Timeline and Estimated Legal Bill for Appeal Process Into Manchester City Guilty Verdict

Mateo Kovacic has attracted interest from Italy in the final year of his Manchester City contract. City lodged their comprehensive appeal on October 1, meeting the deadline set by the independent commission process, stating in a formal announcement that the commission's opinion contains "clear material errors, of law, principle and fact and is unsafe".

The club have insisted that they are "innocent of the accusations made by the Premier League" and that a "comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence" exists in support of all of their positions.

The filing confirmed what had been widely anticipated since the verdict was published on September 29 - that the case would move into a further phase of proceedings before any sanction could be imposed or take effect.