Rival clubs want range of punishments for Man City

Regarding the timescale for future sanctions, there is concern among club executives that a sanction applied to just one season would merely provide City with a "bump in the road," given the likelihood of their returning to the Premier League at the first opportunity.

Manchester City CEO Ferran Soriano (left) and chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak have continued to insist the club are innocent despite the guilty verdicts A number of Premier League clubs want Manchester City to face both "retrospective punishments" and future sanctions for their mass financial rule-breaking, sources have told BBC Sport.

There is an understanding that there is nuance in exactly what clubs consider a fitting penalty for the eight-time Premier League champions, who were found guilty of all serious financial rule breaches in a damning verdict by an independent commission.