Everton Thread - 2023/24

[Semper aggressus]

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I think that this message needs sharing with a wider audience.

Thanks. I don‘t have twitter but if anyone wants to do the honours go for it!

 

[Mr Fraser]

Perhaps I am taking conspiracy theories too far. American owners want a closed shop, 1 franchise per city / region, and probably 2 in London

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Not if they get to your level, the level they want. 12 points to you now may mean a struggle for the title but you would still piss the CL spots.

Cant see them making CL as it stands. It will take them 5 or 6 years to get to where you are due to the restraints. All the while, yourselves, Arsenal, Spurs etc can still spend on quality players too. So they will always be playing catch up really if the follow the rules.

If Newcastle spent a billion quid, they’d fail FFP for 3 years, unless they somehow made a £900m profit the next year.

 

[BlueLou82]

If Newcastle spent a billion quid, they’d fail FFP for 3 years, unless they somehow made a £900m profit the next year.

Could take the max 12 point deduction each year. But you would think that billion would turn them into a world class team and the 12 points would make a small dent in their season.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Could take the max 12 point deduction each year. But you would think that billion would turn them into a world class team and the 12 points would make a small dent in their season.

The amount of money you spend isn’t necessarily directly proportional to how good your team is. You should know this by watching your team ;-)

If that isn’t a good enough example, there’s a team that claims to share the same city as us that have spent a ton with nothing to show for it.

God bless Ed Woodward.

 

[eyalluvitt]

I reckon it will be (should be) halved on appeal with the rest suspended.
I remember Spurs getting 12 point deduction in the 90s. So all this ‘record’ 10 points is nonsense.

I’m sure it will be, it’s just media hyperbole, remember they danced on our grave when we got a 2 year CL ban yet barely a murmur when it was laughed out of court/overturned on appeal

 

[ninjamonkey]

Could the threat of being sued by every club that fancies jumping on the bandwagon actually end up working in Evertons favour here?

The premier league are as bent as they come but they don't want this scenario where there's a minimum half a dozen sides suing another for hundreds of millions, it's awful for them on every level but this will absolutely happen and although it will be dragged out for as long as possible they'll stand a good of winning too.

The only way the premier league can prevent this now is if they accept evertons appeal and reduce punishment to a fine and maybe a suspended points deduction or conveniently change it to a single point deduction so that it wouldn't have impacted the final table had it been applied last season.

I've no doubts everton will be fine despite the points deduction in terms of survival this season but being sued for what could end up being half a billion would just destroy them for the next decade if not longer and leave them in a much worse situation than had they just been relegated in the first place.

 

[BlueLou82]

The amount of money you spend isn’t necessarily directly proportional to how good your team is. You should know this by watching your team ;-)

If that isn’t a good enough example, there’s a team that claims to share the same city as us that have spent a ton with nothing to show for it.

God bless Ed Woodward.

Oh I know, trust me!!

But its worth the risk imo. It depends on if they are willing to be patient as there are too many teams way ahead of them and can stay that way. They need a big push.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Oh I know, trust me!!

But its worth the risk imo. It depends on if they are willing to be patient as there are too many teams way ahead of them and can stay that way. They need a big push.

Let’s see how Chelsea navigate and what punishment they might get. That might be more relevant to Newcastle.

 

[Tracking back]

Football survived without ffp for decades. It's been brought in 100% to protect certain clubs

It's not doing a very good job of it.

Rags = finished

Dippers = one hit wonders (prem title)

Tarquins = legends in their own lunch time