Manchester City could be hit by a transfer ban for ignoring UEFA's Financial Fair Play laws.
The Telegraph says City were facing a huge sanction on Monday night as Uefa prepared to rule that the spending spree that transformed them into a superpower of the game breached its much-vaunted cost-control regulations.
City, whose billionaire owner, Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan, has bankrolled the most successful period in the club's history, will this week be found guilty of failing to comply with FFP rules - barring an improbable 11th-hour reprieve.
Paris St-Germain are also poised to be punished by Uefa's Club Financial Control Body, which was created to police "greed, reckless spending and financial insanity" in European football and will meet on Tuesday and Wednesday to make its first decisions on which clubs will be prosecuted.
The sanction is likely to be either a heavy fine or transfer embargo to prevent their mega-rich owners adding to two of the most expensive squads in history.
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