Premier League chief executive Richard Masters has said that his frustration over the delay in the Manchester City case is "irrelevant" and everyone "will have to be patient."
The Premier League issued more than 100 charges against City in February 2023 related to alleged breaches of its financial rules and allegedly failing to cooperate with the investigation. The case was referred to an independent commission.
City have always denied any allegations.
The case was heard by a commission between September and December last year, but no decision has been published.
Masters has said: “I mean, it’s an independent judiciary, essentially. So once the allegations, the charge has been put forward, they go before an independent panel, which is independently selected, and they are then in charge of the process and its timings.
“They hear the case, they decide the outcome, and we have no influence over that, over it or its timing.
“And that’s right, if you think from an independence point of view, that there is independent people making those decisions, and we just have to be waiting.
“My frustration is irrelevant, really. I mean, I just have to wait, and legal processes rarely take less time than you anticipated, but we have to be patient.”