Man City 115 charges: Keith Wyness stunned by ‘staggering’ development
Everton’s former chief Keith Wyness has insisted Man City will have the right to appeal any verdict in their FFP case despite “staggering” recent comments.
Speaking on the new edition of Football Insider’s Inside Track podcast, the 66-year-old – who served as CEO at Goodison Park between 2004 and 2009 and now runs a football consultancy advising elite clubs – hit out after an independent committee rejected Nottingham Forest’s appeal against a four-point deduction.
After rejecting Forest’s mitigating factors, the appeal board said: “As the numbers of these cases increases, there will be growing temptation to examine them in detail and burden commissions and appeal boards with minute examination of the similarities with and differences from the instant case.”
“Such an approach will rarely be helpful,” they added.
Man City are the next club set to face an independent commission after being hit with 115 financial charges last year (2023).
Man City should ignore ‘staggering’ appeal warning, says Wyness
Everton (nine points) and Forest (four points) were both hit with deductions for breaking budget rules in the 2023-24 campaign.
Wyness told Football Insider‘s Insider Track podcast: “I’m very disappointed in the language which came out in the Nottingham Forest judgement.
“The independent panel have basically said: ‘Don’t go into our findings with any great detail, because we’re the top guys and we’re going to tell you that’s it. Don’t try and criticise us.
“I just thought that was ridiculous.
“How can they say that appeals won’t succeed?
“If they haven’t judged the case properly, of course the appeal will succeed. I think they just got fed up because they’ve tied themselves up in knots.
“I found that whole part of the Forest judgement staggering.
“I don’t think it will have any effect on Man City. Of course, they will have the right to appeal if they feel something hasn’t been considered correctly.”
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