New Man City financial message sent as Liverpool face anxious wait amid 115 FFP charges

Keeping pace with Manchester City has been not only the goal of Liverpool but also the rest of the Premier League for some time.

The 10-point deduction handed to Everton on Friday for one charge of breaching the Premier League’s profit and sustainability regulations, decided following an independent commission hearing, has understandably placed focus on Manchester City and the 115 charges that they will face for breaching P&S rules.

That, too, will appear before an independent commission, with so much to pore through on both sides it is unlikely that it arrives any time soon, with even the end of 2024 seeming like something of a stretch.

For the time being it is business as usual and Manchester City, treble winners last season after their Champions League, Premier League and FA Cup triumphs, went into the international break at the summit of the league, a place they have become accustomed to occupying for much of the past six years or so.

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Liverpool’s 2019/20 Premier League triumph is the only one to have snapped the winning streak since 2017 for Pep Guardiola’s side, while Jurgen Klopp’s Reds have been the closest to breaking that stranglehold during the past six years, with the Reds just 15 minutes away from a title success back in 2021/22.

But after that successful season, where the Reds threatened an unprecedented quadruple right to the very end before last-day heartbreak in the Premier League title race and a Champions League final defeat at the hands of Real Madrid, 2022/23 was one to forget. It proved to be something of the end of an era, with