Football finance expert refuses to rule out Manchester City relegation

Dan Plumley says it's difficult to judge what happens in the light of Everton's 10 point deduction

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00:00 really important that if we're going to start to put these sanctions in place that the real-time

00:05 aspect of that becomes critical because that might hurt in the short term but it can save a lot of

00:11 chaos in the long term because now you're in a situation with Everton where you've got

00:15 potentially clubs claiming against that for years gone by so that real-time aspect of reporting

00:20 becomes really important and the City one is obviously linked to you know a bigger time period

00:26 which is why it's taking so long as well so I don't think anything is fully off the table

00:31 but it's how that case plays out it's how the mitigating circumstances play out it's how

00:36 Manchester City then react to that and put their defence forward that will determine the overall

00:42 verdict but it is very much within the Premier League and the Independent Commission's power

00:49 if you like in that regard if you look at who's holding the power there to deliver those sanctions

00:53 The question we don't know yet is what sanctions they will deliver.