"It doesn't look great," Kyle Walker said as he responded to Manchester City's guilty verdict over Premier League financial rules. The club have appealed against an independent commission judgment that they broke those rules between 2009-10 and 2017-18, and Walker kept his public comments tight to that appeal stage.
Walker's view on the verdict
Walker said he did not want to turn the case into a public legal argument. "So, whatever will be, will be, and it's just down to the appeal now and what goes from there," he said.
That caution fits the way he framed the issue. Speaking to the Daily Mail, he said that starting to comment on the legal action would probably do "myself justice or anyone involved in it" no good.
City’s trophy years in Walker's memory
The sharper part of his response was about what cannot be taken away. Walker spent eight years at City from 2017 to 2025, won the Champions League and 12 major domestic honours, and said the players remember the celebrations as much as any judgment.
"But, at a personal level, I can say the lads, we spent many and many a great year celebrating many trophies and everything like that and that's something that, whatever happens, they can't take away from us because we've experienced them nights," he said.
He also widened that point to the supporters, saying it is "very difficult because we've worked very hard for them, and not just us, I look at the fans as well." On the treble night in Istanbul, he added, the fans who travelled abroad "deserve that night as well."
Walker is speaking from Burnley now, where he has made 1 appearance in all competitions in 2026 and has a 6.9 rating in the League Cup. The verdict may still be in appeal, but his position is already clear, City’s trophies belong to the people who lived them, and the legal fight is not over yet.
Written by Jack Mercer with AI-assisted research, cross-checked against 2 outlets. How we work →
