The former Manchester City chairman, David Bernstein, says that his old club need to be punished with more than fines if it is confirmed they were in breach of financial regulations. City’s chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak protested his club’s “innocence” again this weekend following reports that they had been found guilty of the overwhelming majority of the charges. City are expected to appeal.
There has been no indication of potential sanctions yet but these include fines, points deductions, expulsion from the Premier League and transfer bans. “I would first of all say that financial penalties will not be enough,” Bernstein told The Sunday Edition on talkSPORT. "We're talking about a club with limitless pockets – money doesn't mean very much as we saw in the last transfer window. Whether it's (a fine of) £100m, £200m, that would not be sufficient.
"Unfortunately, I say all of these things with great sorrow, I really do as a fan, I think there has to be something that will affect their league status.
"And if it was to be a points deduction, it depends on timing. Because if it was today, with the season just a few games in, and the points deduction had to be something that was terminal as far as their Premier League status was concerned (ie leading to relegation), I worked out you'd have to have something like 80 points deducted, which would mean the club could not recover this season and would go down.
“But if this happens at the end of the season, because of the appeals and so on, it's a different kettle of fish, and then you may be talking about an automatic relegation – to which division I don't know. I think it does depend partly on the timing.” @talkSPORT
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