Everton don’t deny that they broke the P&S rule. They admit pretty much at the start of the Independent Commission document - the question is about the severity of the breach and any mitigating factors for the punishment - but they aren’t denying that they did it at any point

Everton had 1 P&S breach, City have 3. City were the first to have the charge brought against them, Everton were second, but because the Everton case is smaller (in amount of charges and the fact they didn’t deny it, unlike City) it was quick to get to a judgement

The mad bit about the City one is that the timetable is secret. Given the severity of the charges, the timing of any potential punishment will make it an absolute mess

Let’s say they get kicked out of the PL at the start of September. Are they supposed to play out a season that means nothing? Are the EFL supposed to accept them in?

Let’s say they get kicked out 31st of May. They then start playing in a lower tier. What happens if they successfully appeal? Are they supposed to get reinstated into the PL? At what point?

No matter what, if there are punishments held against City, it’s going to become a mess because they’re going to fight it tooth and nail and the timetable and severity make it almost impossible to do cleanly

Yep basically everyone except Brentford and Nottingham Forest

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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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

I mean, the writing is surely on the wall for City.

The European ban for 2 years back in 2020 was only overturned on appeal at the CAS for being time barred.

The PL has that exact same set of facts plus more without the time bar to save City this time

Revisionist take on that Arsenal squad - Ozil was still near the height of his powers when Emery took charge. He also couldn’t handle the divas of our dressing room of the time

We should have finished 4th that year - we absolutely fell apart at the end

I still stand by that if Willian wasn’t signed, Pepe gets a longer run in the team and so performs better

But also this opened up the pathway for Saka at RW, and I’d say that was worth the £72m spent on Pepe