A general view of Manchester City's Etihad Stadium
Manchester City should be hit with 20-point deductions in all of the next nine seasons following their financial breaches.
That's the view of talkSPORT's Danny Mills amid ongoing discussions over what the club's sanction should be for the historic charges.
An exterior view of Manchester City's Etihad Stadium3
There is a wide range of possible sanctions against City after they were found guilty of numerous financial breaches
As revealed on Friday, City have been found guilty on almost all of the 115 charges that they have faced for breaching financial rules in the Premier League.
talkSPORT understands that City will launch an appeal once there is official confirmation that the charges have gone against them.
It's also understood that past and current Premier League clubs are considering collective league action against them for compensation.
As things stand, the sanctions remain undecided and all possibilities, including relegation, significant fines and being stripped of titles, are on the table.
How many points should City have deducted?
The charges span from 2009 to 2018, during which time City won the 2011/12, 2013/14 and 2017/18 Premier League titles.
And Mills believes the sanction should mirror that nine-year period, a combined total of 180 points, with the club's future title hopes taking a hit as a result.
"People are talking about relegating them to the EFL - we know that they're two separate competitions, two separate bodies," the former England international explained on talkSPORT Breakfast.
"I just heard from a fan, 'It would be great for the EFL'. No it wouldn't. City would bounce straight back immediately, which means instead of two spots available for (automatic) promotion (from the Championship), there would only be one.
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"You're only going to play Manchester City twice that season, so you're not going to make huge revenue. You've only got 20,000 people in your stadium, one sell-out is not going to change your whole season in any way, shape or form.
"You go to City, you're not going to get any money there anyway because it's all home gate receipts.
Pep Guardiola with the trophy after the Premier League match between Manchester City and West Ham United3
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"I was listening over the last few days and I think, once everything has settled, realistically the only way going forward to do this is to maybe look at every season that they allegedly cheated.
"Every season they have cheated, give them a massive points deduction for every season going forward.
"So if they cheated for nine years, give them a 20-point deduction for the next nine years and see how that goes, see where they get to in that.
"There is no fair and just system, because it's going so far back retrospectively, and it's going to be very, very difficult because other clubs are going to then complain that they lost out and got relegated, how do you work that out?"
Former City chairman also joined talkSPORT on Sunday and insisted that financial sanctions would not be enough of a punishment.
"We're talking about a club with limitless pockets – money doesn't mean very much as we saw in the last transfer window – and whether it's [a fine of] £100m, £200m, that would not be sufficient.
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"Unfortunately – I say all of these things with great sorrow, I really do, as a fan – I think there has to be something that will affect their league status.
"And if it was to be a points deduction, it depends on timing. Because if it was today, with the season just a few games in, and the points deduction had to be something that was terminal as far as their Premier League status was concerned, I worked out you'd have to have something like 80 points deducted, which would mean the club could not recover this season and would go down.
"But if this happens at the end of the season, because of the appeals and so on, it's a different kettle of fish, and then you may be talking about an automatic relegation – to which division I don't know.
"I think it does depend partly on the timing."