If the major sponsor was paying a realistic amount for sponsorship and naming rights then we could have just replaced it. We couldn't because Usmanov an absolute monster was propping us up. Many of us warned about it because it was an accident waiting to happen. The posters now whining like a bitch about it are the same ones who looked the other way.
We dismissed Siggurddson immediately and were not paying his wages. The £10m was what we could have sued him for because we lost his transfer value. We can still sue him. So it is absolute nonsense to claim it is mitigation.
We did not dismiss Siggurdson immediately, will you stop repeating this lie ? He was put on indefinite suspension until his contract ran out, now as that happens he is still under contract so we are bound to pay him by law. You're complaining in another post about posters lashing out against you, now other posters who don't agree with you are " whinning like a bitch" isn't that lashing out ? Or is that to you reasoned discussion. Didn't hear many fans complaining when Moshiri took us over but you are wiser after the event..whoopee. Mitigation is when there are other things happening that effect you that are out of you're control, agreed ? Was Covid in our control ? Was Putin crazed attack on Ukraine in our control ? We're the allegation against Sigurdsson under our control ? Each of them things mitigated our circumstances, Covid no fans, the war took away our main sponsor, you could argue no other club suffered that much loss because of that war. Sigurdsson, again couldn't play him, couldn't sell him had by law to pay his wages. We were £19.5m over in three years, we argued due to the circumstances it was £7m, the Commision mostly ignored our pleas and we were given a totally excessive punishment that way outweighed the crime. That will be the basis of our appeal. You also say off hand why didn't we just replace our sponsorship, if it was that easy I'm sure they would have, remember only the big clubs find gaining massive sponsors and commercial deals easy, that's why we have for because it suits them and it keeps them winning and the divide ever widening. There you go I've tried explaining and I'm not always right, but there are a few reasons why Everton fans will probably never agree with you.
