LEAGUE CAN'T AFFORD FOR CITY VERDICT TO DRAG ON

Credibility of process will be questioned

- By Andy Dunn

TOMORROW will mark six months since the independent commission received the final submissions in the hearing into the 115 charges against Manchester City.

Those charges were first laid in February 2023.

After the commission went away to consider its verdicts, City have, understandably, carried on regardless. Business as usual.

In fact, it has been business as usual... and then some.

With a £46.3million deal for AC Milan midfielder Tijjani Reijnders agreed, City's spending on new recruits in 2025 will go past the £200m mark.

When negotiating contracts for their clients, did the agents of Omar Marmoush, Nico Gonzalez, Abdukodir Khusanov, Vitor Reis and Reijnders ask about the impending verdicts on the allegations that City breached Premier League regulations?