Here are the answers to some of this week's questions:

Will we ever be free? Victor

I heard on the news recently that AI will make the human race extinct by 2100 (the year rather than the time tonight), so there's that to look forward to, but I take your point Victor. Three years of purgatory have been replaced by...more purgatory. And while it may look like purgatory from the point of view of a City fan, the wider world is looking at it like death row.

Most people assumed guilt before there was an investigation, while there was an investigation, and that guilt has now been confirmed by an independent panel that have to be trusted. City will always be known as cheats now, even if the decision is overturned on appeal. There may well be legitimate reasons if that happens but everybody has already made their mind up and it will always be thrown at the club and its players and its fans.

Freedom in one sense will come down to how severe any incoming punishments are, what losses to the squad (or ownership) that leads to and how long it takes for City to recover. On the other, that away end at Anfield looked pretty liberated and if it feels like your algorithms are wall-to-wall coverage of City's guilt there are worse things to do than turn them off for a bit (I'd gladly get rid of X forever if I didn't need it for work).

Please can you teach me how to play golf? Notsliar Nevets

No.

Do we know what is the timeline for the appeal? In percentage terms how likely is it that City can overturn the most serious charges on appeal i.e. owner funding disguised as sponsorship? Mark

I'll get to the second part of your question next Mark but to take the first bit, I don't think we do actually know the timeline for an appeal. This year's Premier League handbook says that there are 12 weeks for an appeal to be heard and then another month for it to be concluded, which would suggest the end of January for a final outcome.

That has to be taken as a best-case scenario though given this is such an enormous case with so much to consider and City will throw everything they can at the appeal. Such a timeline probably wasn't built for a case like this. Then there's the issue that others have raised, which is because City were charged in the 2022/23 season the disciplinary process should be taken from that handbook, and the timeline is not as defined there.

We also don't know whether a sanctions hearing (and appeal that follows) will come after an appeal or will run at the same time, so there is the possibility that any provisional punishment could be announced before the result of the appeal is heard. We also don't know when any of the appendices to the 40-page report will be published, containing all of the key evidence that has found City guilty and dismissed the club's 'irrefutable' documents. Other than that, well done boys good process.

Looking at the confidence of City’s Chairman, CEO and especially players, manager, it looks like City will win the appeal. What is your thought about it? We also saw Alfie Haaland support the club in the win against Liverpool. If they weren’t confident, they would have looked to leave Man City. Milan Mahat

So, I wouldn't say it looks like City will win the appeal but Milan is certainly right that City are confident they will. It's really difficult to put a percentage on their chances given no evidence either way has been made public but it definitely has to be significantly lower than 50 per cent for the simple reasons that it won't start as a fresh case and City have already been found guilty; it's like VAR, the original verdict has to be respected unless there are clear and significant errors.

City say there are, hence their continued confidence, and there is certainly more of a chance of it than is being made out in the coverage, but it is still more likely to fail than not based on what we know. The players (and their parents!) and manager are backing the club because they trust the chairman and CEO when they tell them everything will be okay. I can understand why that is seen as a positive, although I do think it's more just a case of footballers doing their jobs and whatever happens to City the players will be fine. The response from the players has been good, but it would have been a big surprise if it had been anything else.

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What is your honest answer about the sanctions, if we get any? John

There will certainly be some sanctions, John, because it is hard to see the charges for not co-operating being dropped even if one tranche of them already have. As it stands, the most severe punishments are rightly on the table but even that is a minefield. The Premier League and its clubs are not necessarily one voice and the independent commission have to be technical about it and also have to be mindful that they are punishing what has already happened rather than what is going on since - if a 50-point punishment was the answer, it cannot be allowed to turn into 56 just because Enzo Maresca's team have done so well that more deductions would be required to give the punishment that the club is seen to warrant.

A heavy points deduction, probably enough to guarantee relegation, is probably what I'd expect with the situation right now, as well as an enormous fine and possibly a transfer embargo as well. However, there has been a lot mooted about deductions over multiple seasons and another hybrid solutions; a personal shout that seems like it would put everyone else off would be that City are not allowed back in the Premier League and no players or staff can cut their hair until United win five games in a row.

The reality is that nobody knows because this is so unprecedented though, and while it may seem pretty useless to be saying 'I don't know' to a lot of this I don't think it helps that so many others that also don't know are pretending that they do have answers.

What do you think about Enzo and Cherki off the ball movements? Do you think it causes chaos to the backline? Last season we ended the season with Khusanov and Guehi partnership - should we expect to see same of that partnership? Given the amount of minutes Semenyo has played recently, don't you think a Doku and Ndiaye start would be brilliant? Maxwell

Some football questions! How lovely. Albeit it feels like a lot of reaction to what was a weird game against PSG that we my not see again until City next play PSG, which could be a long time off if there are sanctions kicking in before then. I had the unenviable task of doing ratings for the game on Wednesday and it felt that those who got hooked at half-time had the lowest scores, but that doesn't necessarily mean they were or are the problems.

For instance, it does look like a double pivot for such a game gave City more structure in the second half and that means one of Enzo Fernandez and Rayan Cherki playing rather than both. That looks sensible, although it doesn't mean that Cherki will sit on the bench for every big game just because he was not in that second half. Similarly, Abdukodir Khusanov showed again that he is better as a centre-back than a right-back but the game state is very different at 0-3 compared to 3-3; Ruben Dias and Marc Guehi were excellent together at Anfield.

The wingers is also interesting. Antoine Semenyo did not play well and admitted so afterwards, but even when he doesn't he is still involved in producing good quality chances and can cause panic to opposition defences because his movements can be unexpected. It feels like starting both Jeremy Doku and Iliman Ndiaye together would be good, but then it felt like starting Doku would be great after Anfield when he came on for Ndiaye, and then he did very little against PSG before Ndiaye came on and ran defenders ragged.

I think the PSG game has thrown up several questions that were at the back of the mind and are now a bit further forward, which is fair. I wouldn't be averse to any of the suggestions. But at the same time it was only one game and two very different halves against an opposition that is far better than anything else City will face this season. Maresca has been almost perfect so far this season at picking the right lineup and subs for every game, so nothing should be being ripped up after Wednesday.