The PL wanted Everton to pay the legal costs. The cheeky f*ckers.
If the PL lose against City the costs will be paid by the PL and other 19 PL clubs. That won't go down well with the Red Shirt Cartel clubs. :-)
What about legal costs?
This specific case is six years in the making, so legal fees on both sides are already estimated at tens of millions of pounds before the hearing even starts.
Expect whichever side 'wins' to make a claim for costs.
For context, the Premier League wanted Everton to pay the full £4.9m legal costs of their first PSR six-point deduction case from last season.
Everton's lawyer Celia Rooney told the appeal that those figures were “
frankly eye-watering”.
However, an appeal board ruled Everton should pay £1.7m and the Premier League cover the remaining £3.2m legal fees.
Any costs being paid by the Premier League at the end of the City case
would have to be spread across the 20 clubs which make up the league.
The hearing into Manchester City's 115 charges for alleged breaches of the Premier League's financial rules begins on Monday.
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