"The modern Manchester City doesn't really exist without the way the club has been operating," says The Athletic's James Horncastle - but Spanish journalist Guillem Balague believes a guilty verdict shouldn't "taint" Pep Guardiola's achievements. "People can say as often as they want that he is a cheat or a fraud, but they are only trying to mix the behaviour of a club - who are part of an ongoing process, it has to be said - with the world of a manager who reached extraordinary heights with a team that wasn't guaranteed to reach them."