Manchester City winger Iliman Ndiaye has opened the door to a potential return to former club Marseille, admitting his future at the Premier League side is not set in stone. The 26-year-old, who joined City in the summer, was asked about the French club while on international duty with Senegal.
Speaking to French outlet La Provence, Ndiaye said: “The shouts from Marseille supporters asking me to come back? It is nice to hear. I don’t think that the story is finished, but we will see. I’m just saying, I never know where it’ll lead me, but we’ll see anyway.”
City's summer spending and guilty verdict
Ndiaye was part of an aggressive transfer window under Enzo Maresca, who is hoping to reclaim the Premier League title after entering the international break top of the table. Alongside Ndiaye, City signed Enzo Fernandez, Elliot Anderson and Ayyoub Bouaddi.
However, last week City were found guilty of breaching 114 of the Premier League's financial rules. The verdict found the club had “arranged sham contracts” – which misrepresented the true agreement between the parties – with a number of its commercial partners, as well as relying on “sham” agreements with others, to artificially inflate its revenues and reduce its costs over a nine-year period from 2009 to 2018.
Club statement and appeal
A statement said: “The club filed misstated accounts and concealed the true state of its finances from its auditors and football regulators.” It added that throughout the investigation City “committed multiple breaches of its duties of co-operation and utmost good faith towards the league”.
City reject the verdict and have launched an appeal. The club confirmed: “Manchester City Football Club can confirm that at 7pm on Thursday 1st October 2026 the club lodged its comprehensive appeal against the opinion of the Premier League Commission, in relation to the Premier League disciplinary matter.
“The club’s firm position is that, on multiple grounds, the opinion contains clear material errors, of law, principle and fact and is unsafe. The club is innocent of the accusations made by the Premier League and a comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence exists in support of all of its positions, relating to this case. We will continue to respect due process and are necessarily restricted in what we can say further until all proceedings are complete.”
