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- Manager laments club?s ?3m fines for late second halves
- Burna Boy pre-show ?made Champions League final late?
Pep Guardiola has lamented the Premier League?s strict rules that have led to Manchester City being fined more than ?3m for 30 late second-half restarts in the past three seasons, jokingly bemoaning that Burna Boy did not suffer a similar fate after delaying the kick-off in the 2023 Champions League final.
City play at Newcastle on Saturday evening, beginning a hectic schedule in which they will play twice a week until mid-January. They travelled to the north-east on Friday afternoon, leading to a change in routine at the Etihad Campus and an early pre-match press conference in order to comply with Premier League rules and avoid another punitive fee.
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