Manchester City Will Drag Their 115 FFP Charges Till They Are Forgotten – Finance Expert

Manchester City may avoid punishment for their 115 financial fair play charges, an expert has said. Football finance expert, Wilson recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.

According to him, he believes Manchester City will drag the case too long that the footballing world will begin to forget about it little by little.

Wilson added that the treble winners are richer than the EPL, so they have the best lawyers and accountants to buy them some time.

His words, “I think we will get the first sight of Manchester City’s legal proceedings in the autumn, but that will be when the case starts, not when it finishes. Manchester City are richer than the Premier League and therefore will buy the best lawyers and the best accountants to try and get them out of this situation. It will probably last years and years and years if indeed it ever gets resolved.

Manchester City will wrap the Premier League up in so much litigation that it will just become boring and laborious and I think it will fizzle out. That’s the kind of travesty with it when you take Everton, Forest and potentially Leicester they are single breaches being dealt with quite quickly.

You need to multiply that by 115. If it takes three months to do one charge, you know, just 115 multiplied by three and you start to get a sense of the scale of what’s going on. The Nottingham Forest verdict report was 25,000 words so 25,000 words multiplied by 115, that’s a lot of writing and a lot of paperwork to get through. I think ultimately that’s why it’s taken so long. It looks like we might never reach a conclusion just by the scale of it.

It could become financially too risky for the Premier League to continue. If we boil 115 charges down there are probably 30 to 35 that are really serious relating to overspending. I wouldn’t be surprised if they start to resolve some of the other charges that are on the outskirts of the main case.”