After the Premier League handed out a ten-point deduction to Everton, Martyn Ziegler explains what could happen next for other clubs if they are found guilty of breaking rules
If there is some kind of punishment I wonder if Chelsea will get a more lenient sentence for self reporting and because the regime has changed.
If they did know some kind of punishment was incoming, the focus on youth and long contracts may actually be a shrewd move.
Not sure that spunking as much as they have done can ever be called shrewd but if they suspected a transfer ban or relegation the rapid spending doesn’t seem quite as batshit insane with that context
Reporting it might lessen some aspects but they are still benefitting now from investments made in players when they breached FFP. Just like City, you build a team with money you don’t have and then profit from sales to further reinvest. Chelsea made alot of money from youth products sold for good money.
I would expect the same example as Everton, points deductions for each year they broke it. 6 points per breach. They might remove the points deductions for the amount of the breach or maybe not fining them.
Youth products are irrelevant to the financial irregularities being investigated though.
Iirc, a lot of it is under the table payments to agents for established players, like Eden, to ensure the deal gets past the finish line.
Then you go down the granular levels and start counting if the money even actually dented FFP for those years. The Guardian article indicated off-the books payments of ‘tens of millions’ over a decade… Which considering Chelsea’s spending in those years is pretty much just a rounding error. The UEFA charges are already a wash because they can only look back over 3 years.
Everton’s case is cut and dry, they repeatedly failed FFP. Man City’s financial doping is also in similar figures.
Most of Chelsea’s big money doping happened long before FFP was even implemented properly.
If there is some kind of punishment I wonder if Chelsea will get a more lenient sentence for self reporting and because the regime has changed.
If they did know some kind of punishment was incoming, the focus on youth and long contracts may actually be a shrewd move.
Not sure that spunking as much as they have done can ever be called shrewd but if they suspected a transfer ban or relegation the rapid spending doesn’t seem quite as batshit insane with that context
Reporting it might lessen some aspects but they are still benefitting now from investments made in players when they breached FFP. Just like City, you build a team with money you don’t have and then profit from sales to further reinvest. Chelsea made alot of money from youth products sold for good money.
I would expect the same example as Everton, points deductions for each year they broke it. 6 points per breach. They might remove the points deductions for the amount of the breach or maybe not fining them.
Youth products are irrelevant to the financial irregularities being investigated though.
Iirc, a lot of it is under the table payments to agents for established players, like Eden, to ensure the deal gets past the finish line.
Then you go down the granular levels and start counting if the money even actually dented FFP for those years. The Guardian article indicated off-the books payments of ‘tens of millions’ over a decade… Which considering Chelsea’s spending in those years is pretty much just a rounding error. The UEFA charges are already a wash because they can only look back over 3 years.
Everton’s case is cut and dry, they repeatedly failed FFP. Man City’s financial doping is also in similar figures.
Most of Chelsea’s big money doping happened long before FFP was even implemented properly.