Kyle Walker makes tattoo vow if Man City are stripped of Premier League titles
WATCH NOW: Enzo Maresca speaks out after Man City beat AEK Athens. The former City captain had their historic four successive league triumphs between 2021 and 2024 inked onto his leg.
He collected six Premier League winners' medals during eight seasons at the Etihad after arriving from Tottenham in 2017. City are appealing an independent panel's financial rules verdict, with the possibility of losing silverware hanging over the club.
Walker was asked on talkSPORT whether his tattoo would have to go should those championships be taken away. "I'm probably going to have to do that," he said.
"But you look at the likes of the great Man United squad, and they never managed to get four in a row. So there's only a select few of us that can say that we won four.
I'll try and keep it on, but hopefully we don't get the things taken away." The defender, now playing for Burnley in the Championship, remained fiercely protective of the players responsible for City's success. While acknowledging how the situation looks beyond the dressing room, Walker insisted their performances deserved recognition.
"As a player, all I can say is that all we did is go out and play our best football as a team and I will defend the players for the rest of my life," he continued. "I feel that what we achieved in that space of time was probably incredible and probably won't be done ever again.
From the outside looking in, it doesn't look great and we have to address that."
The Daily Mail have reported that City face a potential points deduction severe enough to send them into the Championship.
Whether any titles will be removed remains unresolved, while the club maintain their innocence and are challenging the panel's findings. According to the Premier League's account of the verdict, City used arrangements with commercial partners to overstate income and understate expenditure between 2009 and 2018.
The league says the combined distortion amounted to £900million, enabling spending beyond the limits that accurately reported finances would have permitted.