Burnley Case

[hallamblue]

This ruling is utter nonsense and will surely be reversed on appeal. The chair should also be banned from adjudicating because that's twice they've shown they are clueless

 

[tommytowne]

It was a clear act of provocation but Evertonians did not let him get headlines to detract from Goodison’s last men’s game.

You've never seen the colour drain from a man's face so quickly when Masters was eyeballed as he was ushered across a tightly pack Goodison Road. A sudden surge towards him and the two minders made me imagine they'd all touched cloth.

 

[Lob]

I thought we were already with them? Sure I saw their name mentioned as being on Everton's side when Burnley won.

They acted in an advisory role for TFG when they set up the holdings company and did all of that refinancing at the start.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

They acted in an advisory role for TFG when they set up the holdings company and did all of that refinancing at the start.

Some bits before that too, from 2020;

Slaughter and May advised Everton Football Club on their Pre-Construction Services Agreement with Laing O’Rourke relating to the Club’s new 52,888 capacity stadium

www.slaughterandmay.com

 

[Bedfordblue]

Surely the strongest grounds for appeal is the original panel agreed there was no sporting advantage?

 

[Lob]

Some bits before that too, from 2020;

Slaughter and May advised Everton Football Club on their Pre-Construction Services Agreement with Laing O’Rourke relating to the Club’s new 52,888 capacity stadium

www.slaughterandmay.com

Yeah we have been getting advice from them for a while like you say which is probably why we were able to hire them full on for this appeal. They are the best in the business at this sort of thing from what i have read.

 

[hallamblue]

Surely the strongest grounds for appeal is the original panel agreed there was no sporting advantage?

The original panel said their ruling meant that clubs could sue us

 

[Bedfordblue]

Slaughter and May are no Saul Goodman & Associates.

 

[MercuryBlue88]

I wonder if we manage to get this overturned, could we sue the independent panel for damages to the Everton brand?

 

[Seathestars]

Surely the strongest grounds for appeal is the original panel agreed there was no sporting advantage?

They said there was a sporting advantage but how much could not be calculated.
But now all of a sudden they have miraculously decided that we had enough advantage to send Burnley down.

 

[JimEFC_2]

So we were a turkey voting for Xmas.

I'd guess talks started when we were pretty much the best team in Europe, so they never would have predicted the Peter Johnson years, and then the Kenwright years

 

[Neiler]

Good hopefully they wont be idiots. Is the argument you mentioned kind of innocent until proven guilty, We had done nothing wrong until after the accounts were submitted and found a breach. I'm not sure i fully understand the argument, are we calming that if we sold a player on say the 25th of June we would have been compliment, But we didn't do that and were found guilty.

Pretty much mate.

The argument is this. We had up until 30th of June to be compliant - so our breach actually took place on the 1st of July. Burnley were relegated in May so technically according to the rules we hadn't breached at the point Burnley were relegated.

The panel decided against that - that we had been in breach all season - but technically that's not what is in the rules. Leicester got off you may remember on the same application of dates according to the rules.

If the panels decision is to be applied to other clubs technically Villa, Newcastle, us, Forest and anyone who had to sell anyone before the "PSR deadline" on June 30th in recent years are in breach of PSR - as they would have been in breach the whole financial year, if you applied the panels decision in our case for the rest of PL.

Take Elliot Anderson - Newcastle sold him to Forest to comply with PSR at a knock down - hes now being sold for £120 mill. If you apply the panels decision to Newcastle in this instance they breached PSR as they weren't compliant the whole year before they sold Anderson.

 

[RD2910]

What I don’t get, and I may have gotten this wrong, is that within the report at the first hearing the Panel acknowledged Everton didn’t gain any sporting advantage- therefore how have they then arrived at this?

We're doing the Dele on loan thing then, right?