Man City set to dodge new FFP rule despite facing 115 charges

By Kieran Maguire

12th Sep, 2023 | 11:08am

Kieran Maguire: Man City set to dodge new FFP rule despite facing 115 charges

The Premier League’s new rules to ‘fast-track’ FFP cases will not impact Man City or their 115 charges.

That is the view of finance expert Kieran Maguire, who exclusively told Football Insider that City’s cases span too far back to be impacted by new Premier League rules.

As reported by The Athletic, the Premier League have introduced new rules and regulations to fast-track Financial Fair Play cases against top-flight clubs.

Any investigations into finances will now have sanctions imposed before the end of the current season to provide ‘clarity’ overpoints deductions and punishments.

City have been charged with breaching financial regulations 115 times, while Everton are another club currently under investigation over their finances.

Neither City or Everton have been delivered a verdict for their charges, but could face retrospective punishment if found guilty.

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Maguire believes City’s cases will escape the new ‘fast-track’ rules because of the huge amount of time it will take to deal with 115 cases that date back to 2009.

The fast-track FFP disciplinary cases will have no consequence for Man City,” Maguire told Football Insider’s Sean Fisher

Those are designed to deal with issues arising in the most recent season and the charges against City go back to 2009.

Given that there is 115 charges and therefore 115 defences required, it will take both the prosecution and the defence team a sizeable amount of time to put together their cases both for and against the breaches.

I don’t see the changes having any impact whatsoever to those cases.

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