Dhaka, Sept. 25 -- Manchester City's 115 Premier League charges became one of the biggest off-field stories in football long before a verdict was reached.

Now, with The Athletic's David Ornstein reporting that City have been found guilty on all but one charge, the obvious question is, what exactly were they accused of?

The answer is more complicated than the headline number suggests.

The charges were not 115 entirely separate scandals. They covered alleged breaches of Premier League rules across different seasons, broadly involving five areas: inaccurate financial information, undisclosed manager and player remuneration, breaches of UEFA financial rules, breaches of the Premier League's own spending rules, and failure to cooperate with...