Premier League vs Manchester City: What’s the trial on 115 charges about?
Al Jazeera
What happens if City lose? Will Guardiola and Haaland really leave the club? Will the champions lose their title? Al Jazeera explains.
It has been a long wait, but the independent hearing into Manchester City’s alleged 115 breaches of Premier League financial regulations is finally beginning.
In what British media are describing as the “sports trial of the century”, a three-person commission will start on Monday to sift through reams of evidence for an estimated 10 weeks with a verdict expected some time before the end of the current season.
Since a 2008 takeover by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the United Arab Emirates royal family, City have been transformed from also-rans into the Premier League’s dominant force.
Eight of the club’s 10 league titles have come in the past 13 seasons, plus a first and only Champions League in 2023.
They stand accused of bending financial rules while on the rise to their current status.
