There was no need for any club to ask about punishments in advance as they all (or almost all) fully believed the rules would only be used to keep successful Muslim owners out of “our white mans game”. Ie: to target City. And only City.
The fact that Everton - one of the original (self-titled) “big five” - who collectively got together to take away gate receipts from the away teams and thus destroyed the decades old competitive balance on which the English game had always been built, leading deliberately and inexorably to the situation where, without outside owner investment, 29 of the last 30 English titles would have gone to one of United, Liverpool, or Arsenal, with the one other going to proven ffp cheats, Leicester, are the team that has been most mightily screwed by the Red shirts (who’s interests, never forget, Everton have slavishly followed without question for decades, hoping for some small crumbs from the top table) gives me a lot of schadenfreude-ly pleasure.
Fuck Everton. I hope they go bust.