FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - Premier League - Manchester City vs Huddersfield Town - Etihad Stadium, Manchester, Britain - May 6, 2018 Manchester City celebrate with the trophy after winning the Premier League title REUTERS/Phil Noble
LONDON (Reuters) - When soccer's governing body in Europe began to get tough on the sport's finances from 2009 onwards, the British club Manchester City came up with a two-pronged counter-attack, a trove of documents relating to soccer shows.
One Man City plan was to get more money from sponsors; another was to offload some costs relating to players' image rights. In both cases, the owner of Man City, an Abu Dhabi royal, would foot some of the bill, according to "Football Leaks" documents obtained by the German publication Der Spiegel and reviewed by Reuters in partnership with European Investigative Collaborations, a consortium of media organisations.
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