Pep Guardiola's faith in Manchester City looks could be tested to the limit after the Premier League charged the current champions with a raft of alleged financial regulation breaches.
Abu Dhabi-owned City have won four of the last five Premier League titles and recently topped the Deloitte Football Money League for the second year running with an annual revenue of £619million.
But on Monday, the Premier League issued a statement confirming that the Sky Blues had been referred to an independent commission for alleged breaches of financial regulations, dating back to the 2009/10 campaign onwards.