Lots of soccer followers have drawn comparisons to the circumstances introduced by the Premier League in opposition to Nottingham Forest and Everton respectively over breaches to Revenue and Sustainability Guidelines (PSR).

Throughout the 2023-24 season, each golf equipment have been docked factors for making extra losses than they have been permitted to for the three-year interval from the 2020-21 to 2022-23 seasons.

These circumstances have been of a single cost, have been simpler to decipher and concerned considerably much less proof.

“The Forest and Everton circumstances have been, to a sure extent, very clear-cut. They have been an open-and-shut case,” mentioned Maguire.

“There was 50,000 items of proof put ahead by each events.

“Within the case of Manchester Metropolis, you are going to must multiply that by most likely an element of 10, so we might be taking a look at half 1,000,000 items of proof, which must be mirrored upon by the three folks within the fee.

“They’re additionally in demand in their very own jobs so making an attempt to get them round a desk regularly is not essentially straightforward and that is why eight months later we’re nonetheless not likely additional down the street by way of a conclusion to the proof referral after which making a verdict.”

Earlier this month, Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy mentioned the method had “gone on for a lot too lengthy”.

In response, Premier League CEO Richard Masters advised BBC Sport: “The one level the place I can communicate publicly about it’s when a choice has been handed down.

“I can not speculate about why or when, that is all I can say actually. Daniel shouldn’t be in the identical place as me and I can not speak about it.”

He added: “There isn’t any blissful various to imposing the foundations. It goes in the direction of the integrity of the competitors and I do not suppose that precept must be frayed as a result of it’s too troublesome, too complicated, too expensive.”