despite being owned by a state with which the UK has many interests economically will it be one of the cases that might go unpunished?

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    they just said in the Everton independent commission document that fines aren’t sufficient when the owners are wealthy - punishment will be sporting for infringements by rich clubs

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      Money is unlimited when it comes to the saudis. They won’t give a shit about a £100m fine and they’ll continue business as usual.

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      How do they determine who’s rich and who’s not when every owner of a Premier League club is rich?

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      Ah, but everton is actually a different club. They wouldn’t do anything to hurt their favorite little golden child. If that were the case they would have done it years ago

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        They wouldn’t do anything to hurt their favorite little golden child

        lol wat. Then why charge City at all after they were wholly exonerated by CAS? The charges have already done plenty of damage because your average know-nothing red club fan presumes guilt from the outset which the media happily tap into.

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        It’s all about pressure from both sides. Can the public threaten the sanctity of the money-making machine enough, or is a sovereign ruler too imposing? The two sides may discuss where the threshold is… at some point, I’d guess, it’s just worth accepting a real hit.

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        Surely they just wouldn’t press charges in the first place then ? I don’t get this logic the FA are doing years of investigation when that have no intention of following up ?

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          Wait, it says a loss up to to 15 mil is largely forgiven but we only lost 4.5 Mill more and lose 10 points?😂

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            Losses up to £105m over three years are forgiven (as long as you haven’t been in the championship and there is owner funding)

            The amounts you’re seeing are the amounts over that threshold - the PL says you’re roughly £20m over it, Everton says they’re just under £10m over it

            But that’s £115m - £135m losses over three years

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              Yeah my mistake I misread it. We had losses of 124.5 mil. 20 mil extra is nothing considering how much players cost nowadays.