Nine Premier League clubs including Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool tried to stop Manchester City overturning their European ban.

City were slapped with a ban from all Uefa European competitions for two seasons after “serious breaches” of Financial Fair Play in February.

Pep Guardiola’s side were also hit with a £27million fine.

But the Court of Arbitration for Sport controversially overturned the ban earlier this month.

CAS also reduced the fine to £9m after City’s appeal and today released a 92-page document with full details from the case.

Within the pages CAS revealed the reasons behind their decision which split opinion.

And one was that almost half the teams in the Prem had written to them to oppose City asking for a “stay of execution” on their ban.

Burnley, Leicester, Newcastle, Spurs and Wolves were the other sides to come forward.

The statement read: “On March 9 2020, nine Premier League clubs filed an application for intervention…for the limited purpose of opposing any possible application by MCFC to request for a stay of execution of the Appealed Decision.”

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