Rui Pinto

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And finally, Rui Pinto, whose Football League's disclosure helped trigger scrutiny of Manchester City's finances, is set to lose his witness protection in Portugal.

His protection is due to end on October 10th after being in place since 2020.

Pinto's lawyers say removing it could leave him at greater risk.

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And finally, Football League's whistleblower Rui Pinto is set to lose his witness protection in Portugal on the 10th of October.

Pinto's disclosures helped trigger scrutiny of Manchester City's finances.

An independent commission has since found City guilty of serious breaches of Premier League financial rules over nine seasons.

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Uh, yeah, what a week it's been, man.

Today was the deadline.

Uh, I think the Premier League and obviously, uh, rival clubs of Manchester City, fellow clubs of Arsenal will want sanctions to be delivered because it kinda just lingers, doesn't it? I mean, if the sanctions come later in the season, is it gonna impact this season? Is it from next season? There's so many different, uh, you know, consequences to kinda think about.

The only other thing about this before we talk about the impact it's had on Arsenal and whether we look back at, um, you know, our last 10, 15 years slightly differently is, uh, the Portuguese computer hacker, Rui Pinto, who was, uh, who, who was originally responsible for the released documents via Football Leaks, it led to the Premier League investigation, uh, is set to lose his witness protection, uh, despite his fears that he could be assassinated.

Um, now the Portuguese authorities have said, um, that they, uh, refuse to look after him now.

It's hard to believe, he says, no one in the Premier League's headquarters, where there is supposedly a compliance unit, considered this jump in sponsorship to be odd.

It actually took Rui Pinto, the hacker, to put this in the public domain, didn't it? And not the Premier League.

So how culpable are they and those that run that organisation?

Well, another way of looking at it is, since you mentioned the red team of Manchester, when they'd won the treble, their sponsorship income was £18 million.

But if I'm driving down the road and a 40 mile an hour speed limit and a Mini and the guy next to me has got a Ferrari, he's also got to do 40 because those are the rules.

no matter how dominant he believes himself to be because he's driving a nice big car, if we have rules, we have to abide by them.

And the Premier League did not wake up to what was happening there or didn't want to know what was happening there until Rui Pinto, who was subsequently charged with criminality in his own country because he exposed Porto and Benfica, said, no, no, no, have a look at this.

Now, I'm also led to believe there's more to come.

yeah.

I have seen I'm friends with Rui Pinto, and he sent me the facts, and I know that they are cheats, and I do not need to say allegedly anymore.

Now look, the reason we talk about Wenger today is not only because he predicted the future, but it is now 30 years since Arsene Wenger's first day at Arsenal.

How much, Shay, do you think was the latter part of his tenure impacted and undermined by what Man City were able to do? Before you answer that, we touched on the five players that joined City from Arsenal between 2009 and 2014.

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And computer hacker, Rui Pinto, the man behind the Football Leaks website, which helped trigger the Premier League probe into Manchester City's finances, faces dire consequences after having his protected witness status removed, his lawyers said today.

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Uh, and what a great place to start.

Uh, Rui Pinto, the man that saved football, uh, for those who know who Rui Pinto is, he's the, the, the gentleman who hacked, broke into, uh, came across, whatever you want to phra- phraseology you want to, uh, come across.

A- and he was the one that found and exposed these documents of all of the alleged financial breaches and frauds and, uh, misdeeds, uh, of Manchester City and their ownership going back, uh, years.

Um, the charges are pretty damning, and it casts, uh, serious doubt over the, uh, the legality in all of the achievements that Manchester City, uh, accomplished, uh, since I'd say, what, 2014, I think would be the, um, the period we're, we're, we're looking in doubt.

that's where everyone started well it's

not coming out that Rui Pinto that's his name isn't it he's hacked the emails he's coming out today now saying that Gianni Infantino everyone's best mate he knew all about it as well it's just it's looking like a big massive cover up isn't

it yeah yeah and it's a massive cover up because of who the owners are if this was if this was Jack Walker back in the day with Blackburn doing this This should be dealt with and done.

But because it's a nation state, it's bigger than football.