City is set to face charges for violating the financial regulations of the Premier League, but the club is gearing up to contest the accusations. According to insights from Rob Wilson, the reigning European champions are poised to prolong the legal proceedings until the charges are eventually dismissed.

Following the recent points deductions imposed on Everton and Nottingham Forest earlier this season, there have been widespread calls for City to face severe penalties due to the multitude of breaches they are alleged to have committed.

Football finance expert Wilson, speaking to Grosvenor Sport, remarked, “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.”

The legal proceedings against City are expected to proceed later this year. Many have called for the club to face either relegation from the English top-flight or substantial points deductions if found guilty of violating the regulations.