PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[Bluearmy]

The deduction is immediate no?
Id rather lose 10 now with 20 games to go then be thrown into a relegation battle in the last 5.

Is the right answer

 

[Dribble]

It's a disgraceful policy from the PL, not that we should be surprised, justice doesn't feature highly in their priorities.

**BREAKING NEWS**

The Premier League are claiming the 10 point deduction is because Everton were £19.5m over the allowed profit & sustainability limit over a three year rolling period.

Everton are claiming they were only £9.5m over the limit, so the 10 point reduction is unfair & disproportionate.

Everton have just confirmed that the majority of these losses came about because of COVID, & they thought the PL were giving EVERY team dispensations to get through the pandemic!

The more I hear of this, the more it sounds like a knee-jerk reaction from the PL in response to the confirmation of an independent regulator for football.

A 10 point reduction for at worst being £20m over the FFP limit during the worst global pandemic in over 100 years, sounds plainly ridiculous.

The PL aren't looking after their members here, they're fighting for regulatory survival & control over their cash cow, so have tried to smash a peanut with a sledgehammer to prove an independent regulator is unnecessary.

 

[johnnytapia]

I still find it weird that in a 4 year investigation they’ve not bothered questioning or even speaking to him.

He’s busy.

 

[citizen_maine]

Perhaps true, but in any event, the cases of other clubs are immaterial to their own. It suggests to me that, ludicrous though the rules are, they've knowingly broken them and are bang to rights.

When you think about it, if City were to be exonerated before Everton's appeal is heard, I cannot imagine any lawyer worth his salt submitting in their appeal bundle "City got off, so this is precedent for us receiving a lighter punishment".

I suspect that they believe that a 10 point deduction for a £20m breach is excessive punishment. So, if say Chelsea (or anyone else) breached by a similar amount they wouldn't expect them to get zero points deduction and a small fine

 

[John Wayne]

If we're cleared then this is good news for us, as it shows that penalties will be served if there is wrongdoing so no one can claim we've just argued our way out of it.

If we're cleared then we'll have bribed our way out of it. Why bribe the Premier League not to bring charges in the first place when you can just let them bring charges, spend a truckload of money on lawyers and bribe the independent panel instead?

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Hiring the best lawyers? Several media took that as evidence that we were guilty. Henry Winter in The Times argued that we did that to kick the UEFA charges into the long grass and now maintains that our lawyers are there just to cause delay. YCNMIU.

Winters a clown who claims he's a Stockport when it suits

 

[paulchapo]

Fuck me all the thick imbeciles are as predicted crawling out of the woodwork.

 

[tolmie's hairdoo]

City and Everton's cases couldn't be more different, both in terms of the charge which Everton admitted to, and the speed of a verdict.

Rivals want to associate the two, but they are far removed.

If anything, I am even more hopeful now that the Premier League will be cut off at the knees before we ever get to the hearing.

 

[John Wayne]

Fuck me all the thick imbeciles are as predicted crawling out of the woodwork.

No use of commas and a question mark. Yep. Thick as fuck.

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Fucking jug eared twat.

he's a c*nt. Quiet on his own teams breaching though