Man City 115 FFP charges latest amid current PSR status claim and Rodri future 'pledge'

Day three of Manchester City's hearing against the Premier League will commence shortly with updates already coming to light. City are alleged to have breached financial rules spread across a nine-year period between 2009 and 2018 - although the club irrefutably deny any wrongdoing.

Across the last 48 hours, numerous lawyers - and some big name ones - have been spotted arriving to the secret location of the hearing in London. And that is likely to be the case for the coming weeks with the case unlikely to end until late-November - at the earliest - with a final verdict tipped to arrive in 2025.

With proceedings underway, numerous experts have delivered verdicts on City's potential punishments and the knock-on impact of what significant sanctions might bring. Based on that, European heavyweights seem to have taken a keen interest in the case with Real Madrid watching on closely.

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In the meantime, City will be preparing for their first Champions League clash of the season against Inter Milan. Here are the latest headlines from the Etihad Stadium and beyond;

City have been sent a clear FFP charges update by former legal advisor Stefan Borso with their hearing against the Premier League having now begun.

"I suspect there's no PSR issue in the near term," he said to Football Insider. "Clearly, that would change if they were unsuccessful in the 115 situation. If they were, let's say relegated, then clearly that's going to change everything. But if that doesn't happen then I think they've got a lot of capacity on PSR."

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