Manchester City’s 115 charges hearing involving Premier League to be cut short | OneFootball

The hearing into Manchester City’s 115 charges issued by the Premier League over alleged breaches of financial rules will reportedly not last the full 10 weeks.

Proceedings looking into Manchester City’s 115 charges for alleged breaches began in the middle of September, after the Premier League champions were first charged and referred to the independent commission back in February 2023 following a four-year investigation.

In a stance maintained by the Etihad Stadium club since that date, Manchester City strongly deny all charges issued, and have also insisted that their case is supported by a “comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence”.

From the side of the Premier League, the top-flight claim that City breached rules requiring the club to provide “accurate financial information that gives a true and fair view of the club’s financial position”, as well as not co-operating.

The private hearing between City and the Premier League is currently being held at the International Dispute Resolution Centre in the city of London, and reports from the time of the hearing starting suggested that proceedings were expected to last around 10 weeks.

However, a new report has indicated that that will not be the case, and that the closing of the matter in front of the panel will happen sooner than the anticipated timeframe.

According to the information of Manchester City insider ‘Tolmie’s Hairdoo’ on X, the Premier League champions’ hearing into the 115 charges ‘will not go the full 10 weeks’, after that period of time was originally blocked out by all parties involved.

The reasons for the hearing being cut short remain unknown at this stage, with proceedings and all developments from the capital remaining undisclosed and private until both sides are happy for the findings to be made public information.

In a separate matter brought to the Premier League by Manchester City, a verdict on a battle over associated party transaction rules was reached earlier this year, with the conclusions made public earlier this month.

From the perspective of Manchester City, the Etihad Stadium club are now understood to have had some complaints upheld, with two aspects of the associated party transaction rules deemed ‘unlawful’ by a tribunal.

But from the viewpoint of the Premier League, they state that the tribunal rejected the majority of Manchester City’s challenges and “endorsed the overall objectives, framework and decision-making of the APT system”.