6 + 2 Point Deductions


The Premier League notes today’s judgment in the European Court of Justice case involving the "European Superleague Company", FIFA and UEFA. This is a significant ruling and we will now fully examine its implications for the game.

The ruling does not endorse the so-called "European Super League" and the Premier League continues to reject any such concept. Supporters are of vital importance to the game and they have time and again made clear their opposition to a "breakaway" competition that severs the link between domestic and European football.

The Premier League reiterates its commitment to the clear principles of open competition that underpin the success of domestic and international club competitions.

Football thrives on the competitiveness created by promotion and relegation, the annual merit-based qualification from domestic leagues and cups to international club competitions and the longstanding rivalries and rituals that come with weekends being reserved for domestic football.

These principles are enshrined in the Premier League Owners’ Charter, introduced in June 2022, which aims to improve the collective strength and competitiveness of the League in the best interests of the wider game.

Since 2021, the Premier League, alongside other football bodies, has also strengthened its rules and governance in this area.

The Premier League will continue to engage in an open and constructive dialogue, with all relevant football stakeholders, on how best to protect and enhance the complementary balance of domestic and international club football.

lol
 

Signed up on the 8th May 2019, the same day Big Red beat Barcelona 4-0 in the Champions League semi final.

Quoted by a Kopite Twitter account who also spends his entire life talking about Everton’s finances. And also appears to be a member of this forum seeing as he has access to the Everton forum.

Eerily similar posting style to former member @Baileyjon who was banned and outed as a kopite. Constant references to “tin foil hats” and “conspiracies”.

Conclusion: definite blue.
My god, you are actually serious about this, aren't you?

I don't want to in any way belittle mental health issues and I mean this in the nicest possible way. You need help my friend.

You have spent weeks middle-fingering my posts. You have sent me dozens of abusive PM's and now you are searching the internet desperately trying to link me to someone else. Not being funny enough is enough. You are linking random things and trying to pretend you have found a smoking gun and then you wonder why multiple people call you a conspiracist.

Please walk away from the keyboard and reflect on what you are doing.
 

Carragher is full of crap. About as unbiased as he is educated.

Bear in mind some of Klopp's touchline behaviour, and the Suarez/Evra incident and then read these quotes...

“I think it’s bubbling [the issue of manager behaviour] and I think it does need stamping down. Maybe a couple of managers, Jürgen Klopp being one, might be the ones who get the full force of it – maybe Arteta.

“I think some of the bookings he’s (Arteta) got – the over celebrating, the odd thing where you think, ‘Come on, there’s no need for that’. But I do think he shouldn’t have got away with – once he’d been charged with what he said after Newcastle, and the defence was there was a translation difference between what you’d say in Spain about something was a disgrace, it means something different in Spain. That was nonsense.

Just trying to find a quote of him begging for 'fans' not to be punished for the super league thing now...
 
this bit is the takeaway

remier League chief executive Richard Masters needed to be "a lot clearer and a lot more honest" in his response to Everton's charges, according to Fan Advisory Board secretary Julie Clarke.

The Toffees, alongside Nottingham Forest, were charged with alleged breaches of the league's profit and sustainability regulations in their accounts for 2022-23.

The club are already in the process of appealing against a 10-point deduction from a previous charge.

Masters was questioned on Tuesday at a Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee hearing about the rules.

Speaking on BBC Radio Merseyside's Total Sport programme, Clarke said: "He did not seem to be right across the brief at all.

"A lot of the questions he was asked he didn't know the answers for. Then to go on about us and Nottingham Forest being small clubs? Somebody in his position should have been briefed before he went in front of the committee on the history of the clubs he was going to be asked about.

"When he says this is the first time a club has been charged in this specific way, what specific way? Because we don't know this way that you are talking about because you haven't told anyone or the clubs and you couldn't tell the select committee what the process is for how your commission arrived at this decision.

"We needed him to be a lot clearer and a lot more honest."

Under new rules designed to speed up the reporting process and ensure any penalties were imposed during a season when the alleged transgression took place, clubs had to submit their accounts for 2022-23 by 31 December.

"An organisation cannot come in and make rules as it goes along and worse still, penalise another organisation without saying how you have arrived at that," Clarke added. "The second lot seems to have certainly overlapped with the first lot, but more to the point, how have they prioritised their time in the investigations?

"They have other clubs that they are investigating and yet saw fit to put all that on hold to go and reinvestigate a club they have already investigated and sanctioned? It makes no sense. It looks like victimisation."
 

He’s since been reminded which side his bread is buttered and not to go against his employers biggest cash cow.

There’s been a shift in narrative from the media towards this.

Even the ones who were saying “yes they were guilty, but the punishment was unheard of” are now quiet.

Lots are bizarrely trying to make out that the 10 point deduction did us a favour as we won a couple of games.
 
Even so we couldn’t and can’t afford it.
We could afford it and if we'd managed our finances correctly we'd still have been able to afford it.£400 million at a reasonable rate of interest over a 20 year period could have been paid for with the increased income from the new stadium.
 

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