Man City will struggle to hear the verdict over their 115 Premier League charges by the end of the season as it s not in any way realistic , according to former Man City financial adviser Stefan Borson.
An independent commission is set to rule on the 115 charges facing Man City at some stage during the next 12 months, with that the hearing could begin as early as mid-September.
Man City’s alleged breaches relate to rules requiring the reporting of accurate financial information, the submission of details of manager and player pay information within the relevant contracts, a club’s responsibility as a Premier League member to adhere to UEFA’s financial regulations and to the league’s own profitability and sustainability regulations.
The club are also alleged to have breached rules requiring them to co-operate and assist with the Premier League’s investigation into those breaches, which the league said began in December 2018.
Last week, the views of owners and executives who work or have worked within the Premier League on Man City’s FFP situation.
One Premier League club executive was quoted as saying: The collective view I’ve heard is that an appropriate sanction would have to be a points deduction so substantial — we are talking here between 70 and 80 points — that it guarantees City a season in the Championship.
But former Man City financial adviser Borson reckons the Citizens will appeal any punishment given to them over their alleged breaches of the Premier League s financial fair play rules, meaning the case could drag on.
: It’s very complicated because there is inevitably going to be an appeal if City lose.
If the Premier League lose, I don’t know if there will be one, we’ll have to wait and see.
But we’ll also have to see what the decision itself is because that will then dictate whether people think they have a viable case for an appeal.
It could be the way that the decision is written makes that very difficult.
But if you at look what happened with the Everton appeal, what Everton effectively did when they got the 10 points was they took the decision, which was let’s say 60 pages long, and hired pretty much the best commercial barrister in the country in Laurence Rabinowitz KC and effectively asked him to spend five days attacking every point that he could.
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If we have a 200-page judgement or more in the City case, that process and the process around it is going to take some time.
