City should in theory be shitting their pants right now. But have a feeling nothing will happen.

For those that dont follow the championship where this has occurred a few times, the sentence almost always gets halved on appeal, so the end deduction will be more like 5 points.

This is overdoing it from the league I think but it is worth understanding why they’ve faced a punishment after a much shorter investigation than City who are obviously yet to face any kind of punishment.

Everton’s case is black and white. They’ve been transparent and cooperative in providing the league with information to support the investigation. Everton had to do this; they don’t have the security of position in the league to fight a battle over years because by the time the I bbc estivation ended, they could have already been relegated. Further to this, they don’t have the financial clout to battle as well as City can. Whether they won or lost their battle, it’s too much risk.

City’s investigation, meanwhile, has more layers to it. Their investigation isn’t into the plain number of money lost, it’s into how City have covered potentially higher losses and how they’ve circumvented FFP by allowing them to pay players and staff beyond what FFP allows by having a subsidiary pay half of their wages. This is harder to prove, is more complex and potentially, much more serious. If Everton can get 10 points for this then City could face expulsion.

If I had to guess what’s going to happen, if City are found guilty, is that they’ll face a 5-year-plus expulsion from the Premier League. The EFL, seeing that their competition is diminished by a member club being unable to achieve promotion, would likely expel City as well for a year. Meaning, by the time City could theoretically reach the top flight again, their expulsion would be over. Whether City will be found guilty is obviously another question entirely but the punishment has been clearly outlined now and the reckoning has to increase based on number of counts. A points deduction won’t suffice for City.

Everton are just lucky that it’s come this season where they look comfortably better than most of the bottom half. It has opened a can of worms I don’t know if the league can be bothered with though regarding clubs who have been relegated due to the late ruling.

Looking forward to Everton’s enthusiastic lobbying for the new regulator just to piss of the premier league.

Given how bad the newly promoted teams are this season, Everton will survive.

obligatory comment about those Man City crooks, even though this has nothing to do with them

Absolutely crooked league. It’s clear there is City favoured corruption

I’m no everton fan but this is wrong on so many levels.

Tbf they are actually lucky in a way that its come this season, this has been hanging over them for a while and any other season this will have relegated them without doubt but with the strength of the bottom 3 this year they have a decent chance.

City and Chelsea next then?

Good to see big clubs being fucked the way the rest of us are. Might now actually incentivise change

Fucking sickening news this. Man City need to be fucking relegated and stripped of all their titles now if this is the case

What about Man City?

I think some people need to realise that it takes a lot more time to investigate 115 charges. I fully believe city should receive the heaviest possible punishment and I also know full well they are going to get away with it, but it’s not surprising that Everton took less time to investigate. It’s still disgusting that Everton are getting a 10 point deduction while city will probably get off with a bogus fine, but still

Hopefully this will shine the spotlight back on Man City.