• mcmanus2099@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Honestly I think it’s still overly harsh considering the circumstances. It’d be one thing if they were just flaunting the rules.

    But they were right, they were trying to declare overspend as COVID allowance. They fiddled the books to write it off and tried to hide the breach.

    But they got fucked by Covid like everybody else but then right as they were recovering there lost all investment from Usmanov due to the Russia Ukraine conflict.

    The Ukraine war isn’t a factor, they got fucked by COVID like everyone else but declared far higher COVID costs for no reason. They used COVID write offs to remove some of the bad debt from all those years of bad investments.

    They did breach FFP, this happens to championship clubs all the time, we can’t allow different rules because it’s the Premier League.

    And it won’t be a 10 point deduction, the sentence always gets halved on appeal, it will end up a 5 point deduction.

    • Chewitt321@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      Yup, as a Wolves fan who are having an ok but limited season due in part to a quietish summer window because of FFP allowances, Everton just avoiding that whole need to be careful cos they didn’t feel like it isn’t really on.

      • maxefc@alien.topB
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        1 year ago

        Look at the net spend for the last 5 years. We have spent no money on players compared to you lot

    • Kevgongiveit2ya@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      The USM naming rights to the training ground was worth 30m alone and was ended due to the Ukrainian war. That right there was enough to put us under the 105m limit.