Financial Fair Play investigation

[The Nature Boy]

Would be more worrying if it wasnt dropped last thing Friday afternoon, btw

Why?

 

[Goodisongang]

Nothing will happen, certainly not this season anyway.

 

[Connor]

Why?

Late Friday afternoon news is usually a loooooool

Typically the day/time to bury it for later

 

[The binman chronicles]

Please ban us from signing Maupay again.

The punishment will be to play him in every game.

 

[MikeH72]

MOSHIRI OUT

 

[davek]

If found guilty, there is a real possibility of a sporting penalty. Most likely a points deduction.
the there is the issue of other teams. If a club gets relegated when the FFP rules have been broken, they could take legal action for losses… see the Sheffield united West Ham case.
there’s a lot to be worried about.

lol lol lol

No mate. Just no.

The biggest threat would be a transfer embargo.

IIRC thiugh we cant sell players under that cloud, so we keep all our current players.

 

[MikeH72]

lol lol lol

No mate. Just no.

The biggest threat would be a transfer embargo. And I dont particulalry see that as something that'll stop us signing what we need.

You can’t sign free transfers or loans under a transfer embargo Dave.

 

[dublinbluenose]

Being an Evertonian is punishment enough FFS

 

[AdamEFC]

FFP is and always has been a farce to maintain the status quo. It needs binning yesterday.

As per Transfermarkt, over the last 5 years, we've a net loss of -£141m, more or less. Arsenal have -£549m, Chelsea -£740m, and United -£611m. Other sites show differing figures but the point remains they've all posted losses much, much greater than ours.

That -£141m includes the last 2 years where we've been in profit too by the way, any sane person would be asking why on earth would they seek to punish us now? Just about staved off relegation last year and in the mix yet again. Hard to view it is as anything other than nefarious.

Isn’t that just transfers though? As a club they make much more money than us.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Well least we had all the good times and trophies to show for it..

 

[davek]

City have loads of different charges agasint them. Loads.

We'll have more than one. Its come under the broad category of W.3.4

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

Isn’t that just transfers though? As a club they make much more money than us.

That's the point though. They're already well established and have big commercial deals; FFP ensures it stays that way. Who's breaking through the glass ceiling and securing massive commercial deals when they're spending about a fifth of what the "big clubs" are?

 

[davek]

You can’t sign free transfers or loans under a transfer embargo Dave.

Is the EPL different then? I seen a report a week or so back that Sheff Utd under an embargo can.

Also, you cant sell players or loan them out either. That's what happened to Chelsea.

 

[Zeitgeist]

 

[chrismpw]

Nothing will happen, certainly not this season anyway.

So something might scupper our title push next season ffs.