PtG
Podcast 30.09.2026
Manchester City: The money behind the success – with Nick Harris
For years, questions about Manchester City’s finances followed the club from one trophy celebration to the next. An independent commission has now found serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules across nine seasons, involving overstated income and understated costs totalling more than £900 million.
In this episode, we revisit some of investigative journalist Nick Harris’s work. Drawing on documents and years of reporting, Harris examines the money behind City’s sponsorship agreements and describes his efforts to get answers from the club.
Host Stanis Elsborg places Harris’s reporting in the context of the commission’s findings, published on 29 September 2026.
Manchester City rejects the commission’s findings and says it will appeal. At the time of recording, sanctions had not been decided.
Host and narrator: Stanis Elsborg, head of Play the Game
This episode is produced by Play the Game.
Music: I Walk With Ghosts by Scott Buckley and Cold Case by Riverside