Everton

[alfinyalcabo]

, in brief:

Season 1: Spend more than the rules allow to stay up at the expense of Club X, who are playing by the rules.
Season 2: again spend more than the rules allow, this time to purchase players from the club X (such as Dwight McNeil), at reduced rate as their players wish to stay in the tope tier.
Season 3: Upon club X's return to the division, utilise your squad (bolstered by years of financial rule breaking) to beat them home and away, gaining the six points required to negate the punishment from all previous rule breaking.

I give you the English Premier League - Where cheats prosper.

[norfolk white]

Disgraceful, just waiting for Man City to get off Scott free….who said cheats never prosper….obviously this doesn’t apply to the premier league, and Leeds are desperate to get there….oh dear.

[Ozwhites]

I'm guessing that due to their penalty being reduced, the chances of compensation for relegated clubs including Leeds now diminishes also? Not that there were high hopes anyway given the past! 🙄

[Rev72]

Disgusting but not surprised.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

Another penalty to be imposed though

[spaldy]

You don't have to be an accountant to figure out that citeh's books don't balance. Huge money involved in running an operation as successful as theirs and they have huge money behind them but I believe the way the FFP rules work you still have to balance them without just taking money from the owner. May be mistaken on that.

If that's correct then Everton are pikers compared to Citeh. Of course, neither will really be punished. Nothing will happen to Citeh and so what if Everton is docked 6 points. They aren't good enough for Europe but they also aren't going to be relegated. All this likely means is that we'll not be able to sell Harrison to them and we'll lose millions selling to the next buyer.

[WTF11]

You don't have to be an accountant to figure out that citeh's books don't balance. Huge money involved in running an operation as successful as theirs and they have huge money behind them but I believe the way the FFP rules work you still have to balance them without just taking money from the owner. May be mistaken on that.

If that's correct then Everton are pikers compared to Citeh. Of course, neither will really be punished. Nothing will happen to Citeh and so what if Everton is docked 6 points. They aren't good enough for Europe but they also aren't going to be relegated. All this likely means is that we'll not be able to sell Harrison to them and we'll lose millions selling to the next buyer.

Agree with all that, but maybe not selling Harrison, particularly should we be promoted, would be no bad thing?