With Manchester City facing 115 charges for allegedly breaching Premier League rules, the club is reportedly in danger of some drastic, and historic, punishments if found guilty.
The trial against City began on Monday this week, 18 months after the Premier League announced that it had charged the club with 115 breaches of its Financial Fair Play rules.
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With clubs such as Everton and Nottingham Forest having also been charged with FFP breaches over the past year and subsequently docked points last season, City's case has drawn widespread attention, with many anticipating the outcome of the proceedings that are now underway.
City are accused of failing to provide accurate financial information, among other things, over a nine-year period between 2009 and 2018.
Now, according to The Telegraph, Pep Guardiola's side is in danger of being thrown out of more than just the Premier if found guilty of the charges.
The publication indicates that the reigning English champions would also be at risk of being expelled from both the FA Cup and the Carabao Cup, while there is no certainty that they would be allowed to play in the UEFA Champions and the FIFA Club World Cup too.
Furthermore, it is understood that a number of Premier Leagues clubs believe that a one-off points deduction would not be sufficient punishment if City are found guilty, and their rivals would expect harsher sanctions.
It is also said, though, that there are concerns that expulsion from England's top flight would risk throwing English football into chaos should they be allowed to continue playing in the two domestic cups and the Champions League.
Worryingly for City, however, the regulations of the Carabao Cup and the FA Cup do raise the possibility of the Manchester club being exiled from football.
Clause 31 of the FA Cup rules, for example, states: "Where a club has been admitted to participate in the competition but is then removed from the league in which it competes (or its league fixtures are suspended), the Professional Game Board [PGB] may remove the club from the competition."
The PGB is made up of representatives of the Premier League and the English Football League.
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City have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and insist they have a "comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence" to support their stance, and "look forward to this matter being put to rest once and for all".