Manchester City could be whacked with a monster 60 point deduction if found guilty of their 115 FFP breaches and a verdict is coming BEFORE the season ends, according to a bombshell claim.
The Premier League champions were charged back in February 2023. Three years on. Still no conclusion. Still no punishment. Still no nothing.
But Colombian journalist Cesar Augusto Londono who has one million followers on X has dropped a grenade. He says City will learn their fate in the coming weeks, not months. And it’s gonna hurt.
“Manchester City would be sanctioned with a deduction of 60 points for 115 breaches,” he wrote. “The official announcement will be made before the end of the season. This sanction would take the club to last place and condemned to relegation.”
Sixty. Points.
That’s not a slap on the wrist. That’s a nuclear bomb.
Add a zero
Talk of a 60 point hammering isn’t new. Last month, football finance boffin Kieran Maguire floated the same number on The Overlap. And his maths was brutal.
“Everton and Forest got six and four point deductions for a single offence over three years,” Maguire said. “City’s case covers nine years. Far bigger. You have to add a zero to what we’ve seen. Somewhere between 40 and 60 points on merit, to be consistent, makes a lot of logic.”
Consistent? The Premier League? Now that would be a first.
If Londono is right, City would crash to bottom of the table on ONE point. Relegation confirmed. Champions to Championship in one afternoon. Proper humbling.
Dunne loses patience
Former City captain Richard Dunne has had enough of the delays. He’s not defending the charges, just sick of the silence.
“It’s been ridiculous already,” Dunne told Goal. “The amount of time it’s dragged on. They’ve come to a conclusion a long time ago, so why it’s taken so long to get around to giving out the results is stupid.”
He’s got a point. Three years. 115 charges. Still nothing.
Dunne also warned the Prem are wrecking their own product.
“It undermines the whole Premier League if they come out now at this stage of the season. You’ve got a real interesting title race over the next couple of months. They’re ruining their own competition.”
His solution? Wait until summer.
“Best left until the summer. Let them work out what they’re going to do going forward rather than retrospectively. For everybody from Man City, it’ll be a relief just to get it dealt with. Let them be what they are, deal with whatever comes, and get back to focusing purely on football.”
What happens now?
If the Prem really drop a 60 point bomb before May, the title race loses one of its biggest names. Relegation battle gets rewritten. TV deals, sponsorship, Champions League money all up in smoke.
And City? They’d be playing at Rotherham on a Tuesday night.
Londono has one million followers. He’s not some random bloke in a pub. But until the Premier League actually speaks, this is still speculation. Loud speculation. Painful speculation.
For City fans, the waiting game continues. For everyone else? Grab the popcorn. This could get very messy.
