If Manchester City is found guilty of their Financial Fair Play violations, they could lose a whopping number of points, according to a finance expert. The team is currently awaiting the Premier League winners’ verdict, which Pep Guardiola anticipates will be made public sometime in March, following the conclusion of their 12-week hearing into their alleged offenses back in December.
Many people are anxiously awaiting the potential date to find out if the Citizens will be punished for their alleged misdemeanors, which go back to 2009. Expert Kieran Maguire has listed the potential penalties that the Etihad team may face if they are found guilty, including a significant deduction.
City At Risk of 60-100 Point Deduction
Maguire claims that the champions may also get hit with a fine
Speaking on the Tear Us Apart YouTube channel, Maguire discussed the City case in length and clarified that, in spite of the exaggerated numbers, the Premier League team could only be charged with three things.
Because A: there are 130 charges, it is somewhat strange that the number 115 has now entered folklore. And B: in reality, there are just three,” the specialist explained.
“The three accusations allege that the owners of Manchester City poured cash into the team and passed it off as sponsorship revenue. Second, although Manchester City has been paying their employees, they have done so via a third party. The third is that the Premier League has not received any cooperation from Manchester City.
Maguire continued by saying that Guardiola’s team would receive a more severe penalty than Everton and Nottingham Forest did the previous season if found guilty. Forest was docked four points for noncompliance with FFP, while the Toffees received two deductions but were able to have the total points lowered on appeal.
Regarding what City would lose in terms of points, Maguire proposed that it might be a huge amount:
Therefore, if proven guilty, there must be a point deduction. Probably a fine would be reasonable for non-cooperation. I believe a point deduction is in the cards. between sixty and one hundred points.
City would now be on -19 points, 20 points below Southampton, the next-highest team, if they were to get a 60-point deduction. They would need to win all of their remaining games and hope that the current bottom four teams—Southampton, Ipswich, Leicester, and Wolves—do not accumulate any more points for the remainder of the season, since they would be 38 points out of safety with 14 league games left.
