Manchester City's 115-charge case has produced a strange side story in Spain. Reporting in Estadio Deportivo says Sevilla could, in theory, be handed the 2023 UEFA Super Cup if titles were stripped, but the outlet also describes that path as very complicated. Sevilla lost that final on penalties, and they won the competition once before, in 2006.

Sevilla's possible Super Cup claim

The key detail is not that Sevilla are expecting anything. It is that the 2023 final sits inside a much wider punishment debate, and one Spanish report has floated the idea that the trophy could go to the Nervionenses if Manchester City were stripped of titles.

That is still a long way from a decision. The reporting itself frames the outcome as uncertain, and the club's only previous Super Cup win came 19 years earlier, in 2006. For Sevilla, the whole question is built on a result they already lost, then a hypothetical sanction that has not been decided.

The wider fallout around City

The Manchester City case has already been framed as enormous. Estadio Deportivo says the Premier League investigation covers 115 charges and stretches from the 2009/10 season to the 2017/18 season, while the BBC is cited asking what happens with the period between December 2018 and February 2023.

The list of possible knock-on effects also goes beyond Spain. The same report names Manchester United and Liverpool as clubs that could benefit if titles were redistributed, with United currently 12th in the Premier League after 5 matches and Liverpool 6th, while City are top after 5.

Pep Guardiola's message in the piece was one of unity, saying, "We will get through this together, I love you all." But the football question attached to the case is still hanging over any possible punishment. What happens next in the 2018 to 2023 period remains unresolved, and Sevilla's possible claim stays exactly where it is for now, as a speculative outcome attached to a very messy case.

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