Liverpool lead clubs to profit from 'huge' Man City fine - Keith Wyness
The Premier League could potentially split Manchester City's fine for their 114 charges between clubs that have compensation grievances as a result of the saga.
That is according to former Everton chief executive and ex-Premier League board member Keith Wyness, speaking exclusively to Football Insider, who believes that could be a way to avoid numerous legal challenges.
Manchester United and Liverpool are both considering legal action against the Citizens, while many other clubs also feel they're in line for compensation.
The Merseyside club's grievance is especially acute given City beat them to the Premier League title on three occasions by small points margins.
Wyness believes that the lawyers surrounding the league will be licking their lips at the prospect of several lawsuits, unless the Premier League can find a way to distribute any fine for City among the other clubs.
The Manchester giants are expected to be hit with a hefty points deduction, while a significant fine is also seen as being inevitable.
United twice finished second behind their bitter rivals during their nine-year period of misdemeanours, while Liverpool were also pipped to the title back in 2013-14.
Man City compensation issues must be sorted 'in-house'
Everton’s former chief Wyness – who served as CEO at Goodison Park between 2004 and 2009 and now runs a football consultancy advising elite clubs – believes that the grievances other clubs have towards the City situation must be sorted "in-house" by the Premier League if possible.
Speaking on the latest edition of Football Insider's Inside Track podcast, Wyness proposed that City's fine could be split to keep everyone happy.
"I end up thinking that the solution would be, and again I'm looking at how we can try and get to a solution where it benefits the victims and penalises City at the same time, but if there was a big fine, then there could be a way for it to be split amongst the teams that would have some sort of claims," he said.
"I think that could be acceptable, if there was a mechanism developed that would allow for the sharing of that. In return, clubs could drop all future litigation, and we'd be getting back to what I've been hoping for for a long time of getting away from the legal process. We're trying to do it mostly in-house if we can do.
"Right now, all I can hear is this big roar in the background, and it's the noise of lawyers licking their lips and drooling at the chance of getting in here. I just don't want to see money leaking out of football into the legal fraternity.
"I'm hoping that if there is a huge fine, that could be the solution that we try to find some way to stop all these endless legal situations. It would be such a terrible situation to have these things dragging on."
Man City very unlikely to be expelled from Premier League
Wyness previously told Football Insider earlier this week that EFL clubs could potentially "block" City from being "expelled" from the Premier League.
The Citizens potentially having their Premier League membership revoked has been put forward as one potential punishment, but Wyness believes that scenario only has a 10 per cent chance of happening.
He made it clear that there is no mechanism for clubs to drop out of the Premier League and into the EFL for anything other than the traditional relegation.
With that in mind, he outlined that he fully expects City's punishment to be a points deduction that would effectively guarantee relegation.