It smacks to me of the can hope of huge payout. Be interesting to see how the club defend it as the owners and organisation was very different to what it is now.
I don't think you can necessarily judge the claimants as simply seeking a big payout, though that's the substance of Bennell's defence to many of the charges he faces in the current trial. We should find out fairly soon more about the allegations of what City did, but the three cases that have been brought against City so far are from men whom Bennell has been convicted of abusing in the past. Abuse takes a terrible toll on survivors and if our club failed them, thus facilitating that abuse, when we invited them into our youth set-up to pursue their dreams of becoming professional footballers, it's only right that they should have the recourse against City that the law allows.