The Premier League chief executive remarks on the hearing date two days before clubs play at City Ground in the most recent Nottingham Forest news from NottinghamshireLive.
A significant update on the 115 accusations Manchester City is facing for suspected violations of the Premier League’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) laws has been provided by Premier League CEO Richard Masters.
The announcement coincides with the delivery of an appeal ruling about the Reds’ own point suspension for breaking player expenditure regulations, and occurs just two days before Nottingham Forest takes on the title-chasers at the City Ground.
Masters said at a European Leagues press conference in London that a hearing regarding City’s appeal would occur in the “near future,” although he did not specify when.
“We can’t comment on the case; the date has been set,” he continued. The matter will eventually come to an end on its own.
Masters has previously said unequivocally that the breaches that resulted in point deductions for Forest and Everton this season are not the same as the situation involving the treble winners.
“They are very different charges,” he said in January to a parliamentary select committee. Any club, current champions or not, would be in the exact same situation as Nottingham Forest or Everton if they had been found in violation of the spending guidelines for 2023.
The nature and extent of the accusations made against Man City—which I am not allowed to discuss at all—are being heard in a totally different setting. A date has been established for such procedure.