• mohankohan@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    If club are found to have breached spending rules in next set of accounts, action will be taken by end of May under changes brought in to speed up process

    Ouch, that’s a deadly one-two punch.

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      1 year ago

      lol at the EPL eyeing the relegation line and docking whatever points it takes to send them down,

    • cherlin@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      They can fuck over everton immediately, but man city may not see anything for 2+ years? Wtf is this?

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          The trick is to be massively corrupt in a way that takes fucking forever to bring to trial. To get super advanced, you need to be under active indictments in four different cities under four completely different categories of law.

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      I mean if you already were being investigated and you broke the same rules again you’re a fucking dumbass beyond measure.

      Shitty situation for the fans though

      • RaspberryBirdCat@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        Given that the accounts are over a three year period it’s more like being penalized twice for screwing up the same year.

      • zzonked7@alien.topB
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        It’s not as clear cut as that because it’s not as simple as having budget of £105m and spending £124.5m, though that’s the final tally. They lost far more than £124.5m over 3 seasons, they lost closer to £370m but were allowed to write some of it off per the rules.

        My understanding is that their argument is twofold, 1) They think they should have been able to write off more of the losses and 2) There were good reasons that they had reduced income that tipped them over (covid, no transfer fee for Sigurdsson and unexpectedly poor results in the league).

        The difficulty is a team can invest with an expectation that it will return better results and money, but football is unpredictable and if it doesn’t work out then you can get punished like this. You could definitely argue they acted recklessly and took an unacceptable risk, but it’s not just outright stupidity.

        It’s a 3 year rolling loss tally, if they get punished again then it’s likely partly the same mistake as last time, not a fresh one.

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      Im struggling to think how exactly we’d have fucked up the finances since when we got done

      We’ve not really spent any money on transfers without selling players and our wages have drastically dropped

      Sounds abit clickbaity to me tbh

      • SpeechesToScreeches@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        Yeah it’s not a ‘we suspect they might have broken the rules again so will be punished again’, just a ‘Everton still have to play by the same rules despite already being punished for breaking them before’, it’s a non story

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    Unlikely considering they sold Gordon and so have made a transfer profit the last couple of seasons.

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    I know it’s not just down to spending on players but we’ve literally had to sell to buy these last few years and have one of the lowest net spends in the league.

    I just don’t see how we’re the only team to break the rules

  • jeevesyboi@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    All clubs have to submit their accounts by the end of December. If they are again over the loss threshold, Everton will receive another punishment. It was confirmed that a new breach of the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules should be dealt with by the end of May.

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    1 year ago

    Tbh the future for PL clubs lie with very rich and politically Strong owners who can beat the system with money/lawyers/corruption.

    Any club not doing this will eventually end up being either a lower mid table club who is in risk of relegation in most seasons or will end up getting relegated to lower leagues.

  • GhostRiders@alien.topB
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    People need to stop saying “What about Man City or Chelsea” because your just making yourselves look stupid.

    Everton are guilty of breaching FFP, end off of discussion.

    They admitted to the Independent Commission that they were guilty of breaching FFP, Everton were trying to justify why they did and the Commission judged they were full of shite and gave them a 10 point penalty.

    This case hasn’t just happened, it’s been going for years.

    The PL were working with Everton to help them avoid breaching FFP yet Everton still went ahead and over spent.

    As for Chelsea and City, their cases are in orders of magnitude more complex.

    Man City have denied any wrong doing and are using their virtually unlimited funds to throw lawyers to contest every single aspect of the PL case against them.