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Isaac Johnson

La Liga file complaint to FIFA over Erling Haaland transfer as Man City offered England insight

Here are your Manchester City evening headlines for Wednesday, June 15.

La Liga president says City 'must have' broken rules to sign Haaland

La Liga president Javier Tebas has launched another attack on City, making a claim over their ability to sign Erling Haaland and confirming he has made a formal complaint to UEFA against the Blues.

Tebas is a long-standing critic of City and their financial model, despite the club being cleared at the Court of Arbitration for Sport in 2020 after UEFA charged them with breaching Financial Fair Play regulations.

READ MORE: Man City defender John Stones hits back at England critics after Hungary defeat

Now, he has confirmed he sent a formal complaint to UEFA against City and Paris Saint-Germain as he also took aim at City's signing of Haaland for £51m from Borussia Dortmund.

Read what he said here.

De Bruyne was right and Southgate wrong

Pep Guardiola has been stressing the point for years, and Kevin De Bruyne was blunt when asked about his opinion of UEFA's decision to hold four Nations League games in June.

Now those four games are over, it's hard to argue that De Bruyne didn't have it spot on, with all countries showing tiredness and few showing much progress, even looking ahead to the World Cup. For Guardiola watching on, he will have seen plenty to encourage him from a City perspective, but equally won't have seen much to persuade him that a longer break for his players would have been more beneficial.

Still, with 15 senior City players in action, Guardiola can use these four games to help plan his pre-season preparations and try to predict how his players will be used for their countries in September and then the World Cup.

Read the piece in full here.

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