Manchester City are set to pull out of the proposed European Super League with the competition looking on the verge of collapse
Reports began to emerge on Tuesday evening that Chelsea would be the first Premier League team to withdraw after their game against Brighton at Stamford Bridge was marred with protests.
But City are believed to have told organisers they no longer want any part of the tournament.
It comes after their manager Pep Guardiola criticised the idea at a press conference earlier in the day.
He said: “If you ask me [why] these teams have been selected, I don’t know the reason why.
"It is not a sport where the relation between the effort and the success, the effort and the reward, does not exist. It is not a sport where success is already guaranteed or it is not a sport when it doesn’t matter where you lose.
"That’s why I said many times, I want the best competition, the strongest competition possible, especially the Premier League. It is not fair when one team fight, fight, fight, arrive at the top and cannot qualify because success is already guaranteed just for a few teams.
"I don’t know what is going to change. [Even if] the people say: ‘No, no, maybe four or five teams can go up and play this competition,’ [then] what happens to the 14 or 15 not playing a good season and every time will be there? So this is not sport."
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