Man Utd given extra FA Cup incentive as Man City on cusp of hefty cash prize

Manchester United will be hoping to spoil Manchester City’s plans by beating the Sky Blues in the FA Cup final next Saturday. The Red Devils go head-to-head with their neighbours in the first ever all-Manchester domestic cup final. And on top of looking to stop City from repeating their 1999 feat of winning the treble, they can help deny their close rivals a nice cash prize too.

If City can win the Champions League and FA Cup over the coming weeks to secure an incredible treble of trophies, then they will receive a staggering £294million. The Citizens have already secured themselves a £180m jackpot after lifting the Premier League for a third successive season and the FA Cup is worth a further £8m to them.

The biggest prize comes in the Champions League. If City are crowned European champions for the first time against Inter Milan, a week after the FA Cup final, they stand to net £110m. City’s total earnings would be the biggest prize pot ever received by a football team in a single season if they win all three competitions.

And United will be eager to prevenr City from racking up nearly £300m by beating them in the FA Cup final at Wembley. Doing so would see Erik ten Hag secure a domestic cup double as well as a top-four finish in his first season at Old Trafford.

And it would of course mean City cannot win the treble, even though they could still do an iconic double of the Premier League and Champions League. Pep Guardiola’s charges head to Istanbul on June 10 to face Inter.

City are meanwhile the subject of a Premier League investigation which has been launched into allegations that the club broke multiple financial fair play rules during a nine-year period, stretching from 2009 to 2018.

The Premier League allege that City did not provide accurate financial information for nine seasons including exactly how much were paying former manager Roberto Mancini.

It is alleged that Mancini received an extra £1.75m salary via Sheikh Mansour’s Abu Dhabi club, Al Jazira, on top of his £1.45m wage through Man City’s club books. 

But the reigning Premier League champions refute all of the allegations and insist they have “irrefutable evidence” to disprove all 115 alleged breaches. They added: “As such we look forward to this matter being put to rest once and for all.”