After Manchester City were slapped with a two-season UEFA Champions League ban and a massive fine, former Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger, who now works for FIFA, has shown no sympathy for the Premier League champions.
The Citizens have been banned from playing in the Champions League for two seasons by UEFA, and been hit with a £25 million (R480 million) fine for seriously breaching Financial Fair Play rules between 2012 and 2016.
While the Manchester side will appeal the ban, FIFA's Chief of Global Football Development Wenger believes clubs are required to respect the rules set out for them.
"People who are caught trying to get around the rules in more or less legal ways have to be punished, if it is proven that this has been done on purpose.
"I think sport is basically to win by respecting the rules - we celebrate the best in every sport, and we want to know that they respect the rules.
"If there is no respect for the rules it is not real sport. If you go into a competition it is a sign that you respect the rules.
"I don't know the rule well enough to know what kind of punishment has to be made.
"But this is the sanction that is planned if the clubs don't respect the rule."
