The charges leveled against Manchester City differ from those leveled against Everton last week.
According to a financial expert, Manchester City’s Financial Fair Play [FFP] dispute with the Premier League will take longer to resolve since it is “20 times” greater than Everton’s.
Everton were fined ten points for exceeding a three-year loss threshold of £105 million by £19.5 million. Meanwhile, the 115 claims leveled against City concern management payments, sponsorship funds, and a failure to cooperate with authorities. City has denied all claims leveled against them and has promised to clear its name.
Chelsea is also being investigated for possibly violating FFP regulations involving covert payments under Roman Abramovich’s ownership. At the time of writing, no charges have been filed against the club.
Dr Rob Wilson, Professor of Economics at Sheffield Business School, believes that in the circumstances of City and Chelsea, lawmakers must jump through many more hoops than in the case of Everton.
“The Everton case is much easier to decide upon compared to the cases with Chelsea and Manchester City because of the complexities involved in the latter cases,” he said in a statement. “Both Chelsea and Manchester City will be under fire and under the spotlight.”
“They’ll have their lawyers working overtime to generate as much paperwork as possible!” I read that the Everton case had roughly 28,000 pieces of paper, which you can double by four or five for Chelsea and ten or twenty for Man City!
“The Chelsea and City cases are much more complicated than the Everton one, and that’s why they’ll take so long.”
Everton has branded their point deduction “unjust” and plans to challenge the decision. City’s case will be reviewed by an independent panel, and club executives “look forward to this matter being put to rest once and for all,” according to a statement issued in February in response to the claims.