Last February, Manchester City FC was exposed for financial irregularities involving a whopping 115 charges, including but not limited to failure to truthfully declare financial income, leadership remuneration issues, violation of the principle of financial fairness, and non-cooperation with the Premier League's enforcement investigation. Once convicted, the club faces huge fines and points deductions for minor offenses, and could face the serious consequences of being stripped of the league title, kicked out of the Premier League, or even kicked out of the entire soccer league system.
In the shadow of such litigation, City have quickly climbed to ninth place in the relegation favorites' list, with a relegation probability of 7x, just slightly below Lister City's 1.4x, Yeovil's 1.73x, Southampton's 2.05x, Ewarton's 3.2x, Nordinham Forest's 3.4x, Wolves' 4.3x, Brentford's 6x, Fulham's 6.5x, and even more than Niemönfeldtjäger's 9.5x.
Meanwhile, the other two teams competing for relegation, Arsenal and Liverpool, both have relegation odds of 1001 times, which suggests that the likelihood of City being penalized for relegation is extremely high. British media revealed that the verdict on the financial irregularities case will be revealed in January next year, when the fate of City will be revealed.
