What I don't fully understand about the financial fair play rules is what would happen if they did indeed get relegated because of legal trouble and then the Manchester City sheikhs would be willing to continue paying all the players those high salaries, would that be allowed or would they break any financial fair play rules if they had to go down in the Championship? I wonder what the baseline is there to determine how much it is allowed to be paid in salaries to all the players.
They will not be able to pay those players from their own pocket, players salaries are paid from revenue generated and they are not going to generate anything near half of what they're currently generating. It's against FFP.
In addition, City could lose a lot of their income, i.e sponsorship, ticket sales and merchandise. It'd impacted the club's income.
In result, the bad financial might be forced them to sell their players as well. and this is also giving a bad image to the club.
It's gonna be a snowball effect to the club.