英超联赛高管要求严厉处罚曼城，曼城方面坚称自己‘无罪’。由于曼城被认定违反财务规定超过100项，英超联赛将面临来自其竞争对手的压力，要求对其实施处罚，导致其长时间无法留在顶级联赛。
Premier League executives pushing for severe punishment City maintain they are ‘innocent of the accusations’ The Premier League will face pressure from Manchester City’s rivals to push for a sanction that will result in a prolonged absence from the top flight after the club were found guilty of more than 100 charges of financial rule breaking.
多家英超俱乐部的高管告诉《卫报》，鉴于独立委员会所称的曼城‘伪装融资计划’和‘虚假商业交易’的严重性，仅仅扣分让曼城降级一个赛季是远远不够的；这些行为使曼城在2009年至2018年间虚增收入9亿英镑。
Executives at a number of Premier League clubs have told the Guardian that a points deduction that would relegate City to the Championship for a single season would be insufficient given the scale of what an independent commission described as the club’s “disguised funding scheme” and “sham commercial deals”, which enabled them to artificially inflate their income by £900m between 2009 and 2018.