Man City were charged with 115 alleged breaches of the Premier League financial rules back in 2023.
Amie Wilson Central Audience Writer
18:36, 25 Nov 2025Updated 18:55, 25 Nov 2025
A new update has been given on the 115 charges put to Man City – over two years ago. (Image: Alex Livesey – UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images)
Liverpool could discover the outcome of Manchester City’s 115 charges case by Christmas, at least according the club’s former financial advisor, Stefan Borson. City were charged by the Premier League with 115 alleged breaches of financial rules back in 2023.
The club have strongly denied the charges. But after a long wait, an outcome may not be too far away, according to Borson.
Speaking on radio station talkSPORT, he told Jim White and Simon Jordan: “I think Simon thinks it’s going to come out next year. I think it still could come out before Christmas.
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“The decision has been imminent for some time, there’s not a lot that they can do. It doesn’t take that long.”
Earlier in the conversation, the football financial expert added: “Well, look, no-one 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 – that’s the panel making the decision. They hold the pen. They are the people who everybody waits for to deliver the decision.
“Well, nobody knows. We know the long list – and 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’s 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 everyone 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 League and Man 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.”
Should Man City be found guilty, then punishments could range from a significant fine to a huge points deduction, or even them being expelled from the Premier League.
The alleged charges are for a nine-year period spanning from 2009 to 2018.
A guilty verdict would also raise questions over if City should be stripped of titles won. Liverpool were up against Pep Guardiola’s side for a number of seasons, running them close in several title races.
City being stripped of their titles may raise the question of if they would instead be awarded to Liverpool.
However, it must be stressed, once again, that City deny all charges put forward against them.