Tariq Panja
@tariqpanja.bsky.social
⚽️💰🚓 Co-author Football's Secret Trade| NYT Global Sports Correspondent| ✉️tariq.panja@nytimes.com |tariq.panja@protonmail.com|
Another development in the comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence case… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Audit regulator looking into Manchester City accounting
No formal investigation has started, but the regulator is making inquiries into the case.
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Libero is going live again! This time we're doing two of the most important of the least important live shows, Leeds (18th November) and London (20th November). Tickets are on sale now! Leeds ticket link: tickettailor.com/events/insti... London ticket link: tickettailor.com/events/insti...
Another layoff for Reece James. Taken together he will have missed almost three years through injury since making his first team debut. Can't be easy coming back over and over.
New Libero Does the Premier League need Brighton and Brentford to succeed? @rorysmith.bsky.social @brewin.bsky.social @jackpittbrooke.bsky.social pod.fo/e/6c076f
Libero: 167 | Why Does The Premier League Need Brighton And Brentford?
The Premier League's two smartest, most upwardly-mobile teams, Brighton and Brentford, are currently third and fourth in the table. Is it too soon to talk about Champions League football? What do w...
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OFCOM report into why it considered attempt by company owned by Sheikh Mansour to buy the Daily Telegraph “against the public interest” is out. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ad0f1... This paragraph one of several that stand out and worth considering in context of Man City’s ownership.
When this guy showed up just knew this would be his end … but $500m 🤯 One-time prospective Everton owner Josh Wander pleaded guilty to $500m fraud. www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr...
Key FIFA Council meeting, absurdly the first since the World Cup scandal exploded in July, lasted just over three hours. First one to get out of there is UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin. Would have been useful to hear him say something given UEFA’s ongoing battle with Infantino. Another time maybe
This must not NOT be seen as a bribe, electioneering or anything unseemly. Buuut Infantino’s FIFA, under pressure and desperate to secure support for March’s election, has decided to boost the coffers of the 211 FA/voters by increasing funding by $15m for each to $25m irrespective of need. 🍾 🍾
⚽️ 💰 FIFA’s Trump Tower Deal: 7 Years, $4 Million, One Mostly Unused Office www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/w...
FIFA Pays Millions for Trump Tower Office Said to Be Rarely Used (Gift Article)
The deal is another sign of how Gianni Infantino, the leader of soccer’s global governing body, has sought closer ties to President Trump.
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New Libero Manchester City: what now? @jonawils.bsky.social @tariqpanja.bsky.social @migueldelaney.bsky.social pod.fo/e/6b0174
Libero: 166 | PSG Have Become The Establishment. Man City Went A Different Way
PSG are a superclub backed by an oil state who have come to dominate European football. Not dissimilar then to Manchester City. Yet, ahead of their Champions League meeting this week, one club is f...
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⚽️ 💰 FIFA’s Trump Tower Deal: 7 Years, $4 Million, One Mostly Unused Office www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/w...
FIFA Pays Millions for Trump Tower Office Said to Be Rarely Used (Gift Article)
The deal is another sign of how Gianni Infantino, the leader of soccer’s global governing body, has sought closer ties to President Trump.
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Navi Pillay, the former UN official and South African judge, who quit Infantino's FIFA's governance committee because its officials "violate the norms and standards of good conduct" has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. (Infantino/FIFA and UN still close) www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...
Nobel Peace Prize Live Updates: Navi Pillay, Human Rights Lawyer, Wins
Ms. Pillay has served as a judge in her native South Africa and on international courts investigating war crimes. She led a U.N. panel that determined that Israel had committed genocide against Palest...
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The Man City Scandal Is About More Than Football www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...
The Man City Scandal Is About More Than Football
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People worrying about what repercussions of Man City being punished could bring for the league should also consider what damage Man City cheating has already wrought: This cheating has corrupted the league for a minimum of a decade and further success built on top of that.
Aleksander Ceferin, the UEFA president, said he would “lead by example” and not stand more than three terms to set a good example. Now that third term is coming to an end, guess what? Aleksander Ceferin is standing four a fourth term at the same time he has called for better governance at FIFA. 😵💫
This BC Partners investment in LIV Golf to me makes no sense even as a tax-shield or whatever it is that is being speculated. That business will never work. The idea that these franchises have any meaningful value moving forward is bonkers and buyers sell to other idiots. I don't want to say Ponzi
⚽️ 👮 How Infantino’s FIFA ignored own rules on player eligibility to allow DRCongo to qualify for the 2026 World Cup. FIFA found that Congo should have been disqualified but kept ineligible player discovery quiet. Ronaldo, Balogun and now Congo. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/w...
FIFA Found Congo Player Ineligible, Let Him Play in World Cup (Gift Article)
Officials determined that a goalkeeper from the Democratic Republic of Congo did not have the correct paperwork, documents show. But no action was taken, renewing questions about FIFA’s governance.
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So after years of insisting to the point of demanding corrections of anyone saying Manchester City is owned by the UAE and not a private investment of “his highness” sheikh Mansour, City will now insist in its appeal that City is actually owned by the UAE. Riiiggghhht then. 🥸
Some interesting surrogates in the media in this Man City case, some for the club and some for individuals associated with it. Fascinating to see it play out. Good case study for media studies students.
Looking at details in Man City verdict, other cases and leaked emails, it’s astonishing how brazen and straightforward this scheme was without anyone at the PL noticing. It took a computer hack and then leaks to bring it out into open. The oversight clearly couldn’t discover such an obvious scheme.
If, according to the panel, Manchester City cheated and witnesses told mistruths about Abu Dhabi sponsorships why wouldn’t those self same companies and those connected with them also not be in exactly the same situation? They are part of the scheme.
Andy Burnham's comments today expose the situation of selling national football teams to foreign states. He's taking a view, at least in one reading of his comments, that corrupting the national game is not as big an issue as potentially losing foreign investment in Manchester.
If you’re wondering why the European Football Clubs chairman Nasser al Khelaifi came out in defence of City’s ceo Ferran Soriano last night. This might offer one clue… www.nytimes.com/2019/07/24/s...
In P.S.G. Case, Documents Show UEFA Surrendered Without a Fight (Published 2019)
Disputed facts and an investigator’s calculations raise questions about European soccer’s commitment to enforcing its financial fair-play rules.
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Manchester City's auditor BDO who signed off the accounts during the years in which an Independent Panel found the club cheated the Premier League rules on -- what can only be described as -- an industrial scale: "We remain bound by confidentiality so cannot comment on this occasion."
😳 Pep before cheats verdict: “If you lie to me, the day after I am not here. I will be out and I will not be your friend anymore.” Pep after verdict: “I am, always have been, always will, be behind my club, my owner, my chairman, Ferran, the players staff, Enzo and you, our unique supporters.”
