Man City have been in an ongoing legal battle with the Premier League after they were hit with 100-plus financial charges.
Pep Guardiola in a press conference.
Pep Guardiola is still awaiting the outcome of Man City's ongoing legal battle.
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Manchester City's former financial advisor Stefan Borson says that the Blues might discover the result of their legal tussle with the Premier League by Christmas after they were hit with charges for supposedly breaching 115 financial regulations back in early 2023.
Pep Guardiola's squad have, vehemently, rejected any misconduct and have been locked in a protracted legal fight with the top-flight's governing body for considerable time. City were accused by the Premier League of supposedly breaching financial rules across a nine-year span from 2009 to 2018.
Newcastle United - alongside the rest of English football - are still waiting for a verdict despite their independent hearing occurring a year ago.
No public verdict has been delivered by an independent commission and Borson - who has previously suggested City could face relegation if they are found guilty - reckons a judgement might be revealed by Christmas this year.
Speaking on talkSPORT with Jim White and Simon Jordan, the club's former financial adviser Borson said: "I think Simon thinks it's going to come out next year, I think it still could come out before Christmas.
"The decision has been imminent for quite some time, there's not a lot that they can do. It doesn't take that long."
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Man City are still awaiting a verdict on the 115 charges they face.
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Borson previously suggested the independent commission, not City or the Premier League, were to blame for the delay after the hearing commenced 14 months ago. He said: "Well, look, nobody knows because even the parties themselves expected to have been told by now. All the lawyers are surprised there's no decision at this stage, and that's on both sides.
"I'll tell you who's holding it up - and 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 - so 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 and Manchester 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."
Guardiola's team were also embroiled in a dispute with the Premier League on regulations governing associated party transactions (APT), but reached a resolution earlier this year. City acknowledged the regulations were valid and binding, before both parties agreed to end legal proceedings in September.