Man City to accept 115 charges verdict, United to be relegated and Lewis Hamilton back on top of the world: My 10 wishes for 2025, writes IAN HERBERT
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A new sporting year, carrying all our hopes for the extraordinary, the unscripted and the new stars with their stories as yet unwritten. Here are 10 wild hopes of my own for 2025 in sport. Might just one of them happen? Happy New Year!. The verdict in the case of 115 charges brought by the Premier League against City will come in the early months of this year.
![[If an independent panel views those as a deliberate ploy to dodge financial sustainability rules then recent history tells us City's Abu Dhabi owners will go very hard at the Premier League]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/31/16/93622927-14239507-image-a-46_1735663319440.jpg)
My understanding is the hearing has revealed the mind-boggling complexity of some of the financial deals between City and state-controlled Abu Dhabi companies. The verdict in the case of 115 charges brought by the Premier League against City will come in the early months of this year.
![[It was the same old story before Christmas, when Chelsea's Mykhailo Mudryk expressed astonishment at having failed a drugs test]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/31/16/93622941-14239507-image-a-47_1735663365092.jpg)
If an independent panel views those as a deliberate ploy to dodge financial sustainability rules then recent history tells us City's Abu Dhabi owners will go very hard at the Premier League. It was the same old story before Christmas, when Chelsea's Mykhailo Mudryk expressed astonishment at having failed a drugs test.
![[We heard the same from Jannik Sinner when he tested positive in 2024]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/31/16/93622951-14239507-image-a-48_1735663395084.jpg)
If an independent panel views those as a deliberate ploy to dodge financial sustainability rules — which, of course, it may well not — then recent history tells us City's Abu Dhabi owners will go very hard at the Premier League again. Privately, Abu Dhabi would view conviction as a huge embarrassment. They bought City in 2008 to burnish their international reputation, not to be accused of deceit.
![[The Black Bubbles protest at West Ham's game against Liverpool on Sunday revealed campaigners' powers of invention]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/31/16/93623029-14239507-image-a-49_1735663571710.jpg)
