Gary Neville hints City's 115 FFP charges will always cloud Pep's EPL success

Gary Neville has hinted that Pep Guardiola's relative success in the Premier League will always be overshadowed by the 115 charges Manchester City are facing for allegedly breaching financial rules.

The Citizens are still awaiting an outcome for the 115 charges - that are strongly denied by the club - which include a failure to provide accurate financial information between the 2009-10 and 2017-18 seasons, a failure to provide accurate details of player and manager payments during the same period, and alleged breaches of Premier League and UEFA financial rules.

A total of 35 relate to a failure to co-operate with Premier League investigations into the matter between December 2018 and February 2023. A date for City's hearing has yet to be confirmed and with legal challenges and appeals, is likely to drag on for several years yet.

As such, many have argued that City's recent successes will always have an 'asterisk' alongside them, while others such as Ian Wright have claimed it is 'unfair' for their titles to be so overshadowed as the 15-month wait for a resolution continues.

Neville, speaking on the Stick To Football Podcast brought to you by Sky Bet, was discussing whether Guardiola could be considered the best ever manager in the Premier League, but suggested there would always be 'a "but"' until an outcome was reached.

'What Pep [Guardiola] has done, in not even a short period of time, you can't deny that if someone put Pep top [manager in Premier League history], I wouldn't say you're out of order, I'd just say Sir Alex [Ferguson].

'If someone said Pep Guardiola was top, I wouldn't say your wrong. I'm likely to go with Sir Alex [Ferguson] anyways aren't I, and I certainly don't want to mention the 115 charges [against