Daily Mail journalist Mike Keegan has revealed that Manchester City will be informed of the decision of UEFA’s investigation into the club’s possible FFP breaches by ‘the middle of this month’.

UEFA launched the probe in March 2019 following a series of leaked documents in German publication Der Spiegel, that suggested City may have misled UEFA about the club’s compliance with FFP rules.

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City have refuted these allegations from the outset, and Keegan says that they last received an update from UEFA about the investigation in January, during a meeting in Switzerland.

If City were to be found guilty of the transgressions, Pep Guardiola’s side ‘could be thrown out of the Champions League’.

However, The Athletic journalists Sam Lee and Matt Slater exclusively disclosed last November that City ‘will only receive a fine’, with no ban from the Champions League forthcoming.

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Keegan’s report indicates that City’s fate shall be confirmed during the winter break that follows the Premier League clash with West Ham on Sunday.

It is worth noting that Sam Lee also tweeted in December stating that his information asserted City would escape a ban ‘whether initially or after appeal’, which suggests that the impending judgement may well initially impose a ban upon the defending Premier League champions.

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