Carragher calls for City titles to be stripped and owners to leave

Former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher has called for Manchester City to be stripped of trophies won during the period covered by a Premier League commission’s financial-rule findings and said the club’s owners should leave. City denies wrongdoing and says it will appeal the decision, while any sanction remains to be determined separately. Carragher said the titles should be removed from City’s record but questioned whether they should be awarded to the teams that finished second. He argued that changing the historical winners would not restore the experience of winning to the players and supporters of rival clubs. His comments were directed at the consequences of the commission’s findings, not a decision on what punishment should be imposed. The commission found City liable for breaches of Premier League financial rules, according to reports on its decision. The case concerns conduct between 2009 and 2018, a period in which City won three Premier League titles. The underlying decision and its detailed reasoning were not included in the reports, and the club disputes the findings.