Serie A Financial Fair Play worries grow

UEFA are taking a closer look into AC Milan's financial dealings as questions grow around the Serie A side's sudden spending increase over the summer.

Delegates from the Diavolo appeared at the governing body's headquarters two weeks ago to make their case that their financial might is legitimate and not in breach of Financial Fair Play rules.

However UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin remains unconvinced and awaits the results of a disciplinary committee investigation into where the club's transfer funds have actually come from.

Alarms were set off in Nyon when over 200 million euros was splashed on new signings and UEFA subsequently asked for guarantees and documents from Silvio Berlusconi's Fininvest and the Chinese consortium, known as Rossoneri Sport Investment Lux, that Milan has recently been purchased by.

MARCA understand that these financial commitments appear to have been pledged based on the future success of the team, namely their entry into the Champions League, which is not enough of a guarantee in FFP terms and could earn them a big penalty such as exclusion from continental competitions.

Furthermore, a recent New York Times investigation found that Li Yonghong, the new Chinese owner of the Lombardy club, is not the true owner of the mining company from which he claims his wealth, making his personal fortune considerably smaller than first assumed.