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Aymeric Laporte has opened up on the response by Manchester City's players following the club's two-year European ban for breaching financial fair play (FFP) laws, saying they're professionals who "have to do our job."
UEFA published a report on February 14 confirming City will be banned from the next two Champions League campaigns and fined €30 million (£25.1 million) for overstating sponsorship revenue between 2012 and 2016.
Laporte, 25, recently returned from a four-month spell out of action with a serious knee injury, and he said the Citizens have enough motivation to bounce back from the punishment, per the Mirror's David McDonnell:
"We are professionals, a big team with big personalities in the dressing room, and I think we just think about football, nothing else.