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Manchester City have been given a date when the club will hold the final hearing on its 115 Premier League posts, in what is the biggest breakthrough in 11 months in the case that will define English football for a generation.
Richard Masters, the Premier League’s chief executive, has revealed that a timetable has been agreed, the first announcement since the allegations were made through the Premier League in February 2023.
Telegraph Sport understands there will be progress next week, although it’s not exactly transparent. Neither side is willing to talk about any component of the case. According to the written reasons published in Everton’s Profitability and Sustainability Rules (PSR) case last year, arguments and arguments will most likely be presented across any of the aspects in the City’s case.
The case is being examined through an independent committee, appointed through Murray Rosen KC, chairman of the Premier League’s Judicial Panel, which will announce its resolution to either party on the proposed date. All resolutions of the independent committees are announced on the Premier League website. Most likely, both sides, City and the Premier League, will be informed before the resolution is published; The deadline for notice of the parties is never revealed.
In the case of Everton’s recent breach of the PSR, the case ended with a four-day hearing that ended on October 20, after months of legal back-and-forth. The independent commission in charge of the case issued its verdict on November 27.
Masters revealed on Tuesday that a date has been set for “proceedings” in the City case. He denied rumours that the three-time winners (and Premier League champions in five of the last six seasons) had a preferential remedy over Everton.
“These are very different charges,” Masters told MPs as a parliamentary committee drew comparisons to Everton, who face sanctions twice in the same season, while City are still awaiting a hearing after being charged last February.
The “volume and character” of the case against City is “completely different”, Masters said. This came a day after Everton and Nottingham Forest were accused of breaching the Premier League’s PSR during the most recent three-year monitoring period, up to and adding up the 2022-23 financial results.
“If any club, whether champions or not, had been found to have breached the spending rule for the year 2023, they would be in exactly the same position as Everton or Nottingham Forest,” Masters told Cultura. Media and Sports Committee.
“But the volume and nature of the charges against Manchester City, of which I obviously cannot communicate anything, are heard in a completely different atmosphere. A date has been set for this procedure. Unfortunately, I can’t say when that will happen, but it’s making progress.
The volume of overspending admitted at Forest and Everton last season is particularly less difficult to unravel than the City case. The latter benefits from an exemption from the Premier League regulations that allows for “the maximum number of exceptional cases” to avoid a new rule that stipulates that a solution will have to be found within 12 weeks of setting a fee.
Unlike the two cases against Everton that span a total of four years, City’s catalogue of allegations spans 14 seasons from 2009 to 2010. If proven, it would amount to one of the most serious regulatory breaches in the history of English football.
Dame Caroline Dinenage, chair of the CMS committee, also called for a progress report on the Premier League’s investigation into Chelsea’s transfer deals in the Roman Abramovich era. Chelsea have yet to be charged with breaching Premier League rules.
“As far as Chelsea are concerned, the new owners of Chelsea have passed data to the FA, UEFA and the Premier League about the previous owners and we are still investigating this,” Masters said. “We won’t pronounce the final results until we’ve finished those investigations. “
Masters and Football League chairman Rick Parry was summoned to Parliament to explain why the leagues had not announced the so-called “New Deal for Football” after years of negotiations.
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