Legal Expert backs Tottenham to make 'massive claim' against Manchester City as floodgates open
Tottenham could seek a sizeable compensation package from Manchester City for a loss in revenue, a legal expert has told Tottenham News.
Things may be a mess on the pitch right now in N17, but at the Etihad Stadium it is all kicking off in the boardroom.
The whole footballing world now knows that the Citizens have been found guilty of 114 charges related to serious breaches of financial rules in the Premier League.
The Premier League have reported that City inflated their own revenue by over £900million across an nine-year period between 2009 and 2018.
A sanction is yet to be revealed, while various clubs are said to be gearing up for a legal battle for compensation.
The years in question coincide with a mixed period at White Hart Lane that could see Tottenham lead major claims against Man City.
How Manchester City's financial breaches have impacted Tottenham
Casting our minds back to the end of the 2008/09 season, the Lilywhites had just finished eighth in the Premier League.
They were just two points off a Europa League finish as Fulham snatched the last place.
Man City finished 10th, two places behind Spurs.
The following year Tottenham snatched Champions League football away from the Etihad as Peter Crouch scored an iconic winner to seal a top four finish.
From then on, the Citizens became a force in English football, finishing above the North Londoners in the following five seasons.
In four of those, Spurs missed out on Champions League qualification by just one place, while the 2011/12 season saw Chelsea steal their position among Europe's elite due to winning the tournament in Munich.
That all contributed to lower Premier League prize money and a failure to land the lucrative revenue that Champions League football brings.
It is that which looks to be the basis for a compensation claim against the Sky Blues in the near future.
Tottenham backed to make sizable claim against Manchester City
The loss in prize money and additional revenue alone is enough to spark conversation in N17.
That isn't even bringing into account that without signing Kyle Walker from Spurs, things may have not worked out so well at the Etihad.
Ignoring that, Senior Associate at Knights, Daniel Baker believes Tottenham have grounds for a major claim.
The legal expert has represented elite-level coaches, athletes, clubs and organisations within football, including cases within the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
Speaking exclusively to Tottenham News, Baker said: "Every Premier League place lost or gained is worth between £2m and £3m, so you've got potentially every club below them able to prove that if it wasn't for Man City's alleged cheating that they would have been financially better off.
"It'll be a massive compensation claim for Tottenham. Those sorts of cases will be way more complex and the value of the compensation will be higher. It will be worth their while because of the loss of Europe and places because they are expensive. It's crazy.
"That's not even talking about player claims because of their contracts with potential incentives for qualifying for Europe in a season. If Manchester City have taken a place ahead of them, they could look to bring a claim against City on that basis.
"That could be trickier as there's no precedent for it, but the floodgates are open and we're in a brave new world wondering what's ahead of us."
The whole Premier League case against Man City has opened a can of worms and it looks set to have a direct impact in North London.