Man City charges LIVE: Pep Guardiola return confirmed as Haaland and Maresca break silence

Hello and welcome to Mirror Football's live blog on Thursday, October 8, where we will bring you the latest after an independent commission found Manchester City guilty of breaking Premier League rules in a strongly worded report released last week.

City have been accused of breaking financial rules between 2009-10 and 2017-18. An independent commission concluded that more than £830million of owner funding was used to inflate revenues and enable the club to comply with Premier League and UEFA regulations through a series of 'sham' arrangements.

The Etihad club, though, are adamant they have done nothing wrong, insisting they are innocent and that they have a comprehensive body of irrefutable evidence to support their position as they lodged their appeal last week. However, senior figures within English football are now reportedly concerned that City could play in the Champions League next season even if they are relegated from the Premier League this season.

While in a show of support to his old club, Pep Guardiola will be back at the Etihad Stadium on Wednesday night to watch his old side take on Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League. But former Match of the Day host Gary Lineker believes City should 'own' their behaviour and warned they should expect to lose their titles. There is still much discussion about potential outcomes, so stay right here for all of the latest...

Former Blackpool manager Ian Holloway launched into a passionate six-minute rant after being asked about Manchester City being found guilty of breaching the Premier League 's financial rules. Holloway, who's now in charge of League Two side Swindon Town , has urged decision makers to kick City not just out of the Premier League, but out of the EFL , too.

After a pause, Holloway replied: "To be honest with you, in that whole season, I felt robbed. My team played so well against Man City. We scored three perfectly good goals. We had one disallowed for being offside, and they scored two. One was not a foul, and the other one was offside.

"So they were given a penalty, and the other goal was offside, and the referee sent me a letter saying we cost you nine points this year because we expected, oh, that must have been a foul because that was Man City, let alone them now cheating. The game worldwide is being ruined by people who are rich, who think they can do God knows what they want to it."