Simon Jordan fears that a Manchester City appeal against their guilty verdict will be a fruitless exercise. talkSPORT understands the Premier League giants have been found guilty on all but one of their 115 charges.City have been found guilty on almost all of their financial charges, and Jordan believes they are in a precarious positionShutterstock EditorialCity have maintained their innocence ever since they were initially charged in February 2023.Sanctions remain undecided, with all possibilities still on the table, and it’s understood that City will appeal once there is confirmation that the charges have gone against them.However, former Crystal Palace owner Jordan joined Paul Hawksbee and Andy Jacobs to offer his reaction to the seismic news and hinted that the club will not achieve a different outcome with an appeal.What did Simon Jordan say?“I am surprised and unsurprised in equal measure,” Jordan said.“I am surprised that the Premier League and the independent commission have had the balls to make this decision.“I’m unsurprised because I always thought Man City had a case to answer and there’s a part of me, without wanting to be vindictive towards Man City, that thinks this is possibly a good thing. “Because whilst Man City will put forward the argument that they were found guilty by UEFA and then cleared by CAS, that’s a re-framing of the circumstances to some extent.“Because the scope of what they were asked to contend with under the CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport) arbitration was slightly different to what UEFA found them guilty of in the first instance.“So, it’ll be interesting to see how Man City play the appeal out, but they are now in significant trouble, because I don’t think that an appeal is going to be particularly fruitful for them, I don’t think it’s going to produce a different outcome. “Because this is now reputational harm beyond all reputational harm. The ex-Palace owner didn’t mince his words when it came to City’s guilty verdict“This project wasn’t just about football, this was about a nation state utilising sport to create favourable outcomes – that’s all now been besmirched.”What happened with City, UEFA and CAS?At the beginning of 2020, UEFA issued City with a two-season ban from their competitions and a €30m fine for breaching financial rules.However, CAS were on hand to overturn the suspension and reduce the fine to €10m after an appeal as they said ‘most of the alleged breaches were either not established or time-barred’.City were found to be guilty of not cooperating with UEFA though, and therefore still fined.However, in this case with the Premier League, City are not be able to appeal to CAS, with talkSPORT’s chief football correspondent Alex Crook explaining what will happen in the appeal process.“As far as I understand it, both parties had 14 days to appeal whatever outcome the independent commission came up with,” Crook said on talkSPORT Drive.Enzo Maresca will now have to face serious questions about City’s off-field conductGetty“Manchester City do plan to appeal, as we understand it, so they will have 14 days to get their appeal in place. Then a separate commission will be put together to decide the outcome of that appeal. “Crucially, they can’t go to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, so this can’t drag on for months and years. I think we could end up with quite a quick resolution.”Could Man City be kicked out the Premier League?As Jordan alluded to earlier, all eyes and ears will now be pointing to news of the potential sanctions for City, which could include the prospect of relegation.And Stefan Borson, a former financial adviser at the club, has insisted that nothing can be ruled out as of yet.“I said it on the first day when these charges were published – in the event that they’re found guilty of everything and the most serious charges, it’s going to be very, very hard to gauge just how severe the approach is going to be in sanction,” Borson said.“Anything is possible and all hell is now going to break loose because, especially now we have a vacuum of the international break, you’re going to have now days and days (of discussion)… Borson, like Jordan, believes City would be wasting their team and money if they attempt to overturn the verdict“And this is going to go on now for weeks and weeks and weeks, and it’s going to be very, very hard for City to say anything or to contain the fallout from this scenario.“That’s without even seeing what’s in this five, six, 700-page decision, which I assume City are going through a process right now, where they’re trying, as Everton did in the recent Burnley case, to try and get it to hold back the publication of it. “But that will almost certainly fail, so we will almost certainly see very shortly the decision of the Independent Commission laid out in great detail. It will give people huge ammunition to attack those individuals and the behaviour of the club. “And then we will go into the process, which will be behind closed doors around the sanction. And this will not be a Chelsea situation. Okay, so Chelsea did a wonderful job in negotiating a deal with the Premier League and ended up with an incredibly lenient approach. “They did a very similar thing with the FA. We are not in this situation with Manchester City. Manchester City have denied everything all the way through.“They’ve gone through a process that may have cost as much as £100m between the two parties, and they’ve been found to have breached everything. They are in very, very serious trouble.”