After the Premier League handed out a ten-point deduction to Everton, Martyn Ziegler explains what could happen next for other clubs if they are found guilty of breaking rules
Youth products are irrelevant to the financial irregularities being investigated though.
Iirc, a lot of it is under the table payments to agents for established players, like Eden, to ensure the deal gets past the finish line.
Then you go down the granular levels and start counting if the money even actually dented FFP for those years. The Guardian article indicated off-the books payments of ‘tens of millions’ over a decade… Which considering Chelsea’s spending in those years is pretty much just a rounding error. The UEFA charges are already a wash because they can only look back over 3 years.
Everton’s case is cut and dry, they repeatedly failed FFP. Man City’s financial doping is also in similar figures.
Most of Chelsea’s big money doping happened long before FFP was even implemented properly.
Youth products are irrelevant to the financial irregularities being investigated though.
Iirc, a lot of it is under the table payments to agents for established players, like Eden, to ensure the deal gets past the finish line.
Then you go down the granular levels and start counting if the money even actually dented FFP for those years. The Guardian article indicated off-the books payments of ‘tens of millions’ over a decade… Which considering Chelsea’s spending in those years is pretty much just a rounding error. The UEFA charges are already a wash because they can only look back over 3 years.
Everton’s case is cut and dry, they repeatedly failed FFP. Man City’s financial doping is also in similar figures.
Most of Chelsea’s big money doping happened long before FFP was even implemented properly.