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Not so sure to be honest. There's two expert comments there.
One is from a KC who represented Derby County on its own charges and lost. "Related experience", sure, but on a completely different scale, for completely different reasons, with completely different stakes and pressures, and without years and years of painstaking audit and evidence discovery in advance.
The other is from a guy who says City won't be able to appeal but he wouldn't be surprised if it all took over two years anyway. Big whoop.
It'll all be done behind closed doors, but the Premier League will presumably prefer to focus on either the most provable, or the most significant, or the most decisive charges first. This isn't a criminal court, there's no real precedent, no suggestion of any understood principle of what's a proportionate penalty for any charge proven, no clarity about what if any ordinary legal processes will apply, few prescribed limits in the rulebook about what the Premier League could do.
My prediction: once the Premier League has outlined its approach behind the scenes, including whatever cards they hold that have led them to declare these 105 charges at all, this will go quite swiftly. We'll know roughly the outcome this time next year, and if it's not finalised it'll be because they're waiting for the summer for some reason of fairness.