Everton

[cherrypie7]

Created by the poor and stolen by the rich billy.

Glad I saw it when it was a joy to play the game and watch it...albeit quite a few years ago.

Obviously still a joy to watch it , especially when the Leeds win

I dont quite enjoy watching football as much as when I was younger. One reason is VAR, especially for soft penalty and miniscule offside decisions. Another reason is the massive gulf in money (and purchased talent) between the top 7 or 8 premier league clubs and everyone else. There has always been a group of dominant clubs in English football but those groups changed in composition depending on the players and manager(s) not money. I feel the top clubs are where they are because of the wealth of owners. There are wealthy owners of course whose clubs don't/didnt hoover up the best talent (at obscene prices) available all the time, e.g. Leicester City and spurs. Leicester is in the Championship and I wasn't born when spurs last won the 1st division.

[BelfastAndy]

[Ozwhites]

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[alfinyalcabo]

Everton fans need to stop crying about it they have been let off and are in a good position to get out of the bottom 3 but it does beggar the question , what about Man City and the 115 FFP charges the FA are investigating?

Do you really think the Premier league are going to deduct points from their cash cows Citeh and Chelski Rev?

In theory they should both be demoted to Div 2 immediately.

[cherrypie7]

Do you really think the Premier league are going to deduct points from their cash cows Citeh and Chelski Rev?

In theory they should both be demoted to Div 2 immediately.

Believe it or not, I think that Man City will be deducted 10 points, now that the Everton precedent has been set. I think the deduction will be applied before start of next season. No idea that Chelsea was involved in any wrong doing, so can't comment.

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

What is allowed and over what period is quite nuanced and there are lots of complexities to other expenditure that counts and doesn’t.

As such, I suspect the cases will drag on for a while and whatever happens they are bound to be appealed.

[Tichi1]

They should be relegated, due to their cheating of the system Burnley and Leeds were relegated and lost millions in revenue as a result.

Burnley and Leicester are the teams that lost out, we didn't - we came second bottom last year and fourth bottom the year before and 9th the year before that - so we didn't go down in their place.
Makes no difference the three that went up will be going straight back down, and Everton will have the points halved to 5 on appeal

[alfinyalcabo]

Thanks for that Tichi. 😁

[Monaco_Totty]

What is allowed and over what period is quite nuanced and there are lots of complexities to other expenditure that counts and doesn’t.

As such, I suspect the cases will drag on for a while and whatever happens they are bound to be appealed.

Cannot see it progressing "swiftly" with several clubs lawyers litigating.

That fractious Carlos Tevez "affair" ended after 2 long years of expensive litigation with a final settlement of £20 million eventually agreed out of court by the Blades.

That agreement concluded a legal tussle that had been ongoing since Sheff Utd were relegated in season 2007 after those Tevez's goals helped keep West Ham up & despite the fact that the Hammers were "earlier fined" by the PL for breaking rules on third-party player ownership at that time.

It was reported that West Ham had agreed to pay Sheff Utd £15m over 5 years with an "extra bond" of £5m payable in the event of Hammers being sold within a certain time frame too.

Been reading Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson (then Hammers owner) was under pressure to sell the club as a result of the collapse of his biz in Iceland's banking collapse at that time & a year later flogged it to the perv-brothers who then got West Ham relegated !

So yeah, justice in time hopefully against Everton too but it'll take a while to see any cash for those clubs interested parties seeking it, for sure.

Liverpool Echo attacking Man City today with a full list of FFP charges and their possible punishment as Liverpool FC await Man City verdict. 😅
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/spor...eadmore-target

[ImTopMan]

Even if Neverton were docked all their points last season Leeds still would've gone down.

You went down because you were 5hit. Not because of anything Neverton did.

What next, if City and Chelsea are found guilty will you try to sue them for taking points off your truly abysmal side last season?

You've spent the majority of the last 40 years outside the top flight so should be used to being down there.