6 + 2 Point Deductions

[RD2910]

According to claims first reported by the Times, Leeds and Burnley have asked for clarity over whether Everton’s losses of £371.8m over the past three years break financial fair play rules. The rules allow for maximum losses of £105m over a three-year period and, although they were adjusted to allow clubs to write off losses incurred because of the pandemic, the complainants argue that Everton’s apparent Covid losses are far larger than other clubs’.

In their last accounts, Everton said £170m of their losses had been related to the pandemic. Aston Villa put their figure at £56m and Arsenal said £86m had been lost because of Covid.

In March Everton’s CEO, Denise Barrett-Baxendale, wrote in the club’s annual accounts: “Losses of at least £170m are attributed to the impact on the club of the Covid-19 pandemic, with £103m of that figure coming in the 2020-21 financial year.



But the PL is corrupt lad, dey came 4 us and we did nothing wrong lad.

Not sure how much more clarity they needed, the Premier League agreed the exemptions. Were Everton supposed to have met up with Aston Villa and Arsenal beforehand to agree what they could claim?

 

[mahermi1]

I covered that in my post? The punishment was too harsh and the fact it wasn't applied consistently was ridiculous, but it doesn't change the fact that we did actually break the rules, that's all i'm saying.

Fair enough, but what else I find hard to understand that £105m total over three years has been the total for forever it seems, but transfer fees have risen much higher than what they were at the time they brought that limit in.

 

[mahermi1]

City and Chelsea bend the rules.

We didnt bend the rules, we broke them, we then admitted we broke them.

That doesn't make it alright though does it, it makes it even harder to stomach.

 

[Goat]

Not sure how much more clarity they needed, the Premier League agreed the exemptions. Were Everton supposed to have met up with Aston Villa and Arsenal beforehand to agree what they could claim?

Thats not the point, the point is that the PL "accepted" our quite frankly outrageous claim.

 

[Goat]

That doesn't make it alright though does it, it makes it even harder to stomach.

IF you want somebody to blame, look in the direction of the little Iranian fella.

 

[Goat]

PL : Hello Man City, you have broken the rules, not just once, but 115 times
City : Prove it

PL : Hello Everton, you have broken the rules
Everton : Yeah we did, but it wasnt our fault

 

[mahermi1]

Thats not the point, the point is that the PL "accepted" our quite frankly outrageous claim.

I seem to remember probably wrong that some of our losses were down to losses from building a new football stadium.

 

[RD2910]

Thats not the point, the point is that the PL "accepted" our quite frankly outrageous claim.

You'd know best, presumably?

 

[Goat]

You'd know best, presumably?

Yes mate, I read the report.

Esk does a decent summary here.

Summary of the Premier League Commission hearing, Everton v Premier League, 25-27 March 2024

As with the previous Commission hearing and subsequent Appeal, I have tried to break down the Commission hearing, decision and sanctions of the Commission held on 25-27th March 2024 between the Pre…

theesk.org

I seem to remember probably wrong that some of our losses were down to losses from building a new football stadium.

Some of our loses were due to taking loans out for the Stadium, but then not allocating money into the correct "account".

Basically if we were just a tiny bit competent, nothing would have happened.

 

[Goat]

Everton had loses of around 380m over a 3 year period, the limit is 105m.

The PL accepted our covid story telling and in the end we breached by 16.6m.

 

[Lanolin]

Not sure how much more clarity they needed, the Premier League agreed the exemptions. Were Everton supposed to have met up with Aston Villa and Arsenal beforehand to agree what they could claim?

I assume (ignorantly i mean, I haven't checked this) the suggestion is that we artificially inflated the amount that could be written off, and that we can't actually justify why it is so much higher than everybody else, rather than just that the amount is higher in itself.

 

[Goat]

Anyway, Burnley are 6 fingered little mutants and they can take their few million in compo, but they will still be dog humpers.

 

[Rodebaard]

In terms of opening a can of worms with teams taking each other to court, wasn't this already opened a good while back with the Tevez West Ham thing with Sheffield United? Always thought that was weird and an aknowledgement that the PL didn't do their job properly (hoping WH went down anyway). Really, Sheffield should have been suing the PL rather than West Ham...

 

[micknick]

Don’t worry we’ve got mark Howard KC on it

 

[Tipp blue]

In terms of opening a can of worms with teams taking each other to court, wasn't this already opened a good while back with the Tevez West Ham thing with Sheffield United? Always thought that was weird and an aknowledgement that the PL didn't do their job properly (hoping WH went down anyway). Really, Sheffield should have been suing the PL rather than West Ham...

This was a provable accusation, the goals Tevez scored were documented, in our case nobody can say how many points we gained overspending by 6.5 million a year over 3 years..