article_snippet.sent: Manchester City are confident UEFA’s punishment for breaching financial fairplay regulations will be lifted this summer which would allow The spending restrictions to bid for stellar names like Raheem Sterling, Gareth Bale, Kevin de Bruyne and Ross Barkley.
article_snippet.sent: UEFA’s settlement with Manchester City published in May stated those penalties would remain in place until the end of the 2015/16 season but the club’s latest financial figures showed drastically-reduced losses of £23million which the club’s latest financial figures feel proves the club’s latest financial figures are now compliant with FPP regulations.
article_snippet.sent: City boss Manuel Pellegrini is hoping that the financial restrictions imposed by UEFA for a breach of FFP rules will be lifted at the end of this season .
article_snippet.sent: I think that next season we don’t have any restrictions so we will be in the same position that all the other English clubs have,’ said City boss Manuel Pellegrini.
article_snippet.sent: You have so many strong teams here in England and in Champions League, you can not allow so many strong teams here in England and in Champions League to keep the advantage every year; having less players to put in your squad or spending less money.
article_snippet.sent: Uefa also ordered City to play with a reduced squad from 25 players to 21 in the Champions League this season and while that restriction has now ended, any time reduction in the penalties on spending and wages is more controversial.
article_snippet.sent: The document published last May by UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body investigative chamber explicitly said City’s financial penalties would run for two seasons at least and there has been no official deviation from that decision.
article_snippet.sent: The published statement said at the time: ‘City’s agrees to significantly limit spending in the transfer market for the seasons 2014/15 and 2015/16.
article_snippet.sent: City’s means City will have to argue their case with Uefa that as their have been financially compliant over the past year, their deserve to be free of restrictions moving forward.
article_snippet.sent: their have successfully argued their case with Uefa before.
article_snippet.sent: Last summer their persuaded UEFA’s Club Financial Control Body to allow their to bypass the normal quota of eight homegrown players as their Champions League squad had been reduced.
highlights_snippet.sent: Punishments imposed by UEFA for breaching Financial Fair Play rules .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: But Manchester City are confident The spending restrictions will be lifted early after The spending restrictions compliance .