but we start the program with that breaking news and the hearing over Manchester City's 115 Premier League charges will begin next week on Monday now it was reported in August that the hearing was brought forward to Mid September and sources have told us that it will now start on September the 16th so the hearing will be held in private before an independent commission could last as long as 2 months we've been told before could last 10 weeks a decision is not expected until spring 2025 is expected the hearing with the independent commission will go on for those 10 weeks with both the Premier League and City expected to make lengthy legal representations outlining their case the independent commission will then go away and consider all the evidence and consider their decision so we expect the process to take several months because of the sheer volume of the charges remember 115 of them leveled against Manchester City and all of the amount of information connected to those charges that needs to be reviewed the end of the process could be later next year 2025 but it's hoped on all sides that the matter will finally be done and done inside a calendar year so reminder Manchester City have been charged with breaking Financial fair play rules over a 9-year period going from 2009 up until 2018 it's really important to say Manchester City deny all the charges against them Pep Guardiola has gone on record as saying innocent until proven guilty it's also worth pointing out that during the period in question 2009 to 2018 Manchester City have been crowned Premier League champions three times in that window so the breaking news on Sky Sports news is that we believe that hearing will begin on Monday [Music]