I like Carragher but this article is silly. Everton’s accountants overbook their books. It’s right the FA/Premier League finally start punishing these clubs and letting them get away with it with tough penalties.
It Everton think their punishment is harsh, think of Luton’s -30pt deduction. That was certainly a disgrace as that effectively relegated them before the season started.
Just got to see now if the Prem. League have testifies the size of watermelons to punish city. Not through finance as they can afford it. I’d give them a double relegation so show the authority actually means business.
Be really interesting to see what happens with Man City and Chelsea. I think it’s hard to have a real opinion on this until we see the fallout from that. More severe punishments for those and this might feel okay. If they get similar or lower punishments then it’s a kick in the teeth. Feel for the Everton fans if I’m honest.
A 10 point deduction for losses exceeding allowable losses by 19.5M related to stadium expenses… Seems fair, doesn’t it. We broke the rules, but we could’ve just said f*ck the rules and had much more losses, but instead we sold Richy and others for half of what we could’ve to try and mitigate losses.
If this doesn’t get reduced to at most a 6 point deduction I will be absolutely furious
I think you miss the point here
You absolutely could not have sold richarlison for double what u got. U already robbed spurs blind at 60million
It’s not what he’s worth to spurs, it’s what he was worth to us
Yeah but he was never a 120million player. He was decent for you but come on, that would have made him the most valuable transfer in prem history at the time, by a fairly large margin
Oh no, not saying that. Certainly not a £120m player, but absolutely a £60m player in terms of his value to us
As the rules are meant to stop financial doping and clubs becoming insolvent through living beyond their means, I fail to understand the punishment too.
Everton have clearly suffered from poor signings and being unable to move them on due to covid. they have made some cut backs, have sold a LOT of talent and are clearly not insolvent or having an unfair advantage.
this is excessive and strange precedent to set
Why is it only everton but not bigger clubs like City, Chelsea who are literally spending money so badly. FA is so fucking corrupt that they don’t have guts to take actions against big clubs and just in their way to exert their power over small clubs like this.
Jamie you’re drunk bro go home
Feels reasonably right at the same time, in a sense
Thank you!
Can we just bear in mind this hasnt gone to appeal yet, which means the sentence will be half, prob 5 points
When did Carragher become someone with an expert opinion? It feels like everytime I check out reddit out is littered with Carragher said this or that. Aside from being a pretty solid footballer in his day I mostly remember him these days as spitting at some girls on a motorway somewhere.
Just because Man City and Chelsea haven’t been found guilty and have been punished, doesn’t mean that Everton are innocent and this points deduction isn’t justified.
It’s basically no punishment. They’ll stay up and their top four chances remain unaffected.
Then don’t break the very clear rules, if the punishment is not excessive all clubs will just go and do the same meaning the rule is pointless.
I think it’s quite obvious here that it’s all the fault of Rafa Benitez.
Can’t wait for the point reduction for Chelsea and man city. 17th place will be alot easier for Everton then!