Man City handed nightmare points deduction verdict ahead of 130 charges outcome

Manchester City are waiting to learn their fate after facing 130 charges of alleged Premier League financial rule breaches – a number risen from the initial 115 charges – with a points deduction, potential title stripping and even relegation among the potential punishments

Manchester City have been warned they could face a points deduction as high as 100 POINTS if found guilty of alleged Premier League financial rule breaches.

D-day is getting closer for the club in their long battle with the Premier League, as Pep Guardiola acknowledged earlier this month. Speaking on February 7, he declared: “In one month, I think there will be a verdict and the sentence.”

The independent commission that heard the charges between September and December last year has unlimited power to punish the City, including deducting points, relegations and stripping titles.

Points deductions are, of course, a precedent for far more minor charges faced by Everton and Nottingham Forest, docked eight and four points last season respectively for breaching Premier League profit and sustainability rules.

Now, football finance expert Kieran Maguire has addressed potential punishments. Speaking on the Tear Us Apart podcast, he said:

Appearing on the Tear Us Apart podcast, football finance expert Kieran Maguire addressed the potential punishment. “It has to be a points deduction – if found guilty,” he said. “We are looking at a points deduction somewhere in the region of 60 to 100 points.”

“The other thing that would happen is that the board of directors at Manchester City effectively would be proven to be liars and misrepresenting the state of the football club to the authorities; I don’t see how they can keep their jobs. Certainly we saw in the case of Juventus, who have done something similar [to what City are charged with] that the whole board of directors had to resign.”

As alluded to by Maguire, the entire Juventus board, including president Andrea Agnelli and vice-president Pavel Nedved, resigned in November 2022 ahead of the Italian club receiving a 15-point deduction the following January. That ultimately became a 10-point penalty.

City’s board comprises chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak, Martin Edelman, Simon Pearce, John MacBeath, Alberto Galassi and Abdulla Khouri. The club vehemently denies all 130 charges.

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