Manchester United legend Rio Ferdinand believes any success Manchester City have had with an asterisk can be discounted.City have been found guilty of all serious financial breaches by an independent panel, but they have submitted an appeal.The appeal process is now underway with the Premier League hoping for a resolution by early 2027GettyThe panel found the multiple Premier League champions to have inflated their sponsorships by close to £900million from 2009 to 2018.The club deny all wrongdoing and insist they are innocent.As a result, everything just carries on until the appeal process ends and then if needed, another panel come up with a punishment.Ferdinand’s Man United missed out on the Premier League title in the 2011/12 campaign to Roberto Mancini‘s City.This season was during the time period in which City have been found guilty to be breaching financial rules.On City, Ferdinand told Ally McCoist and Alan Brazil on talkSPORT Breakfast: “I just want my medals – I am joking.“I think that the players can take no blame because I don’t think they are part of it. They are not part of this situation. There are people to blame that are further up the food chain.“But if there is going to be an asterisk alongside some of these achievements that they have had during this spell.“I for one would look back on anything with an asterisk and say it doesn’t count.“That is just the way I see things. If there have been some wrongdoings on the way to achieving success, well, it doesn’t amount to winning to me – that is the way I see it.Ferdinand’s thoughts will be echoed by a lot of other football fansRex FeaturesFerdinand still claimed six Premier League trophiesGetty“Man City fans might feel different, but every individual has their own way of looking at this.“But I just want it to be played out as quickly as possible – it has taken long enough and dragged along and tainted the brand that is the Premier League.”Man City latestManchester City have repeatedly stated that they have a body of ‘irrefutable evidence.’They feel as if the initial independent panel dismissed a lot of the initial reports from the Abu Dhabi government about the club.These include bank statements and receipts that prove that the government provided the cash for their sponsorship deals and not their owners.These documents are set to be re-submitted, and when they lodged their appeal, they released the following statement.The legacy that Pep Guardiola built at the Etihad is being questionedGettyIt read: “The club is innocent of the accusations made by the Premier League and a comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence exists in support of all its positions, relating to this case.”The appeal process could also drag on with the punishment hearing also happening at the same time.Financial expert Stefan Borson revealed that the whole process could be delayed.Speaking on White and Jordan earlier this month, he said: “I think it’s quite hard to know exactly where we are in the whole order of process because the appeal may or may not go before a sanction hearing.“It seems to me it would be sensible for the parties to agree that the appeal to the liability part i.e. how many of the 115 (charges) City have breached, that appeal would take place before we have a sanction hearing.“Now, there’s also just the practical aspect of actually getting the same people to go through two separate processes.“So, the sanction hearing will have both sides’ legal teams presenting, based on the independent commission’s findings, their position on sanction. That will be the starting point and also the mitigating and aggravating factors.“That in itself is a process that needs preparation and time for the lawyers. What I don’t think can happen is a situation where they try and run both processes simultaneously.“The preparation time required for the full appeal of the liability phase, i.e. whether they have done it or not, that to me can’t be run while they’re also being distracted on a sanction hearing.“There’s a lot of talk about how this is going to go quick. It just seems to me that it’s very unlikely that that’s the case.”