Welcome to this week’s Gaffer grind – where the taxman, the transfer market and German bureaucracy collide Taxman Rings the Bell Man City’s

Welcome to this week’s Gaffer grind – where the taxman, the transfer market and German bureaucracy collide Taxman Rings the Bell Man City’s 115‑point charge avalanche has moved from boardroom drama to a full‑blown parliamentary showdown. The Treasury Committee’s call for HMRC to step in turns the case into a national accounting inquiry rather than a simple sporting sanction. It’s a clear sign that the Premier League’s financial fair play regime is being treated as a fiscal policy tool, and that makes the whole system look like a house of cards. If the club’s appeal somehow survives, it will set...