play rules when the club were dumped out of the Champions League. In 2018, Pep Guardiola's side were issued a two-year ban after they were found guilty of breaking FFP regulations.

City appealed the decision, taking it to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, and it was eventually overturned. In an interview with The Telegraph, Ceferin broke his silence after the Premier League revealed a date had been set for a hearing into its 115 charges against the reigning champions under its own rules.

While the 56-year-old refused to say whether City, who have denied any wrongdoing, should be stripped of titles if found guilty by an independent commission, he insisted that UEFA made the correct decision in 2018. Ceferin said: «We know we were right. We wouldn’t decide if we didn’t think we were right.»

Despite this, Ceferin added that he respects the CAS decision. He added: «As a trial lawyer for 25 years, I know that, sometimes, you win a case that you are sure you will lose. And, sometimes, you lose a case when you’re sure…

»You just simply have to respect in a serious democracy the decision of the court. I don’t want to speak about the case in England. But I trust that the decision of our independent body was correct. I didn’t enter into this decision."

UEFA and its president's strict stance on rule breaks will have struck fear into clubs around Europe. So, with that being said, football.london have taken a look at what Ceferin has said about Arsenal and Chelsea in the past and whether the two London clubs are in his good books.

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