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Chelsea have received their punishment but Manchester City are still waiting to see if they will be found guilty of a number of financial rules breaches that could see them deducted points<\/h2>\n <\/p>\n\n
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The Premier League has potentially offered a hint at the significance of any punishment awaiting Manchester City if they are found guilty of the 115 charges levied against them, after suggesting Chelsea got off with a softer touch due to their cooperation. The Blues were issued with a \u00a310.75million fine, handed a suspended transfer ban on first-team activity and a nine-month ban on signing academy players for breaching the division’s financial rules in relation to seven transfers.<\/p>\n
Chelsea self-reported the issues after the sale of the club by Roman Abramovich to Clearlake Capital and Todd Boehly. The new owners, BlueCo, then flagged the irregularities that saw them admit \u00a347m had been paid to unregistered agents and third parties.<\/p>\n
The transfers for Eden Hazard, Willian, Ramires and David Luiz were among the deals investigated.<\/p>\n
Upon announcing the Blues’ punishment, the Premier League said: “When considering the appropriate sanction, the Premier League Board noted that the club\u2019s proactive self-reporting, admissions of breach and exceptional cooperation throughout the investigation acted as significant mitigating factors.”<\/p>\n
The Premier League charges against City include an allegation that the Manchester club, from December 2018, breached rules requiring them to ‘cooperate with, and assist, the Premier League in its investigations, including by providing documents and information to the Premier League in the utmost good faith’.<\/p>\n
JOIN US ON FB!<\/strong> <\/strong>Get the latest football news from Football London\u2019s Facebook page<\/u><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n The hearing into City\u2019s alleged breaches of the Premier League\u2019s financial rules concluded in December 2024. A 12-week tribunal took place but the independent commission has not yet made its conclusion public.<\/p>\n
City were accused of 115 breaches of financial rules over a nine-year period. The club has maintained its innocence on all counts throughout the process.<\/p>\n
The charges included 54 counts of failure to provide accurate financial information from 2009-10 to 2017-18, plus failure to provide accurate details for player and manager payments across the same period. It is claimed that City could be deducted 40 to 60 points if they are found guilty of some of the most serious charges against them.<\/p>\n
Football finance expert Kieran Maguire said: \u201cIf we take a look at precedents, we\u2019ve had Everton and Nottingham Forest with six and four-point deductions for a single offence covering a three-year period.<\/p>\n
“The accusations against Manchester City cover a nine-year period, so it\u2019s far bigger. The numbers involved, we\u2019re not certain about, but they\u2019re likely to be quite significant.<\/p>\n
“So I think you have to add a zero to what we\u2019ve seen from Forest and Everton, so somewhere between a 40 and 60-point deduction would, I think, on merit, be consistent with what we\u2019ve seen from other decisions on logic. If they want to go further then we don\u2019t know the severity.<\/p>\n
“In the cases of both Forest and Everton, they were to do with FFP (Financial Fair Play) purely. The accusations against Manchester City are why it\u2019s taking so long. Corporate fraud is a very serious accusation.<\/p>\n
“The board of directors would have to go. How can you be in a meeting room with other members of the Premier League and the Premier League itself, of whom you\u2019re a shareholder, with this accusation being proven?<\/p>\n
“If you take a look at what happened with Juventus in Serie A, their board had to resign when they were claiming things about player wages that were proven to be untrue. I think there\u2019s an honesty thing here, if Manchester City are proven to be guilty. And that could mean a complete restructure of the club.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/g><\/clippath><\/defs><\/svg>Content cannot be displayed without consent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chelsea have received their punishment but Manchester City are still waiting to see if they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}