Manchester City manager Andree Jeglertz insists it remains “business as usual” for City Women, even as the men’s club was found guilty of breaching Premier League financial rules. Jeglertz faced seven separate questions on the charges before City’s press officer stepped in to move the press conference along.
The Andree Jeglertz Manchester City press conference came with the women’s side sitting top of the Women’s Super League table, on 12 points from four matches. Jeglertz would not say whether he had been given personal assurances that the women’s team would be shielded from any fallout, and he gave no ground when reporters tried a different angle.
His answers, repeated under pressure, left the bigger question about long-term impact unresolved for now. The contrast between the noise around the men’s case and the calm coming from the women’s dressing room was clear throughout.
Manager Transcript & Dissection (Andree Jeglertz)
Jeglertz’s full exchange with reporters, in comments carried by a BBC Sport report, showed him returning to the same phrase whenever the charges came up. Asked how the women’s team might be affected, he said simply:
business as usual
Pushed on whether the guilty verdict could affect funding or fixtures for City Women, he gave an equally flat response.
I don’t want to comment more around that.
Reporters then raised Pep Guardiola’s public backing of the club on the men’s side. Asked if he stood behind City in the same way, Jeglertz answered without hesitation.
Definitely. I am working at the club now so that’s who I am hired by and working with, so, for sure.
With City preparing to face Real Madrid, he was asked whether the off-field noise had disrupted training. He said it had not.
I don’t think so. We have been training like normal and doing the work we can do to affect the game
He expanded on that when asked what the club had told players since the verdict.
We haven’t changed anything, we have just kept on doing everything we normally do. Definitely the thing the club has been presented, is the information we have inside of our group.
By the time City’s press officer intervened, Jeglertz had closed the subject with one final line.
We can’t talk about anything else and we don’t need to talk about anything else at the moment.
Across seven questions, the pattern held: acknowledge, repeat that nothing has changed, then move on. Jeglertz never confirmed or denied receiving assurances over funding, and he kept every answer tied to football rather than the club’s finances.
That approach points to a deliberate effort to keep City Women’s public messaging separate from the men’s disciplinary case, at least while the appeal is pending. It also shows discipline from a manager who knows one loose remark could shift the story away from his team’s form and onto the club’s wider troubles. For a side top of the table, protecting that focus matters more than satisfying curious reporters.
Player Transcript & Reaction (Jade Rose)
Jade Rose, speaking shortly after the Andree Jeglertz Manchester City press conference, echoed her manager’s line that the squad’s focus had not shifted. Asked what players had been told about the charges, she said the messaging matched what had already been made public.
the same messaging the public has
Asked directly whether the charges had raised concern inside the dressing room, Rose turned the question back to the pitch.
I’m just here to talk about the football. That’s what we’re focusing on.
Her comments matched Jeglertz’s almost word for word in spirit, if not in phrasing. Both suggest a squad asked to treat the verdict as an external matter rather than something touching day-to-day football. Neither manager nor player offered detail beyond what the club had already stated publicly, which suggests a clear internal line on what can and cannot be discussed.
With City Women leading the WSL on 12 points from four games, there is little appetite inside the camp for questions beyond results. Rose’s brief, controlled answers reflect a squad that has been coached on how to handle this line of questioning, rather than one caught off guard by it.
Incident & Rulebook Context
The guilty verdict followed a Premier League independent commission ruling covering nine seasons, from 2009-10 to 2017-18. The Premier League said City arranged sham contracts to disguise more than £830m in secret funding during that period.
Manchester City continue to deny any wrongdoing. The club has until 2 October to lodge an appeal against the findings, a deadline that leaves the next steps in the process still open while the women’s team carries on preparing for matches as normal.
The charges relate to the men’s operation and sit under Premier League jurisdiction, distinct from the Women’s Super League’s own structures. There is no suggestion that the WSL is examining City Women’s finances as part of this case, and Jeglertz’s comments gave no indication that the ruling has changed anything in how the women’s side is run day to day.
The verdict has, however, reignited wider debate about financial disparity in the women’s game, a theme we touched on in our earlier report on rival clubs’ concerns over Premier League-backed resources. For now, Jeglertz and his players have made clear they intend to let that debate play out elsewhere while they focus on holding top spot in the WSL.
