Man City legal case could get out of control says:

Christian Purslow - former board member at Chelsea, Liverpool and Villa:


"It's a sort of 'where does this end?' because if you look at every single season - the nine seasons which we now know Manchester City breached rules - then all of their 19 Premier League rivals in that season, to differing extents, suffered easy-to-compute loss. Whether it was a place in the Premier League - every place was worth £3m.

"Teams that came fifth who didn't make the Champions League maybe lost tens of millions of pounds - and of course teams that were relegated. Let's say the team that finished 18th would've finished 17th if Manchester City weren't there. And they, of course, suffered huge loss.

"If you add all those claims up, over nine years, and that's just in the Premier League, you can see that the potential here for this to spiral out of control is huge.

"I really hope that common sense prevails here and that there is a comprehensive solution between the authorities and Manchester City that looks at all these issues and tries to draw a line in the sand.

"Because a never-ending waterfall of legal claims and uncertainties for another four or five years would be absolutely appalling for the game."

Football law expert Paul Kilroy KC has said four clubs have put in protective claims "reserving the right to claim compensation if City are found guilty".

This could go mad! As has been suggested even teams relegated could argue they were effected. We finished 18th in one of the seasons covered by the breach. If Man City had finished below us we would have stayed up. Tan will be getting his legal team on it tonight!!!

This’ll put us back into court for a compo claim then.

This’ll put us back into court for a compo claim then.

Just like other clubs wil be doing so no one can have a go at club for doing so! Or will people expect club to simply stay quiet and say it didn't concern us?

Christian Purslow - former board member at Chelsea, Liverpool and Villa:


"It's a sort of 'where does this end?' because if you look at every single season - the nine seasons which we now know Manchester City breached rules - then all of their 19 Premier League rivals in that season, to differing extents, suffered easy-to-compute loss. Whether it was a place in the Premier League - every place was worth £3m.

"Teams that came fifth who didn't make the Champions League maybe lost tens of millions of pounds - and of course teams that were relegated. Let's say the team that finished 18th would've finished 17th if Manchester City weren't there. And they, of course, suffered huge loss.

"If you add all those claims up, over nine years, and that's just in the Premier League, you can see that the potential here for this to spiral out of control is huge.

"I really hope that common sense prevails here and that there is a comprehensive solution between the authorities and Manchester City that looks at all these issues and tries to draw a line in the sand.

"Because a never-ending waterfall of legal claims and uncertainties for another four or five years would be absolutely appalling for the game."

Ned this is what I was reading plus other comments regarding consequences... plus today their chairman is sticking to them being innocent and judging by statement won't lie down an accept decision or punishment that may come.

This’ll put us back into court for a compo claim then.

Just like other clubs wil be doing so no one can have a go at club for doing so! Or will people expect club to simply stay quiet and say it didn't concern us?

It was only meant as tongue in cheek mate. As Vinny has had many slaughterings over the court cases to date. I might have misjudged the mood.