I think the Citeh one is going to be a challenge, I can almost imagine some sort of plea bargain to make it all go away & start with a clean slate (given the amount of charges & the time its going to take to go through them one by one) but to make that happen Citeh will have to admit that for at least some of the charges they broke the rules & they don't seem prepared to do that-

Ultimately the powers that be are going to want to punish Citeh in a way that reflects suitably with any financial breaches that they can prove but they are not going to want to publicly castigate one of their golden geese.

As an outsider its easy to casually sit here & think - they broke the rules for a long period of time they should be relegated, titles & cups stripped, transfer embargo etc etc etc, but honestly I cant see it being that drastic -

when its all said & done it will probably end up with City starting a new season in the PL with a -20 points deduction & some public statements from both sides claiming that most of it was a misunderstanding of the ways that rules were applied at the time & how both parties still love each other & want to put the whole unfortunate saga to bed so that everyone can get on with enjoying the new season -

In my view, all judgements in these cases should be applied in the summer before the next season. So either they relegate a team, or deduct points this should be applied to the coming season before it starts. No mid-season points deductions.

This would be much fairer for everyone.

It's not a level playing field ( Citeh ), spend on lawyers and potentially evade punishment.

The PL will protects it's product.

Fairly clear both Everton and Forest rolled the dice and lost.

Lots of talk about Chelsea being next

I will take anything that helps Palace maintain PL status

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

They will only have lost if they get relegated this season. One of them won’t be and there’s a chance neither will be. They both overspent last season and stayed up by four or fewer points. You could argue they’ve already won as without spending they’d have been relegated. Four or six point deductions is not an adequate deterrent and other teams will gamble on spending to stay up.

I get the point but it means that the fans wont understand why one club gets treated differently to another and then we suspect the process.

I would prefer a simple tariff system after all fans should be able to understand the rules.

You then need to ensure that the tariff system doesn't reward rule breaking.

One more point

This would be the most significant factor.

And it also suggests their legal advice is: you did it and any defence has no prospect of success. Mea culpa and acts of mitigation and they are likely to be treated much better than Man City who appear to have sought to cock-a-snoop, resist and ride their luck.

But they should still be penalised in a way that genuinely hurts. You can't help but feel that Boehly has bought himself a pig in a poke.