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The Premier League returns with a different tenor after Manchester City was found guilty on more than 100 charges of violating the competition's financial rules. With questions looming about the team currently topping the table ahead of a high-profile matchup with Liverpool, there are uncertain time

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What is the story about?

The Premier League returns with a different tenor after Manchester City was found guilty on more than 100 charges of violating the competition's financial rules.

With questions looming about the team currently topping the table ahead of a high-profile matchup with Liverpool, there are uncertain times for City and for the league itself, with rival teams weighing up action and the league's administrators working out how they will punish the infractions.

Until then, the games go on.

Manchester City superstar Erling Haaland is back in action and could see a direct rival for the top scorer crown, though Liverpool forward Alexander Isak may not be fit for the meeting.

Here is how things currently stand with a dozen players having scored at least three

goals at this early stage in the campaign: