All eyes are on Manchester City's ongoing Financial Fair Play investigation after the Premier League announced on Friday that Everton would be receiving a ten-point deduction after being found guilty of breaching FFP rules. Sean Dyche's side currently sit 14th in the league standings having accrued 14 points from their first 12 games, meaning they would drop down to 19th after a deduction.

Meanwhile, City were charged earlier this year after allegedly breaching the league’s financial rules over 100 times between 2009 and 2018. The Citizens have strongly denied the charges with the investigation still ongoing.

It remains to be seen what exactly the punishment would be if City were found guilty of breaches, with a points deduction an option. Back in February, it was revealed that the Premier League referred the case to an independent commission, which will be formed of three members.

The members will be selected by Murray Rosen KC, the chair of the Premier League's judicial panel. The panel can include any of the 15 members of the judicial panel, as well as non-members.

The Premier League and Man City will be allowed to appeal the decision once a judgement is made, with Rosen appointing an appeal panel made up of new members if it came to that. Regarding the panel selection process, JMW head of sports law Stephen Taylor Heath told Sky Sports News back in February: "The commission will have a legal representative on the panel, and you'd expect that representative to be a pretty heavyweight King's Counsel. Manchester City have had an obligation to comply with the Premier League's investigation and they now have an obligation to comply with the commission's procedure.

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"If they don't comply then a dim view will be taken. If the charges relate to administrative errors then the sanctions will be a slap on the wrist.

"You would think, if the Premier League have taken it this far, they either think there is a case to answer or they've simply got to the point where they haven't been given the answers, and they're now putting it to a commission to get those answers."