The club have been found guilty on all but one of the 115 charges, according to sources briefed on the matter who spoke anonymously as they were not authorised to do so publicly. Any official announcement from the Premier League is still awaited…
If a verdict is finally forthcoming, it will have taken more than 3 years since the club was charged by the Premier League for a 115 breaches of their financial rules stretching back over a number of years.
The likely verdict justifies the Premier League’s decision to launch an investigation after explosive allegations that City had routinely broken financial rules were first made in Der Spiegel in 2018 based on the Football Leaks documents.
Club representatives were told at a Premier League meeting on Thursday that a resolution in the long-running and highly damaging case had finally been reached. The Premier League will now decide suitable sanctions, which have been extensively speculated upon.
Manchester City are fully expected to appeal, which would potentially further extend the yawning chasm between the punishment and the crimes they have committed.