Manchester City are set to avoid Champions League expulsion - as UEFA are finding it too expensive to enforce their own rules.
City, who won a domestic treble during the 2018-19 season, face expulsion from Europe's top club competition due to a potential breach of Financial Fair Play rules.
The Premier League club were referred to UEFA's Club Financial Control Body's adjudicatory chamber by chief investigator Yves Leterme following a probe into financial irregularities.
According to The Athletic , UEFA are struggling to enforce their Financial Fair Play regulations.
It means City will seemingly escape a big punishment and will be able to continue to compete in Europe's elite club competition.
It was claimed in the summer that the club were challenging the governing body's right to send the case to their adjudicatory chamber for a ruling to be made.
A report claimed that City believe there is "no case to answer and are contesting the "legitimacy and haste of the investigation".
UEFA formally opened the investigation in March following a series of leaks into their financial conduct published in German outlet Der Spiegel.
If found guilty, the Premier League side face a ban from the Champions League, most likely in the 2020-21 campaign.
However, it is thought that UEFA's adjudicatory chamber will delay making a judgement on the case until CAS has made a ruling on the validity of its attempts to do so.
Although City have yet to make a comment, the Abu Dhabi-owned club have previously denied claims of wrongdoing.
"The accusation of financial irregularities remains entirely false and the CFCB IC referral ignores a comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence provided by Manchester City FC to the Chamber," the club said in a statement last month.
"The decision contains mistakes, misinterpretations and confusions fundamentally borne out of a basic lack of due process and there remain significant unresolved matters raised by Manchester City FC as part of what the Club has found to be a wholly unsatisfactory, curtailed, and hostile process."
