Man City 115 charges verdict 'imminent' as new hint dropped on official announcement date

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Manchester City could see a verdict on their 115 Premier League charges by Christmas according to their former financial advisor, who pointed the finger of blame for the drawn out saga.

City were charged by the Premier League back in the early stages of 2023 for allegedly breaching financial rules during a nine-year period that began in 2009 and ran up until 2018. The hearing begun over a year ago but no verdict has yet been made public.

During the period that City were alleged to have breached the rules they won the Premier League on three occasions - 2012, 2014 and 2018. Since that time Pep Guardiola has won it a further five times. City have continued to deny any wrongdoing and before the year is out an answer could finally be revealed.

The club's former advisor Stefan Borson told talkSPORT : "I think Simon thinks it's going to come out next year, I think it still could come out before Christmas. The decision has been imminent for quite some time, there's not a lot that they can do. It doesn't take that long."

City and their fans have had to deal with suggestions their dominance, which includes them winning the treble in 2023, is tainted whilst this hangs over the club.

Borson has also claimed that neither City, nor the Premier League, should be held responsible for the case dragging on for years, instead claiming the panel who decide on the verdict have allowed the saga to remain ongoing.

He said: "Well, look, nobody knows because even the parties themselves expected to have been told by now. All the lawyers are surprised there is no decision at this stage, and that's on both sides. I'll tell you who's holding it up - the panel making the decision. They hold the pen. They are the people who everybody waits for to deliver the decision.

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"Well, nobody knows. We know the long list - you can cobble it together from all of the people on the judicial panel - but we don't know who is on that list. We can make some guesses that it's probably two lawyers and maybe one accountant. But we don't know who is on the panel and what they were told to produce by when.

"We can now assume I think, given how long it has been and that everybody is so surprised that they don't have a decision, that actually there's very little guidance given to them and they weren't effectively paid for their time from the moment the case ended.

"Arguably the Premier and Manchester City together, with the panel, should have agreed a process whereby the hearing ends and then effectively they are exclusively paid to deliberate and produce, over let's say three months or at worst six months, the decision during the closed season."

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