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Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu has accused Manchester City of distorting the transfer market.

The Nou Camp chief has lashed out at the Blues, just a day after La Liga confirmed that it had asked Uefa to launch a fresh investigation of both City and Paris St Germain under financial fair play rules.

Bartomeu is under heavy pressure after the £198million sale of Brazil star Neymar to PSG and their failure to prise Philippe Coutinho from Liverpool in the summer.

But he turned his fire on City and PSG, two clubs who have previously been punished by Uefa's financial fair play rules, which are ostensibly intended to force clubs to live within their means.

He claimed that City being owned by Sheikh Mansour, a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family, and PSG by Qatar Sports Investments, skews the market.

“Qatar and Abu Dhabi, two countries that have two clubs,” he commented to Catalan newspaper Sport.

“If Bayern, United, Madrid or Arsenal buy a player, you know it comes from football. But these two clubs distort the market.”

In 2014 both City and PSG were hit with 60million euros fines with 40million euros of it suspended, had their Champions League squads reduced to 21 players and were handed transfer and salary restrictions.

Since then, both clubs have successfully complied with FFP.

Both clubs are confident that they will not fall foul of Uefa after this summer's activity.

That saw the Blues break the world record for transfer spending with a £208million splurge – only for PSG to smash that by signing Neymar for £198million and Yuri Berchiche for £14million.