PL charge City for alleged breaches of financial rules

[JULES]

Can't

You're having a shocker tonight....

I give up

 

[abu13]

So, if I am understanding this correctly Everton are docked 10 points for failing FFP by £20+ million but a team can be £1 billion in debt and thats all fine an dandy?

 

[Sheikh rattle and roll]

Juventus got round that problem by keeping the big stars contracts and loaning them to other clubs.

I guess it depends on age and profile of the player etc
But it would be a hard slog
Our biggest challenger is now in the court room
That’s the only way the blue juggernaut is halted

 

[Sheikh rattle and roll]

So, if I am understanding this correctly Everton are docked 10 points for failing FFP by £20+ million but a team can be £1 billion in debt and thats all fine an dandy?

Exactly-madness

 

[Invisible Man's Bandage]

Finally, finally....an in-depth look at what Everton's defence was and how ridiculous it became. It's an article on the Telegraph site, won't link as you need a subscription, and it shows that Everton had lots of assistance from the PL for a long period to ensure that they didn't fail. They ignored it. They then came up with increasingly bizarre explanations after admitting they had.

One of the most outlandish ones, it actually defies credulity, is that they should be allowed 10 mill off because they didn't sue a player who had been investigated for child sex offences. Although never charged or named he is no longer at the club but their case was that if they sued him it would affect his mental health. The panel decided they would never have received that money under any circumstances.

 

[Sheikh rattle and roll]

Absolute worst scenario.
We get found guilty as hell.
We get relegated,.......................................................................................................... and then bounce straight back up and win everything in sight again and boil gallons more piss.

Not a chance of that happening
There would be a mass exodus although we would come straight back

 

[decmancity]

Finally, finally....an in-depth look at what Everton's defence was and how ridiculous it became. It's an article on the Telegraph site, won't link as you need a subscription, and it shows that Everton had lots of assistance from the PL for a long period to ensure that they didn't fail. They ignored it. They then came up with increasingly bizarre explanations after admitting they had.

One look at that the players they have bought in the past decade would tell you just how that club is run. They havent a clue.

 

[Sheikh rattle and roll]

The problem with all this is that even if we are exonerated
we are already tarnished and have suffered massive damage to our reputation

 

[Len Rum]

Personally I think that's not the best way to frame it from Stefan. I think it's completely excessive to deduct 10 points from Everton and I would expect it will be mitigated on appeal. But even if it isn't, they failed the PL's FFP. That's binary; you either pass, if your aggregate losses over a 3-year period are £105m or less, or if they're £106m or more, you fail.

Even if City were to be found to have breached all 115 instances, that still doesn't mean we'd have failed FFP, certainly not given the likely amounts involved. And there's very little that goes past 2015 it would seem, certainly only up to 2018 at the latest.

I reckon there's no more than £20m a year involved in the disputed payments. Thats not anywhere near deserving of relegation.

Being devil's advocate here.
Everton have been deducted 10 points for a one off overspend of 20M over three years.
If as you say 20M A YEAR is our disputed payments then over three years that's 60M, way in excess of Everton!
Over more years ( the investigation covers eight) then the situation gets even worse.

 

[Sheikh rattle and roll]

Shame a few of those mentioned voted for it a few years ago….

City.
Newcastle.
Chelsea.
Everton.
Burnley.
Sheffield United.
Wolves.

It's a growing voting block within the Premier League, and the red shirts are fearful of it.

The problem being at least 2 maybe even 3 of those won’t be in the premier league soon