Relegation claim, Premier League next step, missing the point - Man City 115 charges verdict

Whichever way the axe falls next year, Manchester City will find themselves front and centre as their mammoth Financial Fair Play (FFP) charges verdict is revealed.

Throughout the process, City have maintained their innocence and stressed that they hold "irrefutable evidence which clears their name". Whether or not that is enough will be discovered imminently.

What is a clear source of comfort for the Blues and their supporters, though, is the confidence exuding from the Etihad Stadium. There has been no assumption that things might go wrong, when the three-person independent panel eventually speaks.

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Pep Guardiola has always spoken with supreme confidence about what he has heard from those above him. The main fear among City supporters is that it will not be enough, though, considering the Premier League's clear axe to grind and the fact they have been doing battle with each other for some time.

Here, our writers - and Guardiola - put forward their thoughts on the impending 115 charges case verdict.

I read something about how we need to be relegated immediately; 75 per cent of the clubs want it, because I know what they do behind the scenes and this sort of stuff.

I prefer not to be in that position but once it's there I love it - because you believe in your club and the people there. I believe what they say to me [about the alleged breaches] and the reasons why.

We're awaiting the sentence in February or March. What happens if we are relegated? I will be here.

I don't know the position they are going to bring us. The Conference?

But we will come up and come up and come back to