Burnley Case

[pedro789]

Moshiri really was the stupidest billionaire the world has ever seen.

 

[Librarian]

Chelsea was not a PSR issue

Their main issue was HMRC as those payments to players and agents were essentially tax avoidance

During the £2.5 billion takeover, the UK Government and Boehly's team put a clause into the sale that withheld £100 million of the purchase price, locking it in a frozen escrow account specifically to cover "historical liabilities."

When HMRC demanded the back taxes, and when the Premier League handed down the £10.75 million fine, the money didn't come out of Chelsea It was sucked directly out of that frozen pot of Abramovich’s money

 

[trueblue84]

Moshiri really was the stupidest billionaire the world has ever seen.

He's a billionaire in the same way I'd be if a russian oligarch gave me 2 billion quid. Without the money, he'd still be an accountant at Deloitte.

 

[BlueStevie35]

Someone needs to remind the six fingered yokels that they got a nice fat parachute payment for going down in 22, which allowed them to win promotion as champions in 23, then another one for going down again in 24, which allowed them to gain promotion again in 25 only for them to be relegated for a 5th time from the PL in May that will land them another parachute payment to go for promotion again next season

 

[Everton1654]

Pay them in pennies

 

[davids]

Burnley go fown 9 times out of 10. Is it really because of us that they went down that season?

They'll claim a knock on effect and sue us for this season too

 

[blulouie]

Chelsea was not a PSR issue

Their main issue was HMRC as those payments to players and agents were essentially tax avoidance

During the £2.5 billion takeover, the UK Government and Boehly's team put a clause into the sale that withheld £100 million of the purchase price, locking it in a frozen escrow account specifically to cover "historical liabilities."

When HMRC demanded the back taxes, and when the Premier League handed down the £10.75 million fine, the money didn't come out of Chelsea It was sucked directly out of that frozen pot of Abramovich’s money

Did they break any rules...no matter who the owner was ?

 

[JimEFC_2]

I'm just lost for words at this.
That season we beat Burnley at Goodison (September) and we lost away (April).

The teams we put out were seemingly drawn at random out of a hat:

 

[Librarian]

He's a billionaire in the same way I'd be if a russian oligarch gave me 2 billion quid. Without the money, he'd still be an accountant at Deloitte.

The Iranian and the Russian are discreetly being relieved of their ‘investment’

 

[MACCA75]

I'm just lost for words at this.
That season we beat Burnley at Goodison (September) and we lost away (April).

The teams we put out were seemingly drawn at random out of a hat:

100% not correct! The formations at least. There is no way Andre Gomes played central defence, or Rondon played central midfield!

Edit - I get it now, they are the players that ended the game, not started it - so looks a bit random as the formation isn’t taken into account.

 

[JimEFC_2]

They'll claim a knock on effect and sue us for this season too

Ha, yes and all that lost CL revenue we cost them

 

[RD2910]

I'm just lost for words at this.
That season we beat Burnley at Goodison (September) and we lost away (April).

The teams we put out were seemingly drawn at random out of a hat:

Townsend's goal, absolute belter.

 

[Chegsy]

I'm just lost for words at this.
That season we beat Burnley at Goodison (September) and we lost away (April).

The teams we put out were seemingly drawn at random out of a hat:

I wasn't seeing a sporting advantage on the pitch that season that's for sure. We were into decline the summer prior to that season spending what little money we thought we had on Gray and bringing in Townsend and Rondon on a free. By January we were selling Digne to bring in Mykolenko and Patterson.

 

[evertony]

Last thought from me. Theyve said our payment of 35m wont count against our financial balancing act for the next period of their stupid rules.

Therefore, we should argue it is not allowed to count as income for Burnley either in their FFP book balancing.

So they can't spend any of it on players or wages or any football business expenses.

In the event we don’t get it overturned and Burnley win £35M, shouldn’t their parachute payment of circa £55M be returned….after all they’ve argued they wouldn’t have been relegated

 

[cantlivewithem]

This is ridiculous. Burnley are arguing that on the balance of probabilities, if the points deduction had been applied in the season that the breach occurred then they would have stayed up. But the points deduction could never have been applied until the following season at the earliest as the financial year for that season does not end until 6 weeks after the season is over

Therefore it is an impossibility for the points deduction to have been applied that season and keep Burnley up, so Burnley's argument is that because something that was impossible did not happen to save Burnley from relegation, Everton have to pay 40 mill in compensation and some idiot on a panel agreed with that

On the balance of probabilities, If you arrest a murderer before he goes murdering people then all of the people he murders would not have got killed. Does that mean that the families of the victims sue the police for not arresting the murderer whilst he was still an innocent person?