Lawyer who defeated Man City has already given his verdict on 115 charges relegation

This apical sports lawyer who precocious bushed Manchester City has present had his accidental astir their imaginable menace of relegation arsenic they look 115 counts of breaching the Premier League’s FFP rules

Sports lawyer Nick de Marco KC believes Manchester City shouldn't beryllium relegated if recovered blameworthy of immoderate of their 115 fiscal charges.

The 57-year-old represented ex-City defender Benjamin Mendy arsenic helium won the bulk of his £11million claim for unpaid wages against his erstwhile nine earlier this month. Mendy took City to a two-day employment tribunal successful Manchester, claiming that they had wrongly stopped his £500,000-a-month salary aft helium was charged with enactment offences and remanded successful custody successful August 2021.

While helium acted for Mendy to bushed the Manchester club, the sports instrumentality barrister astatine Blackstone Chambers antecedently made wide that helium doesn't deliberation they should beryllium punished with demotion if they extremity up connected the incorrect broadside of the verdict successful their FFP hearing.

"In my view, things arsenic important arsenic promotion and relegation should beryllium determined connected the pitch," De Marco admitted, speaking to The Times.

"It spoils the crippled for it to beryllium determined by radical similar me; lawyers, accountants and ex-lawyers, who are arbitrators, proceeding ineligible arguments down closed doors. I'm going to marque my wealth retired of it, that's my business. But I don't needfully deliberation it's right."

Another imaginable punishment, a points deduction, which person been faced by Everton and Nottingham Forest previously, was besides unopen down by De Marco. "As a shot fan, I truly bash deliberation points deductions should beryllium the precise past happening radical look astatine for breaches,” helium continued.

"Yet it's becoming a regular starting constituent and I bash deliberation that spoils a batch of the amusive and amusement of the game. I tin spot the statement for points deductions, due to the fact that they tin beryllium the champion mode to redress a sporting vantage fixed the evident flaws with fiscal penalties.

"If you are a precise affluent proprietor - intent connected conscionable spending thing successful breach of the rules - you're not going to interest excessively overmuch astir fiscal penalty, but I inactive deliberation constituent deductions should beryllium a past resort."

City’s charges were presented by the Premier League successful 2023, but the ongoing backstage proceeding didn’t commence until this September. No accusation has been made publically disposable from said hearing, arsenic it is to beryllium completed successful private.

It is expected to decorativeness successful aboriginal December, having gone connected for 9 weeks retired of an estimated 10, but a verdict is not expected until the extremity of the season.

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